Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 87,574 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guinea-Bissau, 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 Guinea-Bissau is 87,574 t, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 0.3% on the previous year and down 4.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guinea-Bissau peaked at 91,911 t in 2014 and was at its lowest, 30,000 t, in 1975.
Guinea-Bissau ranks 12th of 75 countries 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 Guinea-Bissau, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 40,000 t | — |
| 1962 | 40,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 40,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 40,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 40,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 40,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 40,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 45,000 t | +12.5% |
| 1969 | 40,000 t | -11.1% |
| 1970 | 40,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 35,000 t | -12.5% |
| 1972 | 40,000 t | +14.3% |
| 1973 | 35,000 t | -12.5% |
| 1974 | 35,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 30,000 t | -14.3% |
| 1976 | 30,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 50,000 t | +66.7% |
| 1978 | 40,000 t | -20.0% |
| 1979 | 50,000 t | +25.0% |
| 1980 | 50,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 40,000 t | -20.0% |
| 1982 | 40,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 50,000 t | +25.0% |
| 1984 | 40,000 t | -20.0% |
| 1985 | 45,000 t | +12.5% |
| 1986 | 48,000 t | +6.7% |
| 1987 | 50,000 t | +4.2% |
| 1988 | 50,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 51,000 t | +2.0% |
| 1990 | 52,000 t | +2.0% |
| 1991 | 54,000 t | +3.8% |
| 1992 | 55,000 t | +1.9% |
| 1993 | 56,000 t | +1.8% |
| 1994 | 57,000 t | +1.8% |
| 1995 | 58,000 t | +1.8% |
| 1996 | 60,000 t | +3.4% |
| 1997 | 61,000 t | +1.7% |
| 1998 | 62,500 t | +2.5% |
| 1999 | 65,000 t | +4.0% |
| 2000 | 65,154 t | +0.2% |
| 2001 | 65,634 t | +0.7% |
| 2002 | 66,470 t | +1.3% |
| 2003 | 68,000 t | +2.3% |
| 2004 | 68,778 t | +1.1% |
| 2005 | 72,000 t | +4.7% |
| 2006 | 71,000 t | -1.4% |
| 2007 | 71,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 71,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 72,000 t | +1.4% |
| 2010 | 58,000 t | -19.4% |
| 2011 | 58,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 65,000 t | +12.1% |
| 2013 | 68,000 t | +4.6% |
| 2014 | 91,911 t | +35.2% |
| 2015 | 85,756 t | -6.7% |
| 2016 | 80,660 t | -5.9% |
| 2017 | 86,109 t | +6.8% |
| 2018 | 86,216 t | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 86,205 t | -0.0% |
| 2020 | 86,480 t | +0.3% |
| 2021 | 88,395 t | +2.2% |
| 2022 | 87,026 t | -1.5% |
| 2023 | 87,300 t | +0.3% |
| 2024 | 87,574 t | +0.3% |
Guinea-Bissau compared with similar countries
- Guinea-Bissau's 87,574 t is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 39,779 t, 2.2× the median. (15 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guinea-Bissau 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 | +66.7% | 30,000 t | 50,000 t |
| 2014 | +35.2% | 68,000 t | 91,911 t |
| 1979 | +25.0% | 40,000 t | 50,000 t |
| 1983 | +25.0% | 40,000 t | 50,000 t |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 40,556 t | 40,000 t | 45,000 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 38,500 t | 30,000 t | 50,000 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 46,400 t | 40,000 t | 51,000 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 58,050 t | 52,000 t | 65,000 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 69,103 t | 65,154 t | 72,000 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 76,586 t | 58,000 t | 91,911 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 87,355 t | 86,480 t | 88,395 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Guinea-Bissau
- 9 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 49,688 t compare
- 9 Nepal 153,475 t compare
- 10 Colombia 129,129 t compare
- 10 Timor-Leste 27,293 t compare
- 11 Botswana 106,245 t compare
- 11 Micronesia 6,400 t compare
- 12 Polynesia 6,035 t compare
- 13 Eswatini 66,514 t compare
- 13 United Republic of Tanzania 2,221 t compare
- 14 Congo 63,340 t compare
- 15 France 62,327 t compare
More agriculture & rural data for Guinea-Bissau
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.52 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.4063 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 456.57 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.17 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0005 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5335 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 40.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 40.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 31.5% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2018)
Frequently asked questions
- What is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guinea-Bissau?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guinea-Bissau was 87,574 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 Guinea-Bissau?
- The highest recorded value was 91,911 t in 2014.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Guinea-Bissau?
- The lowest recorded value was 30,000 t in 1975.
- How does Guinea-Bissau rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Guinea-Bissau ranks 12th out of 75 countries with data for 2024.
- Is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. rising or falling in Guinea-Bissau?
- Over the last ten years it is down 4.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Guinea-Bissau 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.