Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Melanesia
Melanesia: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 8,699 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, roots and tubers, total — yield in Melanesia stood at 8,699 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 0.5% on the previous year and up 5.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Melanesia peaked at 8,699 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 6,904 kg/ha, in 1990.
Melanesia ranks 9th of 20 regions on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Melanesia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,938 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,990 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1963 | 6,989 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1964 | 7,058 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1965 | 7,065 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1966 | 7,230 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1967 | 7,201 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1968 | 7,147 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1969 | 7,148 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 7,234 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1971 | 7,356 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1972 | 7,338 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1973 | 7,288 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1974 | 7,269 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1975 | 7,223 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1976 | 7,231 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1977 | 7,255 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1978 | 7,303 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1979 | 7,326 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1980 | 7,361 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1981 | 7,372 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1982 | 7,442 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1983 | 7,558 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1984 | 7,585 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1985 | 7,616 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1986 | 7,477 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1987 | 7,506 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1988 | 7,638 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1989 | 7,324 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1990 | 6,904 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1991 | 7,385 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 1992 | 7,459 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1993 | 7,430 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1994 | 7,295 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1995 | 7,576 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1996 | 7,645 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1997 | 7,543 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1998 | 7,689 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1999 | 7,796 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2000 | 7,860 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2001 | 7,924 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2002 | 8,008 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2003 | 8,026 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2004 | 8,076 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2005 | 7,978 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2006 | 7,967 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2007 | 7,931 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2008 | 7,695 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2009 | 8,010 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2010 | 8,113 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2011 | 8,150 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2012 | 8,221 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2013 | 8,320 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2014 | 8,252 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2015 | 8,473 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2016 | 8,372 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2017 | 8,388 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 8,424 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 8,442 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 8,319 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2021 | 8,427 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2022 | 8,612 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2023 | 8,657 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2024 | 8,699 kg/ha | +0.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,085 kg/ha | 6,938 kg/ha | 7,230 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,282 kg/ha | 7,223 kg/ha | 7,356 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,488 kg/ha | 7,324 kg/ha | 7,638 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,472 kg/ha | 6,904 kg/ha | 7,796 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,948 kg/ha | 7,695 kg/ha | 8,076 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,316 kg/ha | 8,113 kg/ha | 8,473 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,543 kg/ha | 8,319 kg/ha | 8,699 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Melanesia?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Melanesia was 8,699 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 Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 8,699 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,904 kg/ha in 1990.
- How does Melanesia rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Melanesia ranks 9th out of 20 regions with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Melanesia 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.