Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Caribbean
Caribbean: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 3,885 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Caribbean, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Caribbean recorded 3,885 kg/ha for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in 2024.
The figure is up 2.1% on the previous year and up 10.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Caribbean peaked at 4,553 kg/ha in 1985 and was at its lowest, 3,078 kg/ha, in 2004.
Caribbean ranks 25th of 25 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Caribbean, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,039 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,118 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1963 | 4,354 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1964 | 4,245 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1965 | 3,919 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 1966 | 3,572 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 1967 | 3,405 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1968 | 3,356 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1969 | 3,362 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1970 | 3,645 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 1971 | 3,685 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1972 | 3,881 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1973 | 3,834 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1974 | 4,296 kg/ha | +12.0% |
| 1975 | 3,985 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 1976 | 4,082 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1977 | 4,164 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1978 | 4,022 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1979 | 4,003 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1980 | 3,950 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1981 | 3,869 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1982 | 3,928 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1983 | 4,109 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1984 | 4,453 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 1985 | 4,553 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1986 | 4,474 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1987 | 3,831 kg/ha | -14.4% |
| 1988 | 4,213 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1989 | 3,910 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 1990 | 3,576 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 1991 | 3,236 kg/ha | -9.5% |
| 1992 | 3,444 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1993 | 3,872 kg/ha | +12.4% |
| 1994 | 3,832 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1995 | 3,849 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1996 | 4,058 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1997 | 3,738 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1998 | 3,705 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1999 | 3,879 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2000 | 3,638 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 2001 | 3,824 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2002 | 3,821 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2003 | 3,534 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 2004 | 3,078 kg/ha | -12.9% |
| 2005 | 3,228 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 2006 | 3,404 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 2007 | 3,277 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 2008 | 3,354 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2009 | 3,574 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 2010 | 3,657 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2011 | 3,652 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 3,599 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2013 | 3,554 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2014 | 3,530 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2015 | 3,490 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2016 | 3,545 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2017 | 3,652 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2018 | 3,709 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2019 | 3,723 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2020 | 3,674 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2021 | 3,764 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2022 | 3,878 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2023 | 3,806 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2024 | 3,885 kg/ha | +2.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,819 kg/ha | 3,356 kg/ha | 4,354 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,960 kg/ha | 3,645 kg/ha | 4,296 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,129 kg/ha | 3,831 kg/ha | 4,553 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,719 kg/ha | 3,236 kg/ha | 4,058 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,473 kg/ha | 3,078 kg/ha | 3,824 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,611 kg/ha | 3,490 kg/ha | 3,723 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,801 kg/ha | 3,674 kg/ha | 3,885 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 Caribbean?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Caribbean was 3,885 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 Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 4,553 kg/ha in 1985.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,078 kg/ha in 2004.
- How does Caribbean rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Caribbean ranks 25th 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 Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Caribbean 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.