Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Peru
Peru: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 16,965 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Peru, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, roots and tubers, total — yield in Peru stood at 16,965 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 10.3% on the previous year and up 24.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Peru peaked at 16,965 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 6,167 kg/ha, in 1963.
Peru ranks 90th of 189 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,540 kg/ha | 6,167 kg/ha | 6,950 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,058 kg/ha | 6,700 kg/ha | 7,700 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 8,091 kg/ha | 7,452 kg/ha | 8,579 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,895 kg/ha | 7,625 kg/ha | 10,422 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 11,297 kg/ha | 10,434 kg/ha | 12,193 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 13,688 kg/ha | 12,197 kg/ha | 14,700 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 15,650 kg/ha | 14,890 kg/ha | 16,965 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Peru
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 12.59 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0747 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 637.02 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.72 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.144 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 7.47 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 7.47 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Peru?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Peru was 16,965 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 Peru?
- The highest recorded value was 16,965 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Peru?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,167 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Peru rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Peru ranks 90th out of 189 countries with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Peru?
- Over the last ten years it is up 24.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Peru 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.