Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Americas
Americas: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 7,185 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Americas, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Americas stood at 7,185 kg/ha.
That represents a change of down 0.3% on the previous year and up 7.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Americas peaked at 7,657 kg/ha in 2012 and was at its lowest, 4,063 kg/ha, in 1968.
Americas ranks 19th of 25 groups on this measure, in the bottom 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 Americas, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,449 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,541 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1963 | 4,497 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1964 | 4,451 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1965 | 4,347 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1966 | 4,093 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 1967 | 4,087 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1968 | 4,063 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1969 | 4,178 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1970 | 4,313 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1971 | 4,313 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 4,518 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1973 | 4,226 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1974 | 4,458 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1975 | 4,310 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1976 | 4,522 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1977 | 4,556 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1978 | 4,840 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1979 | 4,215 kg/ha | -12.9% |
| 1980 | 4,359 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1981 | 4,516 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1982 | 4,687 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1983 | 4,803 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1984 | 4,978 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1985 | 4,895 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1986 | 5,164 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1987 | 4,856 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1988 | 5,034 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1989 | 5,120 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1990 | 5,292 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1991 | 5,047 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1992 | 5,000 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1993 | 5,254 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1994 | 5,353 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1995 | 5,473 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1996 | 5,664 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1997 | 5,610 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1998 | 5,538 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1999 | 5,598 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2000 | 5,480 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2001 | 5,646 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2002 | 5,716 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2003 | 6,815 kg/ha | +19.2% |
| 2004 | 6,465 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 2005 | 6,765 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2006 | 6,950 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2007 | 6,572 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 2008 | 6,534 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2009 | 6,304 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2010 | 6,439 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2011 | 6,507 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2012 | 7,657 kg/ha | +17.7% |
| 2013 | 6,554 kg/ha | -14.4% |
| 2014 | 6,659 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2015 | 6,857 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2016 | 7,115 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2017 | 7,068 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2018 | 7,074 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 7,070 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2020 | 7,334 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2021 | 7,193 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2022 | 7,045 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2023 | 7,208 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2024 | 7,185 kg/ha | -0.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,301 kg/ha | 4,063 kg/ha | 4,541 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,427 kg/ha | 4,215 kg/ha | 4,840 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,841 kg/ha | 4,359 kg/ha | 5,164 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,383 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 5,664 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,325 kg/ha | 5,480 kg/ha | 6,950 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,900 kg/ha | 6,439 kg/ha | 7,657 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 7,193 kg/ha | 7,045 kg/ha | 7,334 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Americas
- 17 Japan 14,744 kg/ha compare
- 18 Papua New Guinea 14,714 kg/ha compare
- 19 Colombia 14,368 kg/ha compare
- 20 Martinique 14,174 kg/ha compare
- 21 Estonia 13,939 kg/ha compare
- 22 Puerto Rico 13,729 kg/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 Americas?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Americas was 7,185 kg/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 Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 7,657 kg/ha in 2012.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,063 kg/ha in 1968.
- How does Americas rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Americas ranks 19th 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 Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Americas 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 — Yield. 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.