Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 10,077 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Zimbabwe, 1984–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Zimbabwe recorded 10,077 kg/ha for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in 2024. That is the highest value across all 41 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 0.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Zimbabwe peaked at 10,077 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 5,000 kg/ha, in 1984.
That places Zimbabwe 30th 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 41 years of available data.
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Zimbabwe, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 5,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1985 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 5,647 kg/ha | +12.9% |
| 1991 | 9,740 kg/ha | +72.5% |
| 1992 | 9,758 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1993 | 9,776 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1994 | 9,793 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1995 | 9,811 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1996 | 9,828 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1997 | 9,846 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1998 | 9,864 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1999 | 9,881 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2000 | 9,899 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2001 | 9,917 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2002 | 9,934 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 9,952 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2004 | 9,962 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2005 | 9,964 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 9,965 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 9,967 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 9,969 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 9,971 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 9,981 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2011 | 9,988 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2012 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2013 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 10,008 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 10,024 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 10,032 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 10,036 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 10,042 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 10,050 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 10,056 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 10,066 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 10,065 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2023 | 10,071 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 10,077 kg/ha | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5,000 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 6 |
| 1990s | 9,394 kg/ha | 5,647 kg/ha | 9,881 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,950 kg/ha | 9,899 kg/ha | 9,971 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,016 kg/ha | 9,981 kg/ha | 10,050 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,067 kg/ha | 10,056 kg/ha | 10,077 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 Zimbabwe?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Zimbabwe was 10,077 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 Zimbabwe?
- The highest recorded value was 10,077 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,000 kg/ha in 1984.
- How does Zimbabwe rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Zimbabwe ranks 30th 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 Zimbabwe?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Zimbabwe 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.