Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Melanesia
Melanesia: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 26,472 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Melanesia recorded 26,472 ha for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in 2024.
The figure is down 0.2% on the previous year and down 16.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Melanesia peaked at 33,504 ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 13,200 ha, in 1961.
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 Melanesia, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 13,200 ha | — |
| 1962 | 13,400 ha | +1.5% |
| 1963 | 13,300 ha | -0.7% |
| 1964 | 13,750 ha | +3.4% |
| 1965 | 14,080 ha | +2.4% |
| 1966 | 14,400 ha | +2.3% |
| 1967 | 14,850 ha | +3.1% |
| 1968 | 15,280 ha | +2.9% |
| 1969 | 15,700 ha | +2.7% |
| 1970 | 15,950 ha | +1.6% |
| 1971 | 16,200 ha | +1.6% |
| 1972 | 16,400 ha | +1.2% |
| 1973 | 16,650 ha | +1.5% |
| 1974 | 17,050 ha | +2.4% |
| 1975 | 17,280 ha | +1.3% |
| 1976 | 17,600 ha | +1.9% |
| 1977 | 17,900 ha | +1.7% |
| 1978 | 18,100 ha | +1.1% |
| 1979 | 18,200 ha | +0.6% |
| 1980 | 19,600 ha | +7.7% |
| 1981 | 20,000 ha | +2.0% |
| 1982 | 20,300 ha | +1.5% |
| 1983 | 20,550 ha | +1.2% |
| 1984 | 20,829 ha | +1.4% |
| 1985 | 22,100 ha | +6.1% |
| 1986 | 23,800 ha | +7.7% |
| 1987 | 25,000 ha | +5.0% |
| 1988 | 25,400 ha | +1.6% |
| 1989 | 25,900 ha | +2.0% |
| 1990 | 26,254 ha | +1.4% |
| 1991 | 24,093 ha | -8.2% |
| 1992 | 23,671 ha | -1.8% |
| 1993 | 23,535 ha | -0.6% |
| 1994 | 26,112 ha | +10.9% |
| 1995 | 23,955 ha | -8.3% |
| 1996 | 23,471 ha | -2.0% |
| 1997 | 24,300 ha | +3.5% |
| 1998 | 24,690 ha | +1.6% |
| 1999 | 24,936 ha | +1.0% |
| 2000 | 25,509 ha | +2.3% |
| 2001 | 26,000 ha | +1.9% |
| 2002 | 26,610 ha | +2.3% |
| 2003 | 26,686 ha | +0.3% |
| 2004 | 27,200 ha | +1.9% |
| 2005 | 26,488 ha | -2.6% |
| 2006 | 27,750 ha | +4.8% |
| 2007 | 27,636 ha | -0.4% |
| 2008 | 28,695 ha | +3.8% |
| 2009 | 29,721 ha | +3.6% |
| 2010 | 28,987 ha | -2.5% |
| 2011 | 30,381 ha | +4.8% |
| 2012 | 30,120 ha | -0.9% |
| 2013 | 30,950 ha | +2.8% |
| 2014 | 31,527 ha | +1.9% |
| 2015 | 31,492 ha | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 31,809 ha | +1.0% |
| 2017 | 32,282 ha | +1.5% |
| 2018 | 32,641 ha | +1.1% |
| 2019 | 33,080 ha | +1.3% |
| 2020 | 33,504 ha | +1.3% |
| 2021 | 33,075 ha | -1.3% |
| 2022 | 26,497 ha | -19.9% |
| 2023 | 26,531 ha | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 26,472 ha | -0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 14,218 ha | 13,200 ha | 15,700 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 17,133 ha | 15,950 ha | 18,200 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 22,348 ha | 19,600 ha | 25,900 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 24,502 ha | 23,471 ha | 26,254 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 27,230 ha | 25,509 ha | 29,721 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 31,327 ha | 28,987 ha | 33,080 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 29,216 ha | 26,472 ha | 33,504 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
- 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
- 8 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 16,541 ha compare
- 8 Thailand 17,040 ha compare
- 9 Eritrea 15,193 ha compare
- 9 Timor-Leste 8,269 ha compare
- 10 Guinea-Bissau 13,406 ha compare
- 10 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 3,520 ha compare
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- Pulses, Total — Yield, annual growth rate 0.3238 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sheep and Goats — Stocks, annual growth rate 2.45 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered, annual growth 3.54 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sheep and Goat Meat — Production, annual growth rate 10.68 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sheep and Goat Meat — Yield/Carcass Weight, annual growth rate 8 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Production, annual growth rate 0.5158 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield, annual growth rate 0.484 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Area harvested, annual growth rate 0.0319 % change on previous year (2024)
- Pulses, Total — Production, annual growth rate 0.472 % change on previous year (2024)
- Oilcrops, Cake Equivalent — Yield, annual growth rate 0.2882 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Melanesia?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Melanesia was 26,472 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 Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 33,504 ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 13,200 ha in 1961.
- How does Melanesia rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Melanesia ranks 7th out of 13 countries with data for 2024.
- Is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 16.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Melanesia 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.