Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Kenya
Kenya: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 7,681 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Kenya, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Kenya is 7,681 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Kenya peaked at 15,000 kg/ha in 1992 and was at its lowest, 3,257 kg/ha, in 2002.
That places Kenya 41st 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 Kenya, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 6,000 kg/ha | +20.0% |
| 1986 | 6,500 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1987 | 6,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 7,500 kg/ha | +15.4% |
| 1989 | 8,523 kg/ha | +13.6% |
| 1990 | 10,487 kg/ha | +23.1% |
| 1991 | 9,208 kg/ha | -12.2% |
| 1992 | 15,000 kg/ha | +62.9% |
| 1993 | 4,461 kg/ha | -70.3% |
| 1994 | 4,824 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 1995 | 8,421 kg/ha | +74.5% |
| 1996 | 13,566 kg/ha | +61.1% |
| 1997 | 8,445 kg/ha | -37.7% |
| 1998 | 14,390 kg/ha | +70.4% |
| 1999 | 6,539 kg/ha | -54.6% |
| 2000 | 7,079 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 2001 | 6,058 kg/ha | -14.4% |
| 2002 | 3,257 kg/ha | -46.2% |
| 2003 | 7,272 kg/ha | +123.3% |
| 2004 | 7,379 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2005 | 6,530 kg/ha | -11.5% |
| 2006 | 7,266 kg/ha | +11.3% |
| 2007 | 8,465 kg/ha | +16.5% |
| 2008 | 7,825 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 2009 | 7,711 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2010 | 7,675 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2011 | 7,631 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2012 | 8,044 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2013 | 8,044 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 7,632 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 2015 | 7,725 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2016 | 7,592 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2017 | 7,539 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2018 | 7,540 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 7,519 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2020 | 7,520 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 7,608 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2022 | 7,686 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2023 | 7,683 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2024 | 7,681 kg/ha | -0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,000 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,000 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,002 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 8,523 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,534 kg/ha | 4,461 kg/ha | 15,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,884 kg/ha | 3,257 kg/ha | 8,465 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,694 kg/ha | 7,519 kg/ha | 8,044 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 7,635 kg/ha | 7,520 kg/ha | 7,686 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 Kenya?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Kenya was 7,681 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 Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 15,000 kg/ha in 1992.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,257 kg/ha in 2002.
- How does Kenya rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Kenya ranks 41st 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 Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Kenya 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.