Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs): Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 9,280 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) recorded 9,280 kg/ha for roots and tubers, total — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 1.9% on the previous year and up 9.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) peaked at 9,283 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 5,172 kg/ha, in 1961.
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 25th of 29 groups on this measure, 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 Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,172 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,273 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1963 | 5,229 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1964 | 5,275 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1965 | 5,360 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1966 | 5,411 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1967 | 5,431 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1968 | 5,426 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1969 | 5,256 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1970 | 5,285 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1971 | 5,216 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1972 | 5,316 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1973 | 5,308 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1974 | 5,309 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 5,670 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 1976 | 5,845 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1977 | 6,047 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1978 | 5,893 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1979 | 6,256 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1980 | 6,268 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1981 | 6,429 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1982 | 6,437 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1983 | 6,587 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1984 | 6,608 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1985 | 6,882 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1986 | 6,932 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1987 | 6,819 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1988 | 6,823 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1989 | 6,824 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 6,971 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1991 | 6,910 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1992 | 6,798 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1993 | 6,889 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1994 | 6,671 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1995 | 6,755 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1996 | 6,762 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1997 | 6,888 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1998 | 6,934 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1999 | 7,429 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 2000 | 7,524 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2001 | 7,798 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2002 | 7,652 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2003 | 7,443 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2004 | 7,348 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2005 | 7,640 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2006 | 7,884 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2007 | 8,000 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2008 | 8,065 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2009 | 7,814 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2010 | 8,167 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2011 | 8,439 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2012 | 8,502 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2013 | 8,466 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2014 | 8,508 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2015 | 8,446 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2016 | 8,526 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2017 | 8,238 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2018 | 8,831 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 2019 | 9,218 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 2020 | 9,283 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2021 | 9,007 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2022 | 9,001 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2023 | 9,107 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2024 | 9,280 kg/ha | +1.9% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,315 kg/ha | 5,172 kg/ha | 5,431 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,615 kg/ha | 5,216 kg/ha | 6,256 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,661 kg/ha | 6,268 kg/ha | 6,932 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,901 kg/ha | 6,671 kg/ha | 7,429 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,717 kg/ha | 7,348 kg/ha | 8,065 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,534 kg/ha | 8,167 kg/ha | 9,218 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9,136 kg/ha | 9,001 kg/ha | 9,283 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) was 9,280 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 Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 9,283 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,172 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 25th out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 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.