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 134,156 t 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 t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Western Africa is 134,156 t, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 0.1% on the previous year and down 3.5% 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 139,043 t in 2014 and was at its lowest, 30,000 t, in 1975.
Western Africa ranks 13th 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 | 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 | 50,150 t | +4.5% |
| 1988 | 50,150 t | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 51,150 t | +2.0% |
| 1990 | 52,159 t | +2.0% |
| 1991 | 54,273 t | +4.1% |
| 1992 | 55,468 t | +2.2% |
| 1993 | 56,633 t | +2.1% |
| 1994 | 58,022 t | +2.5% |
| 1995 | 60,099 t | +3.6% |
| 1996 | 63,177 t | +5.1% |
| 1997 | 74,286 t | +17.6% |
| 1998 | 75,763 t | +2.0% |
| 1999 | 78,409 t | +3.5% |
| 2000 | 78,719 t | +0.4% |
| 2001 | 78,654 t | -0.1% |
| 2002 | 78,361 t | -0.4% |
| 2003 | 80,031 t | +2.1% |
| 2004 | 81,105 t | +1.3% |
| 2005 | 84,602 t | +4.3% |
| 2006 | 83,928 t | -0.8% |
| 2007 | 85,144 t | +1.4% |
| 2008 | 86,043 t | +1.1% |
| 2009 | 91,111 t | +5.9% |
| 2010 | 83,205 t | -8.7% |
| 2011 | 89,281 t | +7.3% |
| 2012 | 106,320 t | +19.1% |
| 2013 | 110,281 t | +3.7% |
| 2014 | 139,043 t | +26.1% |
| 2015 | 131,654 t | -5.3% |
| 2016 | 124,755 t | -5.2% |
| 2017 | 131,684 t | +5.6% |
| 2018 | 132,795 t | +0.8% |
| 2019 | 132,247 t | -0.4% |
| 2020 | 133,473 t | +0.9% |
| 2021 | 134,932 t | +1.1% |
| 2022 | 133,551 t | -1.0% |
| 2023 | 133,985 t | +0.3% |
| 2024 | 134,156 t | +0.1% |
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 | +66.7% | 30,000 t | 50,000 t |
| 2014 | +26.1% | 110,281 t | 139,043 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 | 46,445 t | 40,000 t | 51,150 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 62,829 t | 52,159 t | 78,409 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 82,770 t | 78,361 t | 91,111 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 118,126 t | 83,205 t | 139,043 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 134,019 t | 133,473 t | 134,932 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Western Africa
- 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 Guinea-Bissau 87,574 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
- 16 Haiti 61,217 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 Western Africa?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Western Africa was 134,156 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 Western Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 139,043 t 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 30,000 t in 1975.
- How does Western Africa rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Western Africa ranks 13th 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 3.5%. 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 — 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.