Roots and Tubers, Total — Area harvested in United Republic of Tanzania

United Republic of Tanzania: Roots and Tubers, Total — Area harvested was 2.05 million ha in 2024. ▲ Rising

Latest (2024)
2.05 million ha
Change on year
down 5.5%
World rank
5th
of 20 countries
All-time high
2.17 million ha
in 2023
All-time low
606,700 ha
in 1961
Years of data
64
1961–2024

Roots and Tubers, Total — Area harvested in United Republic of Tanzania, 1961–2024

500.0k1.0M1.5M2.0M196119922024

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.

Analysis

The most recent figure for roots and tubers, total — area harvested in United Republic of Tanzania is 2.05 million ha, measured in 2024.

That represents a change of down 5.5% on the previous year and up 18.9% over ten years.

Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — area harvested in United Republic of Tanzania peaked at 2.17 million ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 606,700 ha, in 1961.

United Republic of Tanzania ranks 5th of 20 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.

Roots and Tubers, Total — Area harvested in United Republic of Tanzania, year by year

Annual values for Roots and Tubers, Total — Area harvested in United Republic of Tanzania, 1961 to 2024.
Year ha Change
1961 606,700 ha
1962 618,700 ha +2.0%
1963 625,700 ha +1.1%
1964 637,200 ha +1.8%
1965 650,300 ha +2.1%
1966 661,900 ha +1.8%
1967 670,400 ha +1.3%
1968 709,900 ha +5.9%
1969 758,000 ha +6.8%
1970 755,500 ha -0.3%
1971 747,000 ha -1.1%
1972 816,000 ha +9.2%
1973 931,000 ha +14.1%
1974 1.04 million ha +11.3%
1975 882,100 ha -14.9%
1976 772,857 ha -12.4%
1977 660,842 ha -14.5%
1978 682,806 ha +3.3%
1979 695,597 ha +1.9%
1980 696,700 ha +0.2%
1981 639,625 ha -8.2%
1982 770,786 ha +20.5%
1983 851,680 ha +10.5%
1984 855,134 ha +0.4%
1985 1.10 million ha +29.2%
1986 1.01 million ha -8.1%
1987 1.01 million ha -0.6%
1988 942,645 ha -6.5%
1989 1.02 million ha +7.7%
1990 967,811 ha -4.7%
1991 908,192 ha -6.2%
1992 954,255 ha +5.1%
1993 946,211 ha -0.8%
1994 988,447 ha +4.5%
1995 953,032 ha -3.6%
1996 954,064 ha +0.1%
1997 1.00 million ha +4.8%
1998 1.19 million ha +19.4%
1999 1.02 million ha -15.0%
2000 1.29 million ha +27.5%
2001 1.25 million ha -3.4%
2002 1.16 million ha -7.1%
2003 1.09 million ha -6.5%
2004 1.56 million ha +43.8%
2005 1.50 million ha -3.8%
2006 1.63 million ha +8.2%
2007 1.28 million ha -21.4%
2008 1.19 million ha -6.8%
2009 1.93 million ha +62.2%
2010 1.62 million ha -15.9%
2011 1.64 million ha +1.2%
2012 1.78 million ha +8.0%
2013 1.86 million ha +4.6%
2014 1.73 million ha -7.0%
2015 2.02 million ha +16.8%
2016 1.83 million ha -9.5%
2017 2.10 million ha +15.0%
2018 1.61 million ha -23.3%
2019 1.63 million ha +1.0%
2020 1.79 million ha +9.9%
2021 1.96 million ha +9.6%
2022 1.99 million ha +1.7%
2023 2.17 million ha +9.0%
2024 2.05 million ha -5.5%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1960s 659,867 ha 606,700 ha 758,000 ha 9
1970s 797,970 ha 660,842 ha 1.04 million ha 10
1980s 890,039 ha 639,625 ha 1.10 million ha 10
1990s 988,134 ha 908,192 ha 1.19 million ha 10
2000s 1.39 million ha 1.09 million ha 1.93 million ha 10
2010s 1.78 million ha 1.61 million ha 2.10 million ha 10
2020s 1.99 million ha 1.79 million ha 2.17 million ha 5

Countries ranked near United Republic of Tanzania

  1. 2 China 7.30 million ha compare
  2. 3 China, mainland 7.28 million ha compare
  3. 4 Democratic Republic of the Congo 6.03 million ha compare
  4. 4 USSR 6.01 million ha compare
  5. 5 India 2.65 million ha compare
  6. 6 Ghana 1.94 million ha compare
  7. 7 Thailand 1.45 million ha compare
  8. 7 Viet Nam 618,234 ha compare
  9. 8 Brazil 1.45 million ha compare
  10. 8 Lao People's Democratic Republic 450,543 ha compare

See the full ranking of 240 places →

More agriculture & rural data for United Republic of Tanzania

All data for United Republic of Tanzania →

Frequently asked questions

What is roots and tubers, total — area harvested in United Republic of Tanzania?
Roots and tubers, total — area harvested in United Republic of Tanzania was 2.05 million ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest roots and tubers, total — area harvested recorded in United Republic of Tanzania?
The highest recorded value was 2.17 million ha in 2023.
What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — area harvested recorded in United Republic of Tanzania?
The lowest recorded value was 606,700 ha in 1961.
How does United Republic of Tanzania rank for roots and tubers, total — area harvested?
United Republic of Tanzania ranks 5th out of 20 countries with data for 2024.
Is roots and tubers, total — area harvested rising or falling in United Republic of Tanzania?
Over the last ten years it is up 18.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this United Republic of Tanzania data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Roots and Tubers, Total — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 64 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Roots and Tubers, Total — Area harvested in United Republic of Tanzania. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 17 September 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/stat/roots-and-tubers-total-area-harvested/united-republic-of-tanzania/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/stat/roots-and-tubers-total-area-harvested/united-republic-of-tanzania/">Roots and Tubers, Total — Area harvested in United Republic of Tanzania</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Roots and Tubers, Total — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
240 places, 13,936 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.