Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Malawi
Malawi: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 24,675 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Malawi, 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 Malawi is 24,675 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 4.0% on the previous year and up 17.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Malawi peaked at 24,675 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 4,124 kg/ha, in 1989.
Malawi ranks 51st of 189 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
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 | 6,706 kg/ha | 6,199 kg/ha | 6,950 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,495 kg/ha | 6,118 kg/ha | 6,758 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,044 kg/ha | 4,124 kg/ha | 6,393 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,961 kg/ha | 4,203 kg/ha | 8,320 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 14,926 kg/ha | 11,580 kg/ha | 18,123 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 20,166 kg/ha | 18,076 kg/ha | 21,877 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 23,623 kg/ha | 22,796 kg/ha | 24,675 kg/ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 24.6 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3003 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 201.66 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 2.19 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0012 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.8241 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 30.03 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 30.03 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.7% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Malawi?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Malawi was 24,675 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 Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 24,675 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,124 kg/ha in 1989.
- How does Malawi rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Malawi ranks 51st out of 189 countries with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is up 17.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Malawi 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.