Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Western Africa
Western Africa: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 17,045 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Western Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Western Africa is 17,045 ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 0.4% on the previous year and down 1.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Western Africa peaked at 17,336 ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 5,000 ha, in 1975.
Western Africa ranks 14th 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 Western Africa, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,500 ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 6,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 6,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 6,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 6,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 6,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 7,000 ha | +7.7% |
| 1969 | 6,500 ha | -7.1% |
| 1970 | 6,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 6,000 ha | -7.7% |
| 1972 | 6,500 ha | +8.3% |
| 1973 | 6,000 ha | -7.7% |
| 1974 | 6,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 5,000 ha | -16.7% |
| 1976 | 5,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 8,000 ha | +60.0% |
| 1978 | 6,500 ha | -18.8% |
| 1979 | 8,000 ha | +23.1% |
| 1980 | 9,000 ha | +12.5% |
| 1981 | 6,500 ha | -27.8% |
| 1982 | 6,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 8,000 ha | +23.1% |
| 1984 | 6,500 ha | -18.8% |
| 1985 | 6,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 7,500 ha | +15.4% |
| 1987 | 8,025 ha | +7.0% |
| 1988 | 8,025 ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 8,225 ha | +2.5% |
| 1990 | 8,425 ha | +2.4% |
| 1991 | 8,650 ha | +2.7% |
| 1992 | 8,881 ha | +2.7% |
| 1993 | 9,110 ha | +2.6% |
| 1994 | 9,375 ha | +2.9% |
| 1995 | 9,760 ha | +4.1% |
| 1996 | 10,166 ha | +4.2% |
| 1997 | 11,975 ha | +17.8% |
| 1998 | 12,196 ha | +1.8% |
| 1999 | 12,706 ha | +4.2% |
| 2000 | 12,744 ha | +0.3% |
| 2001 | 12,736 ha | -0.1% |
| 2002 | 12,660 ha | -0.6% |
| 2003 | 12,923 ha | +2.1% |
| 2004 | 13,189 ha | +2.1% |
| 2005 | 13,801 ha | +4.6% |
| 2006 | 14,095 ha | +2.1% |
| 2007 | 14,528 ha | +3.1% |
| 2008 | 14,898 ha | +2.5% |
| 2009 | 14,171 ha | -4.9% |
| 2010 | 12,230 ha | -13.7% |
| 2011 | 12,741 ha | +4.2% |
| 2012 | 14,742 ha | +15.7% |
| 2013 | 15,425 ha | +4.6% |
| 2014 | 17,336 ha | +12.4% |
| 2015 | 17,105 ha | -1.3% |
| 2016 | 16,422 ha | -4.0% |
| 2017 | 16,241 ha | -1.1% |
| 2018 | 16,673 ha | +2.7% |
| 2019 | 16,502 ha | -1.0% |
| 2020 | 16,716 ha | +1.3% |
| 2021 | 16,808 ha | +0.6% |
| 2022 | 16,860 ha | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 16,974 ha | +0.7% |
| 2024 | 17,045 ha | +0.4% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Western Africa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | +60.0% | 5,000 ha | 8,000 ha |
| 1981 | -27.8% | 9,000 ha | 6,500 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,556 ha | 6,500 ha | 7,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,350 ha | 5,000 ha | 8,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,478 ha | 6,500 ha | 9,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 10,124 ha | 8,425 ha | 12,706 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 13,574 ha | 12,660 ha | 14,898 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 15,542 ha | 12,230 ha | 17,336 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 16,881 ha | 16,716 ha | 17,045 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Western Africa
- 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
- 13 France 9,899 ha compare
- 13 Micronesia 640 ha compare
- 14 Eswatini 9,149 ha compare
- 15 Colombia 8,987 ha compare
- 16 Congo 8,381 ha compare
- 17 Botswana 8,098 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 Western Africa?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Western Africa was 17,045 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 Western Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 17,336 ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Western Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,000 ha in 1975.
- How does Western Africa rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Western Africa ranks 14th 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 Western Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Western 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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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.