Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 13,406 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guinea-Bissau, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guinea-Bissau is 13,406 ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.6% on the previous year and up 0.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guinea-Bissau peaked at 13,406 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 5,000 ha, in 1975.
Guinea-Bissau ranks 10th of 74 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guinea-Bissau, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,500 ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 6,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 6,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 6,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 6,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 6,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 7,000 ha | +7.7% |
| 1969 | 6,500 ha | -7.1% |
| 1970 | 6,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 6,000 ha | -7.7% |
| 1972 | 6,500 ha | +8.3% |
| 1973 | 6,000 ha | -7.7% |
| 1974 | 6,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 5,000 ha | -16.7% |
| 1976 | 5,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 8,000 ha | +60.0% |
| 1978 | 6,500 ha | -18.8% |
| 1979 | 8,000 ha | +23.1% |
| 1980 | 9,000 ha | +12.5% |
| 1981 | 6,500 ha | -27.8% |
| 1982 | 6,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 8,000 ha | +23.1% |
| 1984 | 6,500 ha | -18.8% |
| 1985 | 6,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 7,500 ha | +15.4% |
| 1987 | 8,000 ha | +6.7% |
| 1988 | 8,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 8,200 ha | +2.5% |
| 1990 | 8,400 ha | +2.4% |
| 1991 | 8,600 ha | +2.4% |
| 1992 | 8,800 ha | +2.3% |
| 1993 | 9,000 ha | +2.3% |
| 1994 | 9,200 ha | +2.2% |
| 1995 | 9,400 ha | +2.2% |
| 1996 | 9,600 ha | +2.1% |
| 1997 | 9,800 ha | +2.1% |
| 1998 | 10,000 ha | +2.0% |
| 1999 | 10,500 ha | +5.0% |
| 2000 | 10,556 ha | +0.5% |
| 2001 | 10,616 ha | +0.6% |
| 2002 | 10,755 ha | +1.3% |
| 2003 | 11,000 ha | +2.3% |
| 2004 | 11,233 ha | +2.1% |
| 2005 | 11,871 ha | +5.7% |
| 2006 | 12,000 ha | +1.1% |
| 2007 | 12,500 ha | +4.2% |
| 2008 | 12,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 12,000 ha | -4.0% |
| 2010 | 10,000 ha | -16.7% |
| 2011 | 10,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 11,000 ha | +10.0% |
| 2013 | 12,000 ha | +9.1% |
| 2014 | 13,288 ha | +10.7% |
| 2015 | 13,225 ha | -0.5% |
| 2016 | 12,941 ha | -2.1% |
| 2017 | 12,497 ha | -3.4% |
| 2018 | 12,912 ha | +3.3% |
| 2019 | 12,983 ha | +0.5% |
| 2020 | 13,040 ha | +0.4% |
| 2021 | 13,156 ha | +0.9% |
| 2022 | 13,244 ha | +0.7% |
| 2023 | 13,326 ha | +0.6% |
| 2024 | 13,406 ha | +0.6% |
Guinea-Bissau compared with similar countries
- Guinea-Bissau's 13,406 ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 5,766 ha, 2.3× the median. (14 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guinea-Bissau changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | +60.0% | 5,000 ha | 8,000 ha |
| 1981 | -27.8% | 9,000 ha | 6,500 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,556 ha | 6,500 ha | 7,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,350 ha | 5,000 ha | 8,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,470 ha | 6,500 ha | 9,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,330 ha | 8,400 ha | 10,500 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 11,503 ha | 10,556 ha | 12,500 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 12,085 ha | 10,000 ha | 13,288 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 13,234 ha | 13,040 ha | 13,406 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Guinea-Bissau
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.52 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.4063 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 456.57 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.17 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0005 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5335 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 40.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 40.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 31.5% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2018)
Frequently asked questions
- What is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guinea-Bissau?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guinea-Bissau was 13,406 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Guinea-Bissau?
- The highest recorded value was 13,406 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Guinea-Bissau?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,000 ha in 1975.
- How does Guinea-Bissau rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Guinea-Bissau ranks 10th out of 74 countries with data for 2024.
- Is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. rising or falling in Guinea-Bissau?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Guinea-Bissau data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c., fresh — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.