Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 7,550 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Sri Lanka, 2019–2024
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 Sri Lanka stood at 7,550 kg/ha. That is the lowest value across all 6 years on record.
The figure is down 20.1% on the previous year and down 29.4% over ten years.
Sri Lanka ranks 44th 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 Sri Lanka, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 10,688 kg/ha | — |
| 2020 | 9,870 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 2021 | 10,234 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2022 | 9,179 kg/ha | -10.3% |
| 2023 | 9,451 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2024 | 7,550 kg/ha | -20.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 10,688 kg/ha | 10,688 kg/ha | 10,688 kg/ha | 1 |
| 2020s | 9,257 kg/ha | 7,550 kg/ha | 10,234 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Sri Lanka
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 9.1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0836 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 418.3 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.9172 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7955 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 8.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 8.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Sri Lanka?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Sri Lanka was 7,550 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 Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 10,688 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,550 kg/ha in 2024.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Sri Lanka ranks 44th 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 Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is down 29.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Sri Lanka 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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About this data
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.