Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 4,182 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Eastern Africa recorded 4,182 kg/ha for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in 2024.
The figure is up 0.7% on the previous year and up 4.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Eastern Africa peaked at 7,182 kg/ha in 1988 and was at its lowest, 2,408 kg/ha, in 1964.
That places Eastern Africa 24th out of 25 groups with data for 2024, putting it 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 Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2,415 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,415 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 2,416 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 2,408 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1965 | 2,420 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1966 | 2,437 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1967 | 2,436 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1968 | 2,435 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1969 | 2,433 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1970 | 2,433 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 2,432 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1972 | 2,431 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1973 | 2,779 kg/ha | +14.3% |
| 1974 | 3,121 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 1975 | 3,650 kg/ha | +17.0% |
| 1976 | 4,100 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 1977 | 4,783 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 1978 | 5,643 kg/ha | +18.0% |
| 1979 | 5,991 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1980 | 6,143 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1981 | 6,284 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1982 | 6,416 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1983 | 6,768 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1984 | 6,283 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 1985 | 6,421 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1986 | 6,661 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1987 | 6,990 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1988 | 7,182 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1989 | 6,878 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1990 | 7,155 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1991 | 7,068 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1992 | 7,050 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1993 | 2,814 kg/ha | -60.1% |
| 1994 | 2,899 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1995 | 3,293 kg/ha | +13.6% |
| 1996 | 3,475 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1997 | 3,098 kg/ha | -10.8% |
| 1998 | 3,269 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1999 | 2,893 kg/ha | -11.5% |
| 2000 | 2,981 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2001 | 2,775 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 2002 | 2,731 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2003 | 2,945 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 2004 | 3,065 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2005 | 3,040 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2006 | 3,285 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 2007 | 3,363 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2008 | 3,488 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2009 | 3,639 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 2010 | 3,752 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2011 | 3,851 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2012 | 4,030 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2013 | 3,984 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2014 | 4,012 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2015 | 4,318 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 2016 | 4,065 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 2017 | 4,133 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2018 | 4,163 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2019 | 4,128 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2020 | 4,138 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 4,258 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2022 | 4,293 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2023 | 4,154 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2024 | 4,182 kg/ha | +0.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,424 kg/ha | 2,408 kg/ha | 2,437 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,736 kg/ha | 2,431 kg/ha | 5,991 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,603 kg/ha | 6,143 kg/ha | 7,182 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,301 kg/ha | 2,814 kg/ha | 7,155 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,131 kg/ha | 2,731 kg/ha | 3,639 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,044 kg/ha | 3,752 kg/ha | 4,318 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,205 kg/ha | 4,138 kg/ha | 4,293 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 Eastern Africa?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Eastern Africa was 4,182 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 Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 7,182 kg/ha in 1988.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,408 kg/ha in 1964.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Eastern Africa ranks 24th 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 Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern 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 — 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.