Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Middle Africa
Middle Africa: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 8,676 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Middle Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Middle Africa recorded 8,676 kg/ha for roots and tubers, total — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 1.7% on the previous year and up 2.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Middle Africa peaked at 9,238 kg/ha in 2009 and was at its lowest, 5,292 kg/ha, in 1967.
Middle Africa ranks 10th 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 Middle Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,389 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,388 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1963 | 5,408 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1964 | 5,376 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1965 | 5,588 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1966 | 5,437 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1967 | 5,292 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1968 | 5,313 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1969 | 5,306 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1970 | 5,416 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1971 | 5,332 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1972 | 5,389 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1973 | 5,472 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1974 | 5,430 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1975 | 5,559 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1976 | 5,623 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1977 | 5,655 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1978 | 5,535 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1979 | 5,773 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1980 | 5,840 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1981 | 5,784 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1982 | 6,014 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1983 | 6,258 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1984 | 6,458 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1985 | 6,971 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 1986 | 6,960 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1987 | 6,920 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1988 | 6,905 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1989 | 6,979 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1990 | 6,997 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1991 | 7,054 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1992 | 7,059 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1993 | 6,859 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1994 | 7,000 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1995 | 6,997 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1996 | 6,997 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 6,992 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1998 | 7,144 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1999 | 7,393 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2000 | 7,662 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2001 | 7,653 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2002 | 7,743 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2003 | 7,489 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 2004 | 7,762 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2005 | 8,060 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2006 | 8,066 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2007 | 8,327 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2008 | 9,032 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 2009 | 9,238 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2010 | 9,099 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2011 | 9,023 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2012 | 8,413 kg/ha | -6.8% |
| 2013 | 9,207 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 2014 | 8,510 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 2015 | 8,464 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2016 | 8,179 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2017 | 8,288 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2018 | 8,425 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2019 | 8,450 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2020 | 8,272 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2021 | 8,434 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2022 | 8,518 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2023 | 8,532 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 8,676 kg/ha | +1.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,389 kg/ha | 5,292 kg/ha | 5,588 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,518 kg/ha | 5,332 kg/ha | 5,773 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,509 kg/ha | 5,784 kg/ha | 6,979 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,049 kg/ha | 6,859 kg/ha | 7,393 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,103 kg/ha | 7,489 kg/ha | 9,238 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,606 kg/ha | 8,179 kg/ha | 9,207 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,486 kg/ha | 8,272 kg/ha | 8,676 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Middle Africa?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Middle Africa was 8,676 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 Middle Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 9,238 kg/ha in 2009.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Middle Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,292 kg/ha in 1967.
- How does Middle Africa rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Middle Africa ranks 10th out of 20 regions with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Middle Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Middle Africa 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.