Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in South America
South America: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 16,375 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in South America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
South America recorded 16,375 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 4.9% on the previous year and up 10.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in South America peaked at 16,375 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 10,330 kg/ha, in 1961.
South America ranks 18th of 29 groups 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 South America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 10,330 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 10,493 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1963 | 10,722 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1964 | 11,084 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1965 | 11,338 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1966 | 11,130 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1967 | 11,562 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1968 | 11,786 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1969 | 11,958 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1970 | 11,982 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1971 | 12,008 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1972 | 11,757 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1973 | 10,908 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 1974 | 11,005 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1975 | 11,097 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1976 | 10,803 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1977 | 10,795 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1978 | 10,778 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1979 | 10,723 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1980 | 10,711 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1981 | 11,008 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1982 | 10,831 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1983 | 10,432 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1984 | 11,324 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1985 | 11,597 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1986 | 11,537 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1987 | 11,551 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1988 | 12,013 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1989 | 12,034 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1990 | 11,901 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1991 | 11,886 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1992 | 11,512 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1993 | 11,710 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1994 | 12,462 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1995 | 12,586 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1996 | 11,772 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1997 | 12,521 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1998 | 12,338 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1999 | 12,741 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2000 | 12,743 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 13,176 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2002 | 13,480 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2003 | 13,476 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2004 | 13,699 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2005 | 13,508 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2006 | 13,793 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2007 | 13,852 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2008 | 13,793 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2009 | 13,575 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2010 | 13,724 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2011 | 14,319 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2012 | 13,541 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 2013 | 14,012 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2014 | 14,801 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2015 | 14,848 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2016 | 15,100 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2017 | 15,444 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2018 | 15,470 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 15,740 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2020 | 15,848 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2021 | 15,948 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2022 | 15,620 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2023 | 15,604 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2024 | 16,375 kg/ha | +4.9% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11,156 kg/ha | 10,330 kg/ha | 11,958 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,186 kg/ha | 10,723 kg/ha | 12,008 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 11,304 kg/ha | 10,432 kg/ha | 12,034 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 12,143 kg/ha | 11,512 kg/ha | 12,741 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 13,510 kg/ha | 12,743 kg/ha | 13,852 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 14,700 kg/ha | 13,541 kg/ha | 15,740 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 15,879 kg/ha | 15,604 kg/ha | 16,375 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in South America?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in South America was 16,375 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 South America?
- The highest recorded value was 16,375 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in South America?
- The lowest recorded value was 10,330 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does South America rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- South America ranks 18th out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in South America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this South America 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.