Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Egypt
Egypt: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 30,356 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Egypt, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, roots and tubers, total — yield in Egypt stood at 30,356 kg/ha.
The figure is down 4.0% on the previous year and up 11.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Egypt peaked at 31,619 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 15,052 kg/ha, in 1978.
Egypt ranks 30th of 191 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Egypt, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 17,418 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 15,627 kg/ha | -10.3% |
| 1963 | 17,349 kg/ha | +11.0% |
| 1964 | 17,266 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1965 | 18,691 kg/ha | +8.2% |
| 1966 | 15,975 kg/ha | -14.5% |
| 1967 | 17,456 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 1968 | 17,646 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1969 | 17,334 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1970 | 17,590 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1971 | 17,375 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1972 | 17,743 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1973 | 18,076 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1974 | 18,272 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1975 | 18,075 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1976 | 17,240 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1977 | 16,497 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1978 | 15,052 kg/ha | -8.8% |
| 1979 | 18,169 kg/ha | +20.7% |
| 1980 | 18,143 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1981 | 18,695 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1982 | 19,405 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1983 | 20,025 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1984 | 20,080 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1985 | 20,531 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1986 | 20,240 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1987 | 22,942 kg/ha | +13.3% |
| 1988 | 21,866 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1989 | 22,838 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1990 | 21,187 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 1991 | 21,021 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1992 | 21,470 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1993 | 21,528 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1994 | 21,287 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1995 | 21,612 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1996 | 20,691 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1997 | 22,124 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1998 | 22,640 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1999 | 23,265 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2000 | 23,835 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2001 | 24,100 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2002 | 24,154 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 25,045 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2004 | 24,892 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2005 | 24,071 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 2006 | 22,033 kg/ha | -8.5% |
| 2007 | 26,157 kg/ha | +18.7% |
| 2008 | 26,169 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 26,620 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2010 | 26,242 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2011 | 26,640 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2012 | 27,187 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2013 | 27,123 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2014 | 27,218 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2015 | 27,423 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2016 | 26,581 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2017 | 28,100 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 2018 | 29,139 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2019 | 29,545 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2020 | 24,888 kg/ha | -15.8% |
| 2021 | 30,008 kg/ha | +20.6% |
| 2022 | 29,477 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2023 | 31,619 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 2024 | 30,356 kg/ha | -4.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 17,196 kg/ha | 15,627 kg/ha | 18,691 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 17,409 kg/ha | 15,052 kg/ha | 18,272 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 20,476 kg/ha | 18,143 kg/ha | 22,942 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 21,682 kg/ha | 20,691 kg/ha | 23,265 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 24,708 kg/ha | 22,033 kg/ha | 26,620 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 27,520 kg/ha | 26,242 kg/ha | 29,545 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 29,270 kg/ha | 24,888 kg/ha | 31,619 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Egypt?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Egypt was 30,356 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 Egypt?
- The highest recorded value was 31,619 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Egypt?
- The lowest recorded value was 15,052 kg/ha in 1978.
- How does Egypt rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Egypt ranks 30th out of 191 countries with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Egypt?
- Over the last ten years it is up 11.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Egypt 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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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.