Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Lesotho
Lesotho: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 17,889 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Lesotho, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, roots and tubers, total — yield in Lesotho stood at 17,889 kg/ha.
The figure is up 0.6% on the previous year and up 4.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Lesotho peaked at 18,600 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 12,500 kg/ha, in 1978.
That places Lesotho 80th out of 189 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 14,556 kg/ha | 14,000 kg/ha | 15,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 13,257 kg/ha | 12,500 kg/ha | 15,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 15,107 kg/ha | 14,286 kg/ha | 15,625 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 15,840 kg/ha | 14,865 kg/ha | 17,690 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 16,369 kg/ha | 15,965 kg/ha | 16,638 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 17,264 kg/ha | 16,429 kg/ha | 18,600 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 17,812 kg/ha | 17,500 kg/ha | 17,989 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Lesotho
- Agriculture share gdp 6.49 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.49 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 55.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 1.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 166.92 million current US$ (2025)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 35,490 An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Lesotho?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Lesotho was 17,889 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 Lesotho?
- The highest recorded value was 18,600 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Lesotho?
- The lowest recorded value was 12,500 kg/ha in 1978.
- How does Lesotho rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Lesotho ranks 80th out of 189 countries with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Lesotho?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Lesotho 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.