Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Eswatini
Eswatini: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 5,280 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Eswatini, 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 Eswatini is 5,280 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.6% on the previous year and down 0.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Eswatini peaked at 5,750 kg/ha in 1975 and was at its lowest, 3,521 kg/ha, in 1979.
Eswatini ranks 174th of 191 countries 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 | 5,218 kg/ha | 4,781 kg/ha | 5,446 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,616 kg/ha | 3,521 kg/ha | 5,750 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,543 kg/ha | 3,688 kg/ha | 5,008 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,663 kg/ha | 4,103 kg/ha | 4,998 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,909 kg/ha | 4,812 kg/ha | 4,985 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,237 kg/ha | 4,985 kg/ha | 5,381 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,272 kg/ha | 5,238 kg/ha | 5,314 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Eswatini
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.08 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0641 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 263.26 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4281 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7328 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 6.41 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.41 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 6.2% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Eswatini?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Eswatini was 5,280 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 Eswatini?
- The highest recorded value was 5,750 kg/ha in 1975.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Eswatini?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,521 kg/ha in 1979.
- How does Eswatini rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Eswatini ranks 174th out of 191 countries with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Eswatini?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eswatini 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.