Roots and Tubers, Total — Production in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs): Roots and Tubers, Total — Production was 170.16 million t in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Roots and Tubers, Total — Production in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) recorded 170.16 million t for roots and tubers, total — production in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.3% on the previous year and up 31.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — production in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) peaked at 170.16 million t in 2024 and was at its lowest, 29.24 million t, in 1961.
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 5th of 29 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Roots and Tubers, Total — Production in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 29.24 million t | — |
| 1962 | 30.00 million t | +2.6% |
| 1963 | 30.34 million t | +1.2% |
| 1964 | 30.42 million t | +0.3% |
| 1965 | 31.75 million t | +4.4% |
| 1966 | 31.38 million t | -1.2% |
| 1967 | 32.99 million t | +5.1% |
| 1968 | 33.44 million t | +1.4% |
| 1969 | 34.18 million t | +2.2% |
| 1970 | 36.98 million t | +8.2% |
| 1971 | 36.87 million t | -0.3% |
| 1972 | 37.73 million t | +2.3% |
| 1973 | 38.83 million t | +2.9% |
| 1974 | 41.04 million t | +5.7% |
| 1975 | 44.35 million t | +8.1% |
| 1976 | 44.79 million t | +1.0% |
| 1977 | 45.39 million t | +1.4% |
| 1978 | 45.05 million t | -0.8% |
| 1979 | 45.81 million t | +1.7% |
| 1980 | 46.28 million t | +1.0% |
| 1981 | 48.89 million t | +5.6% |
| 1982 | 52.02 million t | +6.4% |
| 1983 | 54.08 million t | +4.0% |
| 1984 | 53.52 million t | -1.0% |
| 1985 | 56.26 million t | +5.1% |
| 1986 | 57.72 million t | +2.6% |
| 1987 | 56.40 million t | -2.3% |
| 1988 | 57.97 million t | +2.8% |
| 1989 | 59.49 million t | +2.6% |
| 1990 | 63.63 million t | +7.0% |
| 1991 | 63.30 million t | -0.5% |
| 1992 | 63.05 million t | -0.4% |
| 1993 | 60.85 million t | -3.5% |
| 1994 | 60.75 million t | -0.2% |
| 1995 | 58.71 million t | -3.4% |
| 1996 | 60.32 million t | +2.7% |
| 1997 | 63.28 million t | +4.9% |
| 1998 | 66.90 million t | +5.7% |
| 1999 | 71.79 million t | +7.3% |
| 2000 | 75.54 million t | +5.2% |
| 2001 | 79.12 million t | +4.7% |
| 2002 | 75.74 million t | -4.3% |
| 2003 | 78.97 million t | +4.3% |
| 2004 | 82.59 million t | +4.6% |
| 2005 | 84.06 million t | +1.8% |
| 2006 | 86.98 million t | +3.5% |
| 2007 | 87.41 million t | +0.5% |
| 2008 | 86.83 million t | -0.7% |
| 2009 | 93.68 million t | +7.9% |
| 2010 | 115.05 million t | +22.8% |
| 2011 | 120.17 million t | +4.4% |
| 2012 | 125.14 million t | +4.1% |
| 2013 | 129.05 million t | +3.1% |
| 2014 | 129.47 million t | +0.3% |
| 2015 | 131.56 million t | +1.6% |
| 2016 | 133.44 million t | +1.4% |
| 2017 | 136.90 million t | +2.6% |
| 2018 | 148.26 million t | +8.3% |
| 2019 | 149.94 million t | +1.1% |
| 2020 | 155.15 million t | +3.5% |
| 2021 | 159.30 million t | +2.7% |
| 2022 | 162.25 million t | +1.9% |
| 2023 | 166.40 million t | +2.6% |
| 2024 | 170.16 million t | +2.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 31.53 million t | 29.24 million t | 34.18 million t | 9 |
| 1970s | 41.68 million t | 36.87 million t | 45.81 million t | 10 |
| 1980s | 54.26 million t | 46.28 million t | 59.49 million t | 10 |
| 1990s | 63.26 million t | 58.71 million t | 71.79 million t | 10 |
| 2000s | 83.09 million t | 75.54 million t | 93.68 million t | 10 |
| 2010s | 131.90 million t | 115.05 million t | 149.94 million t | 10 |
| 2020s | 162.65 million t | 155.15 million t | 170.16 million t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
- 2 China, mainland 153.18 million t compare
- 3 Nigeria 141.87 million t compare
- 4 Democratic Republic of the Congo 48.41 million t compare
- 4 India 65.62 million t compare
- 5 United Republic of Tanzania 13.33 million t compare
- 5 USSR 64.84 million t compare
- 6 Ghana 39.94 million t compare
- 6 Lao People's Democratic Republic 12.57 million t compare
- 7 Thailand 29.13 million t compare
- 7 Viet Nam 11.86 million t compare
- 8 Brazil 24.48 million t compare
- 8 Türkiye 6.90 million t compare
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- Pulses, Total — Yield, annual growth rate 4.33 % change on previous year (2024)
- Pulses, Total — Production, annual growth rate 3.38 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Area harvested, annual growth rate 0.3601 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield, annual growth rate 1.89 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sheep and Goat Meat — Production, annual growth rate 3.62 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sheep and Goats — Stocks, annual growth rate 2.71 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered, annual growth 1.06 % change on previous year (2024)
- Pulses, Total — Area harvested, annual growth rate -0.9081 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sheep and Goat Meat — Yield/Carcass Weight, annual growth rate 7.14 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — production in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Roots and tubers, total — production in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) was 170.16 million t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest roots and tubers, total — production recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 170.16 million t in 2024.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — production recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 29.24 million t in 1961.
- How does Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) rank for roots and tubers, total — production?
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 5th out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — production rising or falling in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 31.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Roots and Tubers, Total — Production. 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.