Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Tuvalu
Tuvalu: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 7,070 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Tuvalu, 1991–2024
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 Tuvalu stood at 7,070 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 34 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 1.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Tuvalu peaked at 7,070 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 6,500 kg/ha, in 1991.
Tuvalu ranks 47th of 74 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 34 years of available data.
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Tuvalu, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 6,500 kg/ha | — |
| 1992 | 6,564 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1993 | 6,597 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1994 | 6,621 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1995 | 6,641 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1996 | 6,659 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1997 | 6,677 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1998 | 6,694 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1999 | 6,711 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2000 | 6,729 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2001 | 6,746 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2002 | 6,764 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2003 | 6,781 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2004 | 6,798 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2005 | 6,816 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2006 | 6,833 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2007 | 6,850 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2008 | 6,869 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2009 | 6,888 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2010 | 6,907 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2011 | 6,926 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2012 | 7,000 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2013 | 6,954 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2014 | 6,950 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2015 | 6,941 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 6,961 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2017 | 6,981 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 7,001 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2019 | 7,020 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2020 | 7,031 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 7,046 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 7,048 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 7,059 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 7,070 kg/ha | +0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 6,629 kg/ha | 6,500 kg/ha | 6,711 kg/ha | 9 |
| 2000s | 6,807 kg/ha | 6,729 kg/ha | 6,888 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,964 kg/ha | 6,907 kg/ha | 7,020 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 7,051 kg/ha | 7,031 kg/ha | 7,070 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Tuvalu
- 44 Sri Lanka 7,550 kg/ha compare
- 45 Eswatini 7,270 kg/ha compare
- 46 Mozambique 7,103 kg/ha compare
- 48 Ethiopia PDR 7,027 kg/ha
- 49 Peru 6,951 kg/ha compare
- 50 Bulgaria 6,667 kg/ha
More agriculture & rural data for Tuvalu
- Rural population, per capita 0.3456 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -17.15 % change on previous year (2015)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1594 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2015)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 534.44 current US$ per person (2015)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -3.61 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population 34.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.1% (2008)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.86 million current US$ (2015)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 15.9% (2015)
Frequently asked questions
- What is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Tuvalu?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Tuvalu was 7,070 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 Tuvalu?
- The highest recorded value was 7,070 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Tuvalu?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,500 kg/ha in 1991.
- How does Tuvalu rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Tuvalu ranks 47th 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 Tuvalu?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Tuvalu 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.