Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Kenya
Kenya: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 2,378 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Kenya, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Kenya recorded 2,378 ha for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.2% on the previous year and down 1.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Kenya peaked at 4,871 ha in 2002 and was at its lowest, 1,000 ha, in 1961.
Kenya ranks 28th of 74 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
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 Kenya, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 1,200 ha | +20.0% |
| 1965 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 1,400 ha | +16.7% |
| 1968 | 1,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 1,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 1,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 1,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 1,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 1,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 1,600 ha | +14.3% |
| 1975 | 1,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 1,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 1,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 1,800 ha | +12.5% |
| 1979 | 1,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 2,000 ha | +11.1% |
| 1981 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 1,760 ha | -12.0% |
| 1990 | 1,621 ha | -7.9% |
| 1991 | 1,800 ha | +11.0% |
| 1992 | 1,200 ha | -33.3% |
| 1993 | 2,690 ha | +124.2% |
| 1994 | 3,760 ha | +39.8% |
| 1995 | 3,800 ha | +1.1% |
| 1996 | 2,521 ha | -33.7% |
| 1997 | 2,688 ha | +6.6% |
| 1998 | 1,868 ha | -30.5% |
| 1999 | 2,240 ha | +19.9% |
| 2000 | 2,792 ha | +24.6% |
| 2001 | 1,754 ha | -37.2% |
| 2002 | 4,871 ha | +177.7% |
| 2003 | 2,906 ha | -40.3% |
| 2004 | 2,900 ha | -0.2% |
| 2005 | 2,500 ha | -13.8% |
| 2006 | 3,144 ha | +25.8% |
| 2007 | 1,896 ha | -39.7% |
| 2008 | 2,249 ha | +18.6% |
| 2009 | 2,347 ha | +4.4% |
| 2010 | 2,376 ha | +1.2% |
| 2011 | 2,428 ha | +2.2% |
| 2012 | 2,300 ha | -5.3% |
| 2013 | 2,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 2,411 ha | +4.8% |
| 2015 | 2,379 ha | -1.3% |
| 2016 | 2,418 ha | +1.6% |
| 2017 | 2,431 ha | +0.5% |
| 2018 | 2,427 ha | -0.2% |
| 2019 | 2,431 ha | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 2,427 ha | -0.2% |
| 2021 | 2,408 ha | -0.8% |
| 2022 | 2,388 ha | -0.8% |
| 2023 | 2,383 ha | -0.2% |
| 2024 | 2,378 ha | -0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,200 ha | 1,000 ha | 1,400 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,560 ha | 1,400 ha | 1,800 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,976 ha | 1,760 ha | 2,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,419 ha | 1,200 ha | 3,800 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,736 ha | 1,754 ha | 4,871 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,390 ha | 2,300 ha | 2,431 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,397 ha | 2,378 ha | 2,427 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Kenya?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Kenya was 2,378 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 Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 4,871 ha in 2002.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,000 ha in 1961.
- How does Kenya rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Kenya ranks 28th 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 Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Kenya 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.