Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Tonga
Tonga: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 8,706 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Tonga, 1975–2024
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 Tonga is 8,706 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 0.3% on the previous year and up 3.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Tonga peaked at 9,836 kg/ha in 1989 and was at its lowest, 8,000 kg/ha, in 2000.
Tonga ranks 36th of 74 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 50 years of available data.
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Tonga, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 8,750 kg/ha | — |
| 1976 | 8,889 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1977 | 9,000 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1978 | 9,091 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1979 | 9,231 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1980 | 9,333 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1981 | 9,412 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1982 | 8,824 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 1983 | 8,182 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1984 | 8,333 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1985 | 9,577 kg/ha | +14.9% |
| 1986 | 9,615 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1987 | 9,630 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1988 | 9,655 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1989 | 9,836 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1990 | 9,722 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1991 | 9,412 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1992 | 9,524 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1993 | 9,304 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1994 | 9,197 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1995 | 9,265 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1996 | 8,779 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1997 | 8,621 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1998 | 8,248 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1999 | 8,254 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2000 | 8,000 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2001 | 8,333 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2002 | 8,185 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2003 | 8,000 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2004 | 8,122 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2005 | 8,140 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2006 | 8,155 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2007 | 8,148 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2008 | 8,188 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2009 | 8,202 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2010 | 8,216 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2011 | 8,231 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 8,269 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2013 | 8,397 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2014 | 8,378 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2015 | 8,196 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2016 | 8,631 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2017 | 8,622 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2018 | 8,612 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2019 | 8,625 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 8,623 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2021 | 8,655 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2022 | 8,700 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2023 | 8,734 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2024 | 8,706 kg/ha | -0.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 8,992 kg/ha | 8,750 kg/ha | 9,231 kg/ha | 5 |
| 1980s | 9,240 kg/ha | 8,182 kg/ha | 9,836 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,032 kg/ha | 8,248 kg/ha | 9,722 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,147 kg/ha | 8,000 kg/ha | 8,333 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,418 kg/ha | 8,196 kg/ha | 8,631 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,684 kg/ha | 8,623 kg/ha | 8,734 kg/ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 7.27 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1857 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Tonga?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Tonga was 8,706 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 Tonga?
- The highest recorded value was 9,836 kg/ha in 1989.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Tonga?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,000 kg/ha in 2000.
- How does Tonga rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Tonga ranks 36th 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 Tonga?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Tonga 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.