Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs): Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 230,754 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) stood at 230,754 ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.2% on the previous year and up 2.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) peaked at 460,486 ha in 1992 and was at its lowest, 126,642 ha, in 1993.
That places Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 5th out of 25 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
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 Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 210,650 ha | — |
| 1962 | 214,450 ha | +1.8% |
| 1963 | 216,950 ha | +1.2% |
| 1964 | 220,650 ha | +1.7% |
| 1965 | 223,050 ha | +1.1% |
| 1966 | 227,650 ha | +2.1% |
| 1967 | 233,350 ha | +2.5% |
| 1968 | 239,200 ha | +2.5% |
| 1969 | 243,900 ha | +2.0% |
| 1970 | 248,400 ha | +1.8% |
| 1971 | 253,700 ha | +2.1% |
| 1972 | 258,700 ha | +2.0% |
| 1973 | 253,150 ha | -2.1% |
| 1974 | 263,700 ha | +4.2% |
| 1975 | 274,050 ha | +3.9% |
| 1976 | 274,550 ha | +0.2% |
| 1977 | 287,550 ha | +4.7% |
| 1978 | 288,200 ha | +0.2% |
| 1979 | 307,594 ha | +6.7% |
| 1980 | 318,900 ha | +3.7% |
| 1981 | 327,500 ha | +2.7% |
| 1982 | 337,800 ha | +3.1% |
| 1983 | 341,350 ha | +1.1% |
| 1984 | 342,600 ha | +0.4% |
| 1985 | 352,720 ha | +3.0% |
| 1986 | 376,150 ha | +6.6% |
| 1987 | 378,035 ha | +0.5% |
| 1988 | 395,625 ha | +4.7% |
| 1989 | 395,915 ha | +0.1% |
| 1990 | 433,064 ha | +9.4% |
| 1991 | 427,778 ha | -1.2% |
| 1992 | 460,486 ha | +7.6% |
| 1993 | 126,642 ha | -72.5% |
| 1994 | 133,045 ha | +5.1% |
| 1995 | 136,444 ha | +2.6% |
| 1996 | 138,700 ha | +1.7% |
| 1997 | 145,585 ha | +5.0% |
| 1998 | 149,925 ha | +3.0% |
| 1999 | 156,663 ha | +4.5% |
| 2000 | 161,928 ha | +3.4% |
| 2001 | 168,234 ha | +3.9% |
| 2002 | 180,454 ha | +7.3% |
| 2003 | 187,019 ha | +3.6% |
| 2004 | 193,729 ha | +3.6% |
| 2005 | 199,729 ha | +3.1% |
| 2006 | 200,113 ha | +0.2% |
| 2007 | 201,957 ha | +0.9% |
| 2008 | 203,715 ha | +0.9% |
| 2009 | 208,080 ha | +2.1% |
| 2010 | 216,428 ha | +4.0% |
| 2011 | 223,157 ha | +3.1% |
| 2012 | 223,435 ha | +0.1% |
| 2013 | 223,143 ha | -0.1% |
| 2014 | 225,353 ha | +1.0% |
| 2015 | 238,352 ha | +5.8% |
| 2016 | 228,387 ha | -4.2% |
| 2017 | 229,076 ha | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 232,407 ha | +1.5% |
| 2019 | 229,326 ha | -1.3% |
| 2020 | 231,910 ha | +1.1% |
| 2021 | 230,797 ha | -0.5% |
| 2022 | 230,038 ha | -0.3% |
| 2023 | 231,191 ha | +0.5% |
| 2024 | 230,754 ha | -0.2% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | -72.5% | 460,486 ha | 126,642 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 225,539 ha | 210,650 ha | 243,900 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 270,959 ha | 248,400 ha | 307,594 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 356,660 ha | 318,900 ha | 395,915 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 230,833 ha | 126,642 ha | 460,486 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 190,496 ha | 161,928 ha | 208,080 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 226,906 ha | 216,428 ha | 238,352 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 230,938 ha | 230,038 ha | 231,910 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
- 2 Indonesia 63,444 ha compare
- 3 Namibia 43,947 ha compare
- 4 Lao People's Democratic Republic 140,130 ha compare
- 4 Peru 39,770 ha compare
- 5 Democratic Republic of the Congo 126,371 ha compare
- 5 Nepal 29,539 ha compare
- 6 Papua New Guinea 25,122 ha compare
- 7 Haiti 24,456 ha compare
- 7 Melanesia 26,472 ha compare
- 8 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 16,541 ha compare
- 8 Thailand 17,040 ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) was 230,754 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 Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 460,486 ha in 1992.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 126,642 ha in 1993.
- How does Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 5th out of 25 groups with data for 2024.
- Is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. rising or falling in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 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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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.