Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Americas
Americas: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 19,444 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Americas, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for roots and tubers, total — yield in Americas is 19,444 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.5% on the previous year and up 8.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Americas peaked at 19,444 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 11,747 kg/ha, in 1962.
Americas ranks 16th of 29 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12,280 kg/ha | 11,747 kg/ha | 13,008 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 12,668 kg/ha | 12,164 kg/ha | 13,143 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 13,292 kg/ha | 12,353 kg/ha | 13,955 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 14,314 kg/ha | 13,694 kg/ha | 15,133 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 15,650 kg/ha | 15,220 kg/ha | 15,886 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 17,806 kg/ha | 16,368 kg/ha | 18,932 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 19,156 kg/ha | 18,913 kg/ha | 19,444 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Americas
More agriculture & rural data for Americas
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.37 million ha (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 94 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 25.17 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 267.48 million An (2024)
- Bananas — Production 32.73 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 1.02 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 25.19 million t (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 191.53 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 397,122 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 63,435 kg/ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Americas?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Americas was 19,444 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 19,444 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 11,747 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Americas rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Americas ranks 16th out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Americas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Roots and Tubers, Total — 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.