Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Caribbean
Caribbean: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 6,078 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Caribbean, 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 Caribbean is 6,078 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.8% on the previous year and down 14.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Caribbean peaked at 7,256 kg/ha in 2013 and was at its lowest, 4,050 kg/ha, in 1994.
Caribbean ranks 36th of 41 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,040 kg/ha | 4,992 kg/ha | 5,105 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,143 kg/ha | 4,948 kg/ha | 5,486 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,185 kg/ha | 4,837 kg/ha | 5,624 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,787 kg/ha | 4,050 kg/ha | 5,773 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,230 kg/ha | 5,728 kg/ha | 7,038 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,634 kg/ha | 5,960 kg/ha | 7,256 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,209 kg/ha | 6,028 kg/ha | 6,363 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Caribbean
More agriculture & rural data for Caribbean
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 51,432 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 2.72 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 150,870 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 29,645 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 21,901 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 513,993 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 9,994 kg/ha (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production 7,589 t (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Production 16.11 million t (2024)
- Vegetables Primary — Area harvested 257,057 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Caribbean?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Caribbean was 6,078 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 Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 7,256 kg/ha in 2013.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,050 kg/ha in 1994.
- How does Caribbean rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Caribbean ranks 36th out of 41 groups with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is down 14.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Caribbean 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.