Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 42,221 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Australia and New Zealand, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Australia and New Zealand recorded 42,221 kg/ha for roots and tubers, total — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 1.3% on the previous year and up 3.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Australia and New Zealand peaked at 42,221 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 14,335 kg/ha, in 1961.
Australia and New Zealand ranks 7th of 191 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Australia and New Zealand, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 14,335 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 15,563 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1963 | 15,728 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1964 | 15,192 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1965 | 16,418 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 1966 | 17,683 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1967 | 18,062 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1968 | 18,072 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1969 | 19,820 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 1970 | 19,797 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1971 | 21,680 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 1972 | 21,906 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1973 | 21,620 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1974 | 20,307 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 1975 | 20,725 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1976 | 21,811 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1977 | 22,641 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1978 | 22,047 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1979 | 23,242 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1980 | 24,070 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1981 | 24,552 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1982 | 25,575 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1983 | 23,906 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1984 | 27,278 kg/ha | +14.1% |
| 1985 | 26,293 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1986 | 27,464 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1987 | 27,846 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1988 | 27,454 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1989 | 28,037 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1990 | 29,208 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1991 | 29,072 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1992 | 29,416 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1993 | 31,786 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 1994 | 31,831 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1995 | 32,808 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1996 | 33,659 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1997 | 33,575 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1998 | 32,565 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1999 | 33,863 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2000 | 31,123 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 2001 | 34,980 kg/ha | +12.4% |
| 2002 | 36,934 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2003 | 36,797 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2004 | 37,709 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2005 | 36,232 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 2006 | 36,253 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2007 | 37,505 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2008 | 38,922 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2009 | 38,076 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2010 | 37,446 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2011 | 37,509 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 39,855 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 2013 | 39,874 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 40,757 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2015 | 40,578 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2016 | 41,590 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2017 | 40,667 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2018 | 41,433 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2019 | 39,948 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2020 | 41,763 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2021 | 41,981 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2022 | 41,704 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2023 | 41,674 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2024 | 42,221 kg/ha | +1.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16,764 kg/ha | 14,335 kg/ha | 19,820 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 21,578 kg/ha | 19,797 kg/ha | 23,242 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 26,247 kg/ha | 23,906 kg/ha | 28,037 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 31,778 kg/ha | 29,072 kg/ha | 33,863 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 36,453 kg/ha | 31,123 kg/ha | 38,922 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 39,966 kg/ha | 37,446 kg/ha | 41,590 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 41,868 kg/ha | 41,674 kg/ha | 42,221 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Australia and New Zealand
- 4 Belgium-Luxembourg 45,136 kg/ha compare
- 4 Syrian Arab Republic 23,888 kg/ha compare
- 5 Germany 45,015 kg/ha compare
- 6 France 42,436 kg/ha compare
- 6 Viet Nam 19,186 kg/ha compare
- 7 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 15,956 kg/ha compare
- 8 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 41,703 kg/ha compare
- 9 Canada 41,658 kg/ha compare
- 9 Melanesia 8,699 kg/ha compare
- 10 Australia 40,838 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Australia and New Zealand?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Australia and New Zealand was 42,221 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 Australia and New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 42,221 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 14,335 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Australia and New Zealand rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Australia and New Zealand ranks 7th out of 191 countries with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Australia and New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Australia and New Zealand 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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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.