Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Cameroon
Cameroon: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 10,949 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Cameroon, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, roots and tubers, total — yield in Cameroon stood at 10,949 kg/ha.
The figure is up 8.6% on the previous year and up 0.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Cameroon peaked at 11,959 kg/ha in 2013 and was at its lowest, 3,662 kg/ha, in 1969.
Cameroon ranks 136th 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 | 4,269 kg/ha | 3,662 kg/ha | 4,652 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,170 kg/ha | 3,916 kg/ha | 4,498 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,450 kg/ha | 4,301 kg/ha | 8,054 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,915 kg/ha | 7,321 kg/ha | 9,162 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,121 kg/ha | 5,937 kg/ha | 10,679 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,946 kg/ha | 10,323 kg/ha | 11,959 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,682 kg/ha | 10,078 kg/ha | 11,074 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Cameroon
- Agriculture share gdp 16.85 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.85 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
- Rural population 44.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.0% (2025)
- Rural population 13.25 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.8% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.93 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 805,353 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Cameroon?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Cameroon was 10,949 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 Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 11,959 kg/ha in 2013.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,662 kg/ha in 1969.
- How does Cameroon rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Cameroon ranks 136th out of 207 countries with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cameroon 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.