Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Africa
Africa: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 1.85 million t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Africa is 1.85 million t, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 0.1% 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 Africa peaked at 3.23 million t in 1992 and was at its lowest, 706,550 t, in 1961.
Africa ranks 5th of 25 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
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 Africa, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 706,550 t | — |
| 1962 | 733,100 t | +3.8% |
| 1963 | 742,550 t | +1.3% |
| 1964 | 756,500 t | +1.9% |
| 1965 | 766,800 t | +1.4% |
| 1966 | 779,300 t | +1.6% |
| 1967 | 793,000 t | +1.8% |
| 1968 | 810,200 t | +2.2% |
| 1969 | 819,200 t | +1.1% |
| 1970 | 834,050 t | +1.8% |
| 1971 | 847,600 t | +1.6% |
| 1972 | 866,100 t | +2.2% |
| 1973 | 918,800 t | +6.1% |
| 1974 | 1.03 million t | +11.6% |
| 1975 | 1.18 million t | +14.8% |
| 1976 | 1.28 million t | +8.8% |
| 1977 | 1.51 million t | +17.6% |
| 1978 | 1.70 million t | +12.7% |
| 1979 | 1.91 million t | +12.4% |
| 1980 | 2.01 million t | +5.2% |
| 1981 | 2.10 million t | +4.9% |
| 1982 | 2.21 million t | +5.2% |
| 1983 | 2.33 million t | +5.2% |
| 1984 | 2.13 million t | -8.5% |
| 1985 | 2.24 million t | +5.1% |
| 1986 | 2.45 million t | +9.5% |
| 1987 | 2.57 million t | +4.6% |
| 1988 | 2.78 million t | +8.2% |
| 1989 | 2.68 million t | -3.4% |
| 1990 | 3.05 million t | +13.8% |
| 1991 | 3.00 million t | -1.8% |
| 1992 | 3.23 million t | +7.6% |
| 1993 | 751,156 t | -76.7% |
| 1994 | 812,122 t | +8.1% |
| 1995 | 876,094 t | +7.9% |
| 1996 | 929,182 t | +6.1% |
| 1997 | 981,251 t | +5.6% |
| 1998 | 1.03 million t | +5.0% |
| 1999 | 1.06 million t | +3.2% |
| 2000 | 1.11 million t | +4.4% |
| 2001 | 1.17 million t | +5.1% |
| 2002 | 1.23 million t | +5.2% |
| 2003 | 1.29 million t | +4.7% |
| 2004 | 1.34 million t | +4.1% |
| 2005 | 1.39 million t | +3.9% |
| 2006 | 1.43 million t | +2.6% |
| 2007 | 1.46 million t | +2.6% |
| 2008 | 1.49 million t | +1.9% |
| 2009 | 1.52 million t | +2.1% |
| 2010 | 1.59 million t | +4.4% |
| 2011 | 1.66 million t | +4.3% |
| 2012 | 1.70 million t | +2.5% |
| 2013 | 1.71 million t | +0.8% |
| 2014 | 1.74 million t | +1.8% |
| 2015 | 1.84 million t | +5.5% |
| 2016 | 1.78 million t | -3.3% |
| 2017 | 1.81 million t | +1.5% |
| 2018 | 1.84 million t | +1.9% |
| 2019 | 1.83 million t | -0.5% |
| 2020 | 1.86 million t | +1.5% |
| 2021 | 1.85 million t | -0.6% |
| 2022 | 1.85 million t | -0.1% |
| 2023 | 1.85 million t | +0.3% |
| 2024 | 1.85 million t | -0.1% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | -76.7% | 3.23 million t | 751,156 t |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 767,467 t | 706,550 t | 819,200 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 1.21 million t | 834,050 t | 1.91 million t | 10 |
| 1980s | 2.35 million t | 2.01 million t | 2.78 million t | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.57 million t | 751,156 t | 3.23 million t | 10 |
| 2000s | 1.34 million t | 1.11 million t | 1.52 million t | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.75 million t | 1.59 million t | 1.84 million t | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.85 million t | 1.85 million t | 1.86 million t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Africa
- 2 Pakistan 643,180 t compare
- 3 Indonesia 384,233 t compare
- 3 Lao People's Democratic Republic 4.95 million t compare
- 4 Namibia 379,322 t compare
- 5 Democratic Republic of the Congo 922,483 t compare
- 5 Papua New Guinea 369,648 t compare
- 6 Thailand 280,114 t compare
- 7 Peru 276,425 t compare
- 7 Melanesia 373,679 t compare
- 8 Mexico 183,964 t compare
- 8 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 50,292 t compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Africa?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Africa was 1.85 million t 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 Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 3.23 million t in 1992.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 706,550 t in 1961.
- How does Africa rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Africa 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 Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this 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 — Production. 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.