Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 13,729 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Puerto Rico, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Puerto Rico recorded 13,729 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 30.5% on the previous year and up 92.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Puerto Rico peaked at 19,766 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 2,268 kg/ha, in 1995.
Puerto Rico ranks 22nd of 74 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Puerto Rico, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2,895 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,981 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1963 | 3,192 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1964 | 2,889 kg/ha | -9.5% |
| 1965 | 2,886 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1966 | 2,886 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 2,886 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1968 | 3,174 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1969 | 3,486 kg/ha | +9.8% |
| 1970 | 3,515 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1971 | 3,232 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1972 | 3,464 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 1973 | 3,462 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1974 | 7,502 kg/ha | +116.7% |
| 1975 | 4,386 kg/ha | -41.5% |
| 1976 | 4,141 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1977 | 6,464 kg/ha | +56.1% |
| 1978 | 6,671 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1979 | 6,630 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1980 | 6,648 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1981 | 6,645 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1982 | 6,611 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1983 | 6,589 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1984 | 6,469 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1985 | 6,626 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1986 | 6,602 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1987 | 6,601 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1988 | 6,615 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1989 | 6,499 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1990 | 6,588 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1991 | 5,994 kg/ha | -9.0% |
| 1992 | 6,104 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1993 | 2,274 kg/ha | -62.8% |
| 1994 | 2,283 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1995 | 2,268 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1996 | 2,276 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1997 | 2,800 kg/ha | +23.0% |
| 1998 | 4,013 kg/ha | +43.3% |
| 1999 | 2,279 kg/ha | -43.2% |
| 2000 | 2,285 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2001 | 2,313 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2002 | 2,313 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2003 | 9,243 kg/ha | +299.7% |
| 2004 | 9,228 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2005 | 9,231 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 7,548 kg/ha | -18.2% |
| 2007 | 7,500 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2008 | 7,392 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2009 | 7,313 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2010 | 7,232 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2011 | 7,151 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2012 | 7,064 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2013 | 7,066 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 7,131 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2015 | 7,200 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2016 | 7,273 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2017 | 7,347 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2018 | 7,040 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2019 | 8,876 kg/ha | +26.1% |
| 2020 | 11,457 kg/ha | +29.1% |
| 2021 | 14,217 kg/ha | +24.1% |
| 2022 | 19,512 kg/ha | +37.2% |
| 2023 | 19,766 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2024 | 13,729 kg/ha | -30.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,030 kg/ha | 2,886 kg/ha | 3,486 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,947 kg/ha | 3,232 kg/ha | 7,502 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,591 kg/ha | 6,469 kg/ha | 6,648 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,688 kg/ha | 2,268 kg/ha | 6,588 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,437 kg/ha | 2,285 kg/ha | 9,243 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,338 kg/ha | 7,040 kg/ha | 8,876 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 15,736 kg/ha | 11,457 kg/ha | 19,766 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 Puerto Rico?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Puerto Rico was 13,729 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 Puerto Rico?
- The highest recorded value was 19,766 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Puerto Rico?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,268 kg/ha in 1995.
- How does Puerto Rico rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Puerto Rico ranks 22nd 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 Puerto Rico?
- Over the last ten years it is up 92.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Puerto Rico 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.