Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Botswana
Botswana: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 12,224 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Botswana, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Botswana recorded 12,224 kg/ha for roots and tubers, total — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.9% on the previous year and up 4.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Botswana peaked at 12,610 kg/ha in 2018 and was at its lowest, 5,000 kg/ha, in 1961.
Botswana ranks 129th of 207 countries 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 | 5,329 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 5,738 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,507 kg/ha | 6,129 kg/ha | 6,923 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,132 kg/ha | 6,622 kg/ha | 7,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,641 kg/ha | 7,500 kg/ha | 7,791 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,894 kg/ha | 7,599 kg/ha | 10,602 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,847 kg/ha | 10,939 kg/ha | 12,610 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 12,053 kg/ha | 11,698 kg/ha | 12,224 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Botswana
- 126 Costa Rica 12,941 kg/ha compare
- 127 Mongolia 12,818 kg/ha compare
- 128 Seychelles 12,285 kg/ha compare
- 130 French Polynesia 12,210 kg/ha compare
- 131 El Salvador 12,203 kg/ha compare
- 132 Serbia and Montenegro 11,562 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Botswana
- Agriculture share gdp 1.78 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.78 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2023)
- Rural population 32.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.1% (2025)
- Rural population 821,007 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.8% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 354.96 million current US$ (2025)
- Tomatoes — Production 4,023 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Botswana?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Botswana was 12,224 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 Botswana?
- The highest recorded value was 12,610 kg/ha in 2018.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Botswana?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,000 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Botswana rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Botswana ranks 129th out of 207 countries with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Botswana?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Botswana 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.