Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guyana
Guyana: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 2,275 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guyana, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Guyana recorded 2,275 ha for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.1% on the previous year and down 10.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guyana peaked at 6,070 ha in 1962 and was at its lowest, 1,000 ha, in 1988.
Guyana ranks 30th of 74 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guyana, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,070 ha | +21.4% |
| 1963 | 5,075 ha | -16.4% |
| 1964 | 5,908 ha | +16.4% |
| 1965 | 5,949 ha | +0.7% |
| 1966 | 3,677 ha | -38.2% |
| 1967 | 3,059 ha | -16.8% |
| 1968 | 3,217 ha | +5.2% |
| 1969 | 3,478 ha | +8.1% |
| 1970 | 3,696 ha | +6.3% |
| 1971 | 4,119 ha | +11.4% |
| 1972 | 4,168 ha | +1.2% |
| 1973 | 4,326 ha | +3.8% |
| 1974 | 3,400 ha | -21.4% |
| 1975 | 3,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 3,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 3,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 3,200 ha | -5.9% |
| 1979 | 2,700 ha | -15.6% |
| 1980 | 2,000 ha | -25.9% |
| 1981 | 2,450 ha | +22.5% |
| 1982 | 2,900 ha | +18.4% |
| 1983 | 3,500 ha | +20.7% |
| 1984 | 3,600 ha | +2.9% |
| 1985 | 4,500 ha | +25.0% |
| 1986 | 4,300 ha | -4.4% |
| 1987 | 4,400 ha | +2.3% |
| 1988 | 1,000 ha | -77.3% |
| 1989 | 1,100 ha | +10.0% |
| 1990 | 1,000 ha | -9.1% |
| 1991 | 1,300 ha | +30.0% |
| 1992 | 1,285 ha | -1.2% |
| 1993 | 1,200 ha | -6.6% |
| 1994 | 1,300 ha | +8.3% |
| 1995 | 2,000 ha | +53.8% |
| 1996 | 2,138 ha | +6.9% |
| 1997 | 2,163 ha | +1.2% |
| 1998 | 2,254 ha | +4.2% |
| 1999 | 2,344 ha | +4.0% |
| 2000 | 2,434 ha | +3.8% |
| 2001 | 2,525 ha | +3.7% |
| 2002 | 2,651 ha | +5.0% |
| 2003 | 2,519 ha | -5.0% |
| 2004 | 2,290 ha | -9.1% |
| 2005 | 2,328 ha | +1.7% |
| 2006 | 2,367 ha | +1.7% |
| 2007 | 2,407 ha | +1.7% |
| 2008 | 2,445 ha | +1.6% |
| 2009 | 2,483 ha | +1.6% |
| 2010 | 2,520 ha | +1.5% |
| 2011 | 2,556 ha | +1.4% |
| 2012 | 2,600 ha | +1.7% |
| 2013 | 2,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 2,552 ha | -1.8% |
| 2015 | 2,011 ha | -21.2% |
| 2016 | 2,388 ha | +18.7% |
| 2017 | 2,317 ha | -3.0% |
| 2018 | 2,237 ha | -3.5% |
| 2019 | 2,314 ha | +3.4% |
| 2020 | 2,262 ha | -2.2% |
| 2021 | 2,271 ha | +0.4% |
| 2022 | 2,282 ha | +0.5% |
| 2023 | 2,272 ha | -0.4% |
| 2024 | 2,275 ha | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,604 ha | 3,059 ha | 6,070 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,581 ha | 2,700 ha | 4,326 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,975 ha | 1,000 ha | 4,500 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,698 ha | 1,000 ha | 2,344 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,445 ha | 2,290 ha | 2,651 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,410 ha | 2,011 ha | 2,600 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,272 ha | 2,262 ha | 2,282 ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 11.48 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0773 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 2,507 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.5708 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7351 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 7.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 7.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.1% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guyana?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guyana was 2,275 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 Guyana?
- The highest recorded value was 6,070 ha in 1962.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Guyana?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,000 ha in 1988.
- How does Guyana rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Guyana ranks 30th 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 Guyana?
- Over the last ten years it is down 10.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Guyana 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.