Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Cameroon
Cameroon: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 9,043 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Cameroon, 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 Cameroon stood at 9,043 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.3% on the previous year and up 5.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Cameroon peaked at 12,233 kg/ha in 1991 and was at its lowest, 4,615 kg/ha, in 1962.
That places Cameroon 34th out of 74 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 Cameroon, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,688 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,615 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1963 | 4,615 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 4,615 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 4,615 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 4,615 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 4,615 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 4,615 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 4,615 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 4,615 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 4,615 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 4,615 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 4,615 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 4,615 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 4,615 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 4,615 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 4,615 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 4,615 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 4,688 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1980 | 4,688 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 4,688 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 4,688 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 4,688 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 4,688 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 4,688 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 4,688 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 4,688 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 4,688 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 4,688 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 4,884 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1991 | 12,233 kg/ha | +150.5% |
| 1992 | 12,093 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1993 | 11,954 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1994 | 11,814 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1995 | 11,674 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1996 | 11,534 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1997 | 11,394 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1998 | 11,254 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1999 | 11,115 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2000 | 10,975 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2001 | 10,835 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2002 | 10,695 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2003 | 10,556 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2004 | 10,395 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2005 | 10,213 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2006 | 10,031 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2007 | 9,984 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2008 | 9,720 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2009 | 9,500 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2010 | 9,634 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2011 | 9,165 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 2012 | 8,750 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2013 | 8,646 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2014 | 8,573 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2015 | 8,454 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2016 | 8,886 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2017 | 8,816 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2018 | 8,726 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2019 | 9,074 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2020 | 9,160 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2021 | 8,985 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2022 | 9,073 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2023 | 9,073 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2024 | 9,043 kg/ha | -0.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,623 kg/ha | 4,615 kg/ha | 4,688 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,623 kg/ha | 4,615 kg/ha | 4,688 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,688 kg/ha | 4,688 kg/ha | 4,688 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 10,995 kg/ha | 4,884 kg/ha | 12,233 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,290 kg/ha | 9,500 kg/ha | 10,975 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,872 kg/ha | 8,454 kg/ha | 9,634 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9,067 kg/ha | 8,985 kg/ha | 9,160 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Cameroon?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Cameroon was 9,043 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 Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 12,233 kg/ha in 1991.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,615 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Cameroon rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Cameroon ranks 34th out of 74 countries with data for 2024.
- Is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cameroon 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.