Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guyana
Guyana: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 5,680 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guyana, 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 Guyana stood at 5,680 kg/ha.
The figure is down 1.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guyana peaked at 7,692 kg/ha in 1994 and was at its lowest, 5,556 kg/ha, in 2015.
That places Guyana 59th out of 74 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 Guyana, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,400 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,493 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1963 | 6,370 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1964 | 6,382 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1965 | 5,604 kg/ha | -12.2% |
| 1966 | 6,166 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1967 | 6,079 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1968 | 6,165 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1969 | 6,904 kg/ha | +12.0% |
| 1970 | 6,950 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1971 | 6,434 kg/ha | -7.4% |
| 1972 | 6,584 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1973 | 6,570 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1974 | 6,537 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1975 | 6,871 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1976 | 6,404 kg/ha | -6.8% |
| 1977 | 7,204 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 1978 | 6,875 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1979 | 6,720 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1980 | 6,628 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1981 | 6,531 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1982 | 6,552 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1983 | 7,129 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1984 | 7,058 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1985 | 7,360 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1986 | 6,977 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1987 | 7,046 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1988 | 7,500 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1989 | 7,273 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1990 | 7,000 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1991 | 7,308 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1992 | 7,398 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1993 | 7,500 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1994 | 7,692 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1995 | 7,578 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1996 | 7,484 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1997 | 7,408 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1998 | 7,332 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1999 | 7,256 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2000 | 7,182 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2001 | 7,109 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2002 | 6,948 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2003 | 6,704 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2004 | 6,603 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2005 | 6,492 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2006 | 6,381 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2007 | 6,274 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2008 | 6,171 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2009 | 6,074 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2010 | 5,982 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2011 | 5,894 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2012 | 5,769 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2013 | 5,769 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 5,752 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2015 | 5,556 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2016 | 5,703 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2017 | 5,678 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2018 | 5,678 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2019 | 5,687 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 5,676 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2021 | 5,680 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 5,681 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 5,680 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2024 | 5,680 kg/ha | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,285 kg/ha | 5,604 kg/ha | 6,904 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,715 kg/ha | 6,404 kg/ha | 7,204 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,005 kg/ha | 6,531 kg/ha | 7,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,396 kg/ha | 7,000 kg/ha | 7,692 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,594 kg/ha | 6,074 kg/ha | 7,182 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,747 kg/ha | 5,556 kg/ha | 5,982 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,680 kg/ha | 5,676 kg/ha | 5,681 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 Guyana?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Guyana was 5,680 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 Guyana?
- The highest recorded value was 7,692 kg/ha in 1994.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Guyana?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,556 kg/ha in 2015.
- How does Guyana rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Guyana ranks 59th 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 Guyana?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Guyana 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.