Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Southern Africa
Southern Africa: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 61,194 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Southern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Southern Africa recorded 61,194 ha for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.3% on the previous year and up 5.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Southern Africa peaked at 61,929 ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 25,500 ha, in 1961.
Southern Africa ranks 9th of 25 groups 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 Southern Africa, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 25,500 ha | — |
| 1962 | 26,500 ha | +3.9% |
| 1963 | 26,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 27,600 ha | +4.2% |
| 1965 | 27,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 27,800 ha | +0.7% |
| 1967 | 27,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 27,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 29,000 ha | +4.3% |
| 1970 | 29,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 29,200 ha | +0.7% |
| 1972 | 29,300 ha | +0.3% |
| 1973 | 29,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 29,400 ha | +0.3% |
| 1975 | 30,500 ha | +3.7% |
| 1976 | 30,800 ha | +1.0% |
| 1977 | 31,100 ha | +1.0% |
| 1978 | 31,900 ha | +2.6% |
| 1979 | 33,000 ha | +3.4% |
| 1980 | 33,100 ha | +0.3% |
| 1981 | 33,200 ha | +0.3% |
| 1982 | 33,800 ha | +1.8% |
| 1983 | 33,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 35,200 ha | +4.1% |
| 1985 | 35,400 ha | +0.6% |
| 1986 | 35,700 ha | +0.8% |
| 1987 | 37,200 ha | +4.2% |
| 1988 | 37,400 ha | +0.5% |
| 1989 | 37,600 ha | +0.5% |
| 1990 | 39,100 ha | +4.0% |
| 1991 | 39,758 ha | +1.7% |
| 1992 | 38,100 ha | -4.2% |
| 1993 | 39,196 ha | +2.9% |
| 1994 | 40,500 ha | +3.3% |
| 1995 | 41,805 ha | +3.2% |
| 1996 | 43,012 ha | +2.9% |
| 1997 | 44,400 ha | +3.2% |
| 1998 | 46,200 ha | +4.1% |
| 1999 | 46,870 ha | +1.5% |
| 2000 | 47,685 ha | +1.7% |
| 2001 | 50,600 ha | +6.1% |
| 2002 | 52,028 ha | +2.8% |
| 2003 | 52,592 ha | +1.1% |
| 2004 | 53,770 ha | +2.2% |
| 2005 | 54,150 ha | +0.7% |
| 2006 | 54,574 ha | +0.8% |
| 2007 | 55,537 ha | +1.8% |
| 2008 | 54,256 ha | -2.3% |
| 2009 | 53,525 ha | -1.3% |
| 2010 | 55,669 ha | +4.0% |
| 2011 | 56,111 ha | +0.8% |
| 2012 | 57,000 ha | +1.6% |
| 2013 | 55,850 ha | -2.0% |
| 2014 | 57,775 ha | +3.4% |
| 2015 | 58,524 ha | +1.3% |
| 2016 | 59,013 ha | +0.8% |
| 2017 | 59,678 ha | +1.1% |
| 2018 | 60,392 ha | +1.2% |
| 2019 | 61,179 ha | +1.3% |
| 2020 | 61,929 ha | +1.2% |
| 2021 | 61,089 ha | -1.4% |
| 2022 | 61,310 ha | +0.4% |
| 2023 | 61,363 ha | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 61,194 ha | -0.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 27,344 ha | 25,500 ha | 29,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 30,350 ha | 29,000 ha | 33,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 35,240 ha | 33,100 ha | 37,600 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 41,894 ha | 38,100 ha | 46,870 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 52,872 ha | 47,685 ha | 55,537 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 58,119 ha | 55,669 ha | 61,179 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 61,377 ha | 61,089 ha | 61,929 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Southern Africa
- 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
- 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
- 11 Pakistan 12,214 ha compare
- 11 United Republic of Tanzania 993 ha compare
- 11 Caribbean 27,948 ha compare
- 12 Ecuador 10,626 ha compare
- 12 Polynesia 739 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 Southern Africa?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Southern Africa was 61,194 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 Southern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 61,929 ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Southern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 25,500 ha in 1961.
- How does Southern Africa rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Southern Africa ranks 9th 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 Southern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Southern Africa 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.