Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 8,242 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Dominican Republic, 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 Dominican Republic is 8,242 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 4.5% on the previous year and down 4.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Dominican Republic peaked at 9,330 kg/ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 4,353 kg/ha, in 1978.
That places Dominican Republic 152nd out of 191 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Dominican Republic, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,121 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,048 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1963 | 6,131 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1964 | 6,205 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1965 | 6,148 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1966 | 6,217 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1967 | 6,159 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1968 | 6,089 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1969 | 6,078 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1970 | 6,180 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1971 | 6,110 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1972 | 5,972 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1973 | 5,513 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 1974 | 4,536 kg/ha | -17.7% |
| 1975 | 5,056 kg/ha | +11.4% |
| 1976 | 4,997 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1977 | 6,199 kg/ha | +24.0% |
| 1978 | 4,353 kg/ha | -29.8% |
| 1979 | 5,425 kg/ha | +24.6% |
| 1980 | 5,497 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1981 | 5,146 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 1982 | 5,749 kg/ha | +11.7% |
| 1983 | 5,865 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1984 | 6,613 kg/ha | +12.8% |
| 1985 | 6,287 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 1986 | 5,000 kg/ha | -20.5% |
| 1987 | 6,093 kg/ha | +21.9% |
| 1988 | 6,523 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 1989 | 6,852 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1990 | 6,636 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1991 | 7,561 kg/ha | +13.9% |
| 1992 | 5,853 kg/ha | -22.6% |
| 1993 | 6,173 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1994 | 6,521 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1995 | 6,299 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1996 | 6,335 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1997 | 6,334 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1998 | 6,298 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1999 | 6,887 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 2000 | 7,079 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2001 | 8,031 kg/ha | +13.5% |
| 2002 | 7,798 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2003 | 8,758 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 2004 | 8,592 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2005 | 7,546 kg/ha | -12.2% |
| 2006 | 7,798 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2007 | 8,060 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2008 | 7,920 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2009 | 8,244 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2010 | 8,877 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 2011 | 8,492 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2012 | 8,384 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2013 | 8,348 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2014 | 8,634 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2015 | 8,430 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2016 | 8,687 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2017 | 8,672 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2018 | 8,866 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2019 | 8,981 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2020 | 9,291 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2021 | 9,330 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2022 | 7,284 kg/ha | -21.9% |
| 2023 | 7,887 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 2024 | 8,242 kg/ha | +4.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,133 kg/ha | 6,048 kg/ha | 6,217 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,434 kg/ha | 4,353 kg/ha | 6,199 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,963 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 6,852 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,490 kg/ha | 5,853 kg/ha | 7,561 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,983 kg/ha | 7,079 kg/ha | 8,758 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,637 kg/ha | 8,348 kg/ha | 8,981 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,407 kg/ha | 7,284 kg/ha | 9,330 kg/ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.94 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.046 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 509.02 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4279 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2748 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 4.6% (2025)
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- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.5% (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Dominican Republic?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Dominican Republic was 8,242 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 Dominican Republic?
- The highest recorded value was 9,330 kg/ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Dominican Republic?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,353 kg/ha in 1978.
- How does Dominican Republic rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Dominican Republic ranks 152nd out of 191 countries with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Dominican Republic?
- Over the last ten years it is down 4.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Dominican Republic 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.