Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Peru
Peru: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 6,951 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Peru, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Peru recorded 6,951 kg/ha for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.1% on the previous year and up 6.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Peru peaked at 9,764 kg/ha in 2012 and was at its lowest, 3,510 kg/ha, in 1979.
That places Peru 49th 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 Peru, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,651 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,692 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1963 | 4,530 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1964 | 4,364 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1965 | 4,404 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1966 | 3,936 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 1967 | 4,106 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1968 | 3,898 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1969 | 4,115 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1970 | 4,259 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1971 | 4,140 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1972 | 4,036 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1973 | 4,223 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1974 | 4,221 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1975 | 4,187 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1976 | 4,160 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1977 | 4,099 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1978 | 4,100 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 3,510 kg/ha | -14.4% |
| 1980 | 4,112 kg/ha | +17.2% |
| 1981 | 4,375 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1982 | 4,452 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1983 | 4,313 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1984 | 4,603 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1985 | 4,588 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1986 | 4,600 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1987 | 4,598 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1988 | 4,598 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 4,582 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1990 | 4,715 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1991 | 4,689 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1992 | 4,857 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1993 | 4,778 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1994 | 4,908 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1995 | 4,868 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1996 | 5,149 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1997 | 5,023 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1998 | 4,555 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 1999 | 4,382 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 2000 | 4,584 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 2001 | 4,633 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2002 | 4,730 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2003 | 5,953 kg/ha | +25.9% |
| 2004 | 5,584 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 2005 | 5,692 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2006 | 5,783 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2007 | 5,820 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2008 | 5,602 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 2009 | 5,747 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2010 | 5,894 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2011 | 6,097 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2012 | 9,764 kg/ha | +60.2% |
| 2013 | 6,532 kg/ha | -33.1% |
| 2014 | 6,550 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2015 | 6,935 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 2016 | 6,495 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 2017 | 6,518 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2018 | 6,878 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 2019 | 6,643 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2020 | 6,979 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2021 | 6,886 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2022 | 6,878 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2023 | 6,956 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2024 | 6,951 kg/ha | -0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,300 kg/ha | 3,898 kg/ha | 4,692 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,093 kg/ha | 3,510 kg/ha | 4,259 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,482 kg/ha | 4,112 kg/ha | 4,603 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,792 kg/ha | 4,382 kg/ha | 5,149 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,413 kg/ha | 4,584 kg/ha | 5,953 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,831 kg/ha | 5,894 kg/ha | 9,764 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,930 kg/ha | 6,878 kg/ha | 6,979 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Peru
- 46 Mozambique 7,103 kg/ha compare
- 47 Tuvalu 7,070 kg/ha compare
- 48 Ethiopia PDR 7,027 kg/ha compare
- 50 Bulgaria 6,667 kg/ha compare
- 51 Morocco 6,661 kg/ha compare
- 52 Guinea-Bissau 6,532 kg/ha compare
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 12.59 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0747 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 637.02 current US$ per person (2024)
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- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.144 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 7.5% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 7.5% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Peru?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Peru was 6,951 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 Peru?
- The highest recorded value was 9,764 kg/ha in 2012.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Peru?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,510 kg/ha in 1979.
- How does Peru rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Peru ranks 49th 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 Peru?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Peru 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.