Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Namibia
Namibia: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 8,631 kg/ha in 2024. ▬ Flat
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Namibia, 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 Namibia is 8,631 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Namibia peaked at 8,974 kg/ha in 2013 and was at its lowest, 8,235 kg/ha, in 1961.
Namibia ranks 37th of 74 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Namibia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 8,235 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 8,333 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1963 | 8,444 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1964 | 8,421 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1965 | 8,526 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1966 | 8,579 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1967 | 8,684 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1968 | 8,684 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 8,400 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1970 | 8,450 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1971 | 8,500 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1972 | 8,550 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1973 | 8,750 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1974 | 8,750 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 8,476 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1976 | 8,476 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 8,571 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1978 | 8,667 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1979 | 8,364 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1980 | 8,364 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 8,546 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1982 | 8,636 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1983 | 8,773 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1984 | 8,609 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1985 | 8,696 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1986 | 8,783 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1987 | 8,583 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1988 | 8,750 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1989 | 8,750 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 8,480 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1991 | 8,447 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1992 | 8,478 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1993 | 8,333 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1994 | 8,400 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1995 | 8,462 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1996 | 8,518 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1997 | 8,571 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1998 | 8,448 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1999 | 8,487 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2000 | 8,500 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2001 | 8,438 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2002 | 8,508 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2003 | 8,551 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2004 | 8,472 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2005 | 8,514 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2006 | 8,421 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2007 | 8,462 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2008 | 8,511 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2009 | 8,514 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 8,462 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2011 | 8,512 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2012 | 8,408 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2013 | 8,974 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 2014 | 8,660 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2015 | 8,589 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2016 | 8,602 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 8,612 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 8,622 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 8,630 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 8,636 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 8,630 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2022 | 8,632 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 8,633 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 8,631 kg/ha | -0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,479 kg/ha | 8,235 kg/ha | 8,684 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,555 kg/ha | 8,364 kg/ha | 8,750 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 8,649 kg/ha | 8,364 kg/ha | 8,783 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,463 kg/ha | 8,333 kg/ha | 8,571 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,489 kg/ha | 8,421 kg/ha | 8,551 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,607 kg/ha | 8,408 kg/ha | 8,974 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,632 kg/ha | 8,630 kg/ha | 8,636 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Namibia
- 34 Cameroon 9,043 kg/ha compare
- 35 Guadeloupe 8,784 kg/ha compare
- 36 Tonga 8,706 kg/ha compare
- 38 Vanuatu 8,286 kg/ha compare
- 39 Costa Rica 8,067 kg/ha compare
- 40 Trinidad and Tobago 8,030 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Namibia?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Namibia was 8,631 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 Namibia?
- The highest recorded value was 8,974 kg/ha in 2013.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Namibia?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,235 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Namibia rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Namibia ranks 37th 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 Namibia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Namibia 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.