Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 9,629 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Trinidad and Tobago, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, roots and tubers, total — yield in Trinidad and Tobago stood at 9,629 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 20.1% on the previous year and up 21.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Trinidad and Tobago peaked at 12,249 kg/ha in 1978 and was at its lowest, 5,335 kg/ha, in 2011.
Trinidad and Tobago ranks 141st of 191 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Trinidad and Tobago, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 9,590 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 9,328 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1963 | 9,566 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1964 | 8,846 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 1965 | 8,890 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1966 | 9,002 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1967 | 9,117 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1968 | 9,527 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1969 | 9,419 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1970 | 9,457 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1971 | 9,468 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1972 | 10,473 kg/ha | +10.6% |
| 1973 | 12,233 kg/ha | +16.8% |
| 1974 | 11,763 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1975 | 11,832 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1976 | 11,841 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1977 | 12,000 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1978 | 12,249 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1979 | 12,212 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1980 | 12,173 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1981 | 12,234 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1982 | 12,174 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1983 | 11,417 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1984 | 10,290 kg/ha | -9.9% |
| 1985 | 9,448 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 1986 | 8,960 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1987 | 9,524 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1988 | 9,510 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1989 | 9,458 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1990 | 7,092 kg/ha | -25.0% |
| 1991 | 6,862 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1992 | 7,820 kg/ha | +14.0% |
| 1993 | 7,184 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1994 | 7,173 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1995 | 7,274 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1996 | 6,489 kg/ha | -10.8% |
| 1997 | 6,928 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 1998 | 6,920 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1999 | 7,584 kg/ha | +9.6% |
| 2000 | 7,019 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 2001 | 8,688 kg/ha | +23.8% |
| 2002 | 8,215 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 2003 | 7,594 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 2004 | 8,721 kg/ha | +14.8% |
| 2005 | 7,758 kg/ha | -11.0% |
| 2006 | 7,776 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2007 | 6,781 kg/ha | -12.8% |
| 2008 | 7,642 kg/ha | +12.7% |
| 2009 | 5,802 kg/ha | -24.1% |
| 2010 | 5,408 kg/ha | -6.8% |
| 2011 | 5,335 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2012 | 9,066 kg/ha | +70.0% |
| 2013 | 7,340 kg/ha | -19.0% |
| 2014 | 7,929 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 2015 | 6,993 kg/ha | -11.8% |
| 2016 | 6,688 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 2017 | 5,806 kg/ha | -13.2% |
| 2018 | 5,397 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 2019 | 8,038 kg/ha | +48.9% |
| 2020 | 9,972 kg/ha | +24.1% |
| 2021 | 11,922 kg/ha | +19.6% |
| 2022 | 7,992 kg/ha | -33.0% |
| 2023 | 8,018 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2024 | 9,629 kg/ha | +20.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,254 kg/ha | 8,846 kg/ha | 9,590 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,353 kg/ha | 9,457 kg/ha | 12,249 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,519 kg/ha | 8,960 kg/ha | 12,234 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,132 kg/ha | 6,489 kg/ha | 7,820 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,600 kg/ha | 5,802 kg/ha | 8,721 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,800 kg/ha | 5,335 kg/ha | 9,066 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9,507 kg/ha | 7,992 kg/ha | 11,922 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Trinidad and Tobago was 9,629 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 Trinidad and Tobago?
- The highest recorded value was 12,249 kg/ha in 1978.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Trinidad and Tobago?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,335 kg/ha in 2011.
- How does Trinidad and Tobago rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Trinidad and Tobago ranks 141st out of 191 countries with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Over the last ten years it is up 21.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Trinidad and Tobago 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.