Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs): Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 10,348 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) recorded 10,348 kg/ha for roots and tubers, total — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.7% on the previous year and up 10.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) peaked at 10,348 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 5,220 kg/ha, in 1963.
That places Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 23rd out of 29 groups with data for 2024, putting it 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 Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs), year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,224 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,260 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1963 | 5,220 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1964 | 5,302 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1965 | 5,374 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1966 | 5,417 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1967 | 5,532 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1968 | 5,539 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1969 | 5,450 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1970 | 5,469 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1971 | 5,444 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1972 | 5,475 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1973 | 5,496 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1974 | 5,452 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1975 | 5,799 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1976 | 5,922 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1977 | 6,070 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1978 | 5,951 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1979 | 6,286 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1980 | 6,509 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1981 | 6,672 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1982 | 6,677 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1983 | 6,718 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1984 | 6,743 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1985 | 6,947 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1986 | 6,957 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1987 | 6,881 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1988 | 6,952 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1989 | 6,886 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1990 | 6,959 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1991 | 6,906 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1992 | 6,748 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1993 | 6,866 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1994 | 6,745 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1995 | 6,957 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1996 | 6,941 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1997 | 7,070 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1998 | 7,152 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1999 | 7,704 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 2000 | 7,824 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2001 | 8,105 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2002 | 8,191 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2003 | 8,014 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2004 | 8,047 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2005 | 8,269 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2006 | 8,524 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2007 | 8,651 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2008 | 8,985 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2009 | 8,617 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 2010 | 9,031 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 2011 | 9,376 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2012 | 9,255 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2013 | 9,441 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2014 | 9,398 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2015 | 9,510 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2016 | 9,366 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2017 | 9,216 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2018 | 9,738 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 2019 | 10,053 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2020 | 10,102 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2021 | 9,936 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2022 | 10,038 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2023 | 10,179 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2024 | 10,348 kg/ha | +1.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,369 kg/ha | 5,220 kg/ha | 5,539 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,737 kg/ha | 5,444 kg/ha | 6,286 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,794 kg/ha | 6,509 kg/ha | 6,957 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,005 kg/ha | 6,745 kg/ha | 7,704 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,323 kg/ha | 7,824 kg/ha | 8,985 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,438 kg/ha | 9,031 kg/ha | 10,053 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,121 kg/ha | 9,936 kg/ha | 10,348 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) was 10,348 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 Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 10,348 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,220 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) ranks 23rd out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 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.