Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c., fresh — Yield by country

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...

Countries reporting
76
Highest
52,659 kg/ha
Pakistan
Lowest
236.2 kg/ha
Sao Tome and Principe
Median
8,176 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
5,782

What the numbers show

Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c., fresh — Yield is currently reported for 76 countries. The highest value is 52,659 kg/ha in Pakistan; the lowest is 236.2 kg/ha in Sao Tome and Principe.

The median across all reporting countries is 8,176 kg/ha, and the mean is 10,863 kg/ha.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 223.

Over the past decade 48 countries rose and 27 fell. The largest increase was in Malaysia (up 414.1%), and the largest decrease in Cyprus (down 55.6%).

Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Pakistan 52,659 kg/ha 2024 up 137.1% rising
2 Malaysia 51,427 kg/ha 2024 up 414.1% volatile
3 Mexico 29,308 kg/ha 2024 up 14.2% rising
4 Cook Islands 24,667 kg/ha 2020 down 0.5% rising
5 Serbia 23,933 kg/ha 2024 down 1.1% flat
6 Palestine, State of 19,395 kg/ha 2022 down 3.0% flat
7 Panama 19,006 kg/ha 2018 down 10.3% flat
8 Slovenia 17,778 kg/ha 2017 down 10.1% falling
9 China, Taiwan Province of 17,471 kg/ha 1990 up 2.5% rising
10 Jamaica 17,387 kg/ha 2024 up 1.0% rising
10 Democratic Republic of the Congo 7,300 kg/ha 2024 down 0.0% flat
11 Singapore 17,037 kg/ha 2024 up 21.3% rising
11 Timor-Leste 3,301 kg/ha 2024 up 13.2% falling
12 Thailand 16,438 kg/ha 2024 up 0.6% rising
13 Spain 16,200 kg/ha 2017 down 19.0% rising
14 Bhutan 15,760 kg/ha 2024 up 9.6% rising
15 China 15,380 kg/ha 2024 up 8.0% flat
15 China, mainland 15,380 kg/ha 2024 up 8.0% rising
17 Japan 14,744 kg/ha 2024 up 2.4% falling
18 Papua New Guinea 14,714 kg/ha 2024 up 1.2% falling
19 Colombia 14,368 kg/ha 2024 up 64.8% rising
20 Martinique 14,174 kg/ha 2006 up 15.3% rising
21 Estonia 13,939 kg/ha 2011 down 54.8% falling
22 Puerto Rico 13,729 kg/ha 2024 up 92.5% volatile
23 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 13,607 kg/ha 2024 up 3.1% rising
24 Botswana 13,119 kg/ha 2024 up 11.9% rising
25 Dominica 12,028 kg/ha 2024 down 0.6% rising
26 Cambodia 11,802 kg/ha 2024 down 0.6% rising
27 Suriname 11,759 kg/ha 2024 down 0.6% rising
28 Iraq 10,548 kg/ha 2024 up 37.6% rising
29 French Polynesia 10,108 kg/ha 2024 up 0.2% falling
30 Zimbabwe 10,077 kg/ha 2024 up 0.7% rising
31 Kiribati 10,000 kg/ha 1990 up 8.8% flat
32 Hungary 9,803 kg/ha 1992 down 18.3% rising
33 Belize 9,252 kg/ha 2024 up 1.5% falling
34 Cameroon 9,043 kg/ha 2024 up 5.5% rising
35 Guadeloupe 8,784 kg/ha 2006 up 1.7% falling
36 Tonga 8,706 kg/ha 2024 up 3.9% falling
37 Namibia 8,631 kg/ha 2024 down 0.3% flat
38 Vanuatu 8,286 kg/ha 2021 up 2.7% falling
39 Costa Rica 8,067 kg/ha 2024 down 20.0% rising
40 Trinidad and Tobago 8,030 kg/ha 2010 up 2.9% flat
41 Kenya 7,681 kg/ha 2024 up 0.6% rising
42 Samoa 7,558 kg/ha 2024 up 0.7% rising
43 Congo 7,557 kg/ha 2024 up 4.6% rising
44 Sri Lanka 7,550 kg/ha 2024 down 29.4% falling
45 Eswatini 7,270 kg/ha 2024 up 0.1% rising
46 Mozambique 7,103 kg/ha 2024 down 1.4% rising
47 Tuvalu 7,070 kg/ha 2024 up 1.7% rising
48 Ethiopia PDR 7,027 kg/ha 1992 up 9.3% rising
49 Peru 6,951 kg/ha 2024 up 6.1% rising
50 Bulgaria 6,667 kg/ha 1967 unchanged falling
51 Morocco 6,661 kg/ha 2024 up 2.8% flat
52 Guinea-Bissau 6,532 kg/ha 2024 down 5.6% flat
53 Honduras 6,472 kg/ha 2024 down 2.7% rising
54 Grenada 6,301 kg/ha 2015 down 4.4% flat
55 France 6,296 kg/ha 2017 up 5.5% flat
56 Equatorial Guinea 6,197 kg/ha 2024 up 2.0% rising
57 Indonesia 6,056 kg/ha 2024 up 0.9% rising
58 Cyprus 6,000 kg/ha 1973 down 55.6% falling
59 Guyana 5,680 kg/ha 2024 down 1.2% falling
60 Togo 5,213 kg/ha 2024 down 1.1% falling
61 Nepal 5,196 kg/ha 2024 up 1.3% flat
62 Ghana 5,170 kg/ha 2024 down 2.5% flat
63 Maldives 4,846 kg/ha 1990 up 0.3% flat
64 Egypt 4,681 kg/ha 2024 down 0.9% falling
65 Nicaragua 4,017 kg/ha 2023 up 4.4% flat
66 Saint Lucia 3,794 kg/ha 2024 down 1.4% falling
67 Eritrea 3,448 kg/ha 2024 up 2.7% rising
68 Fiji 2,986 kg/ha 2024 up 6.6% volatile
69 Ecuador 2,520 kg/ha 2024 up 0.8% volatile
70 Saint Kitts and Nevis 2,514 kg/ha 2024 up 0.2% flat
71 Haiti 2,503 kg/ha 2024 up 8.3% rising
72 Philippines 1,534 kg/ha 2024 down 38.7% falling
73 Brunei Darussalam 1,132 kg/ha 2024 up 2.7% falling
74 Sao Tome and Principe 236.2 kg/ha 2024 down 16.0% volatile

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c., fresh — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
112 places, 5,782 data points, 1961–2024
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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.