Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Congo
Congo: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 10,255 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Congo, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Congo recorded 10,255 kg/ha for roots and tubers, total — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.4% on the previous year and up 1.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Congo peaked at 10,255 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 4,605 kg/ha, in 1969.
Congo ranks 144th 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 | 4,857 kg/ha | 4,605 kg/ha | 5,013 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,412 kg/ha | 4,632 kg/ha | 6,709 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,972 kg/ha | 6,352 kg/ha | 7,206 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,592 kg/ha | 6,504 kg/ha | 8,836 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,137 kg/ha | 8,845 kg/ha | 9,736 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,891 kg/ha | 9,651 kg/ha | 10,204 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,209 kg/ha | 10,179 kg/ha | 10,255 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Congo
- 141 Cabo Verde 10,604 kg/ha compare
- 142 Guadeloupe 10,432 kg/ha compare
- 143 Dominica 10,417 kg/ha compare
- 145 Sierra Leone 10,184 kg/ha compare
- 146 Trinidad and Tobago 9,629 kg/ha compare
- 147 Somalia 9,563 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Congo
- Agriculture share gdp 10.11 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 10.11 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.4% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
- Rural population 35.9% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.7% (2025)
- Rural population 2.33 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 10.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.65 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 86,254 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Congo?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Congo was 10,255 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 Congo?
- The highest recorded value was 10,255 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Congo?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,605 kg/ha in 1969.
- How does Congo rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Congo ranks 144th out of 207 countries with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Congo?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Congo 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.