Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Guyana
Guyana: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 28,975 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Guyana, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, roots and tubers, total — yield in Guyana stood at 28,975 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 3.5% on the previous year and up 49.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Guyana peaked at 28,975 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 5,604 kg/ha, in 1965.
That places Guyana 36th out of 189 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,285 kg/ha | 5,604 kg/ha | 6,904 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,715 kg/ha | 6,404 kg/ha | 7,204 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,559 kg/ha | 6,531 kg/ha | 10,367 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 15,469 kg/ha | 9,600 kg/ha | 19,840 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,870 kg/ha | 8,187 kg/ha | 12,874 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 17,305 kg/ha | 7,716 kg/ha | 25,572 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 27,622 kg/ha | 26,642 kg/ha | 28,975 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Guyana
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 11.48 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0773 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 2,507 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.5708 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7351 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 7.73 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 7.73 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.1% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Guyana?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Guyana was 28,975 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 Guyana?
- The highest recorded value was 28,975 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Guyana?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,604 kg/ha in 1965.
- How does Guyana rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Guyana ranks 36th out of 189 countries with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Guyana?
- Over the last ten years it is up 49.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Guyana 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.