Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Pakistan
Pakistan: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 25,798 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Pakistan, 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 Pakistan is 25,798 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 2.4% on the previous year and up 40.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Pakistan peaked at 25,903 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 7,591 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Pakistan 47th out of 191 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Pakistan, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7,591 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 9,345 kg/ha | +23.1% |
| 1963 | 9,156 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1964 | 9,184 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1965 | 9,366 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1966 | 9,126 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1967 | 8,922 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1968 | 9,431 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1969 | 10,990 kg/ha | +16.5% |
| 1970 | 10,574 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1971 | 11,352 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 1972 | 11,085 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1973 | 10,465 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1974 | 10,328 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1975 | 10,590 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1976 | 11,306 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 1977 | 12,408 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 1978 | 9,980 kg/ha | -19.6% |
| 1979 | 10,495 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1980 | 11,580 kg/ha | +10.3% |
| 1981 | 11,104 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1982 | 11,553 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1983 | 11,300 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1984 | 11,544 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1985 | 11,128 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1986 | 10,748 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1987 | 11,221 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1988 | 11,280 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1989 | 11,315 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1990 | 11,412 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1991 | 11,096 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1992 | 11,943 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1993 | 12,780 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 1994 | 13,665 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1995 | 14,297 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1996 | 13,955 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1997 | 11,751 kg/ha | -15.8% |
| 1998 | 13,869 kg/ha | +18.0% |
| 1999 | 16,516 kg/ha | +19.1% |
| 2000 | 16,860 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2001 | 16,386 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2002 | 16,352 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2003 | 16,671 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2004 | 17,465 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 2005 | 17,839 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2006 | 13,560 kg/ha | -24.0% |
| 2007 | 19,070 kg/ha | +40.6% |
| 2008 | 16,420 kg/ha | -13.9% |
| 2009 | 19,958 kg/ha | +21.5% |
| 2010 | 22,166 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 2011 | 21,557 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2012 | 18,394 kg/ha | -14.7% |
| 2013 | 21,826 kg/ha | +18.7% |
| 2014 | 18,372 kg/ha | -15.8% |
| 2015 | 23,193 kg/ha | +26.2% |
| 2016 | 22,284 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 2017 | 21,468 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 2018 | 23,975 kg/ha | +11.7% |
| 2019 | 25,354 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2020 | 25,191 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2021 | 25,564 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2022 | 25,903 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2023 | 25,194 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2024 | 25,798 kg/ha | +2.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,235 kg/ha | 7,591 kg/ha | 10,990 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,858 kg/ha | 9,980 kg/ha | 12,408 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 11,277 kg/ha | 10,748 kg/ha | 11,580 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 13,128 kg/ha | 11,096 kg/ha | 16,516 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 17,058 kg/ha | 13,560 kg/ha | 19,958 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 21,859 kg/ha | 18,372 kg/ha | 25,354 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 25,530 kg/ha | 25,191 kg/ha | 25,903 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Pakistan?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Pakistan was 25,798 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 Pakistan?
- The highest recorded value was 25,903 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Pakistan?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,591 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Pakistan rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Pakistan ranks 47th out of 191 countries with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Pakistan?
- Over the last ten years it is up 40.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Pakistan 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.