Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Brazil
Brazil: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 16,891 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Brazil, 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 Brazil is 16,891 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 0.4% on the previous year and up 7.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Brazil peaked at 16,963 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 10,545 kg/ha, in 1983.
Brazil ranks 93rd of 191 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.
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Brazil, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 11,969 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 12,321 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1963 | 12,653 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1964 | 13,046 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1965 | 13,164 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1966 | 12,953 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1967 | 13,340 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1968 | 13,656 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1969 | 13,834 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1970 | 13,688 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1971 | 13,766 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1972 | 13,830 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1973 | 12,092 kg/ha | -12.6% |
| 1974 | 11,942 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1975 | 12,288 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1976 | 11,793 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1977 | 11,596 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1978 | 11,516 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1979 | 11,587 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1980 | 11,438 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1981 | 11,684 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1982 | 11,282 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1983 | 10,545 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1984 | 11,762 kg/ha | +11.5% |
| 1985 | 12,244 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1986 | 12,267 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1987 | 12,132 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1988 | 12,268 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1989 | 12,525 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1990 | 12,561 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1991 | 12,614 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1992 | 12,096 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1993 | 12,197 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1994 | 13,222 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 1995 | 13,143 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1996 | 11,910 kg/ha | -9.4% |
| 1997 | 12,926 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 1998 | 12,584 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1999 | 13,477 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 2000 | 13,660 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2001 | 13,834 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2002 | 14,152 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2003 | 13,902 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2004 | 14,086 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2005 | 14,070 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2006 | 14,494 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2007 | 14,610 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2008 | 14,806 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2009 | 14,521 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2010 | 14,668 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2011 | 15,396 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 2012 | 14,524 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 2013 | 15,010 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2014 | 15,697 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 2015 | 16,200 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2016 | 16,134 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2017 | 15,834 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2018 | 15,978 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2019 | 16,029 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2020 | 16,273 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2021 | 16,366 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2022 | 16,450 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2023 | 16,963 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2024 | 16,891 kg/ha | -0.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12,993 kg/ha | 11,969 kg/ha | 13,834 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 12,410 kg/ha | 11,516 kg/ha | 13,830 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 11,815 kg/ha | 10,545 kg/ha | 12,525 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 12,673 kg/ha | 11,910 kg/ha | 13,477 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 14,213 kg/ha | 13,660 kg/ha | 14,806 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 15,547 kg/ha | 14,524 kg/ha | 16,200 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 16,589 kg/ha | 16,273 kg/ha | 16,963 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Brazil?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Brazil was 16,891 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 Brazil?
- The highest recorded value was 16,963 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Brazil?
- The lowest recorded value was 10,545 kg/ha in 1983.
- How does Brazil rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Brazil ranks 93rd out of 191 countries with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Brazil?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Brazil 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.