Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield was 10,855 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield in Zimbabwe, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Zimbabwe recorded 10,855 kg/ha for roots and tubers, total — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 5.8% on the previous year and down 1.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — yield in Zimbabwe peaked at 11,005 kg/ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 3,592 kg/ha, in 1981.
Zimbabwe ranks 133rd 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 | 3,987 kg/ha | 3,804 kg/ha | 4,085 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,980 kg/ha | 3,864 kg/ha | 4,107 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,602 kg/ha | 3,592 kg/ha | 5,127 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,676 kg/ha | 4,489 kg/ha | 5,033 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,385 kg/ha | 5,325 kg/ha | 7,840 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,317 kg/ha | 8,148 kg/ha | 11,005 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9,988 kg/ha | 9,380 kg/ha | 10,855 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Zimbabwe
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 34.41 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0947 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 286.19 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.8815 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.595 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 9.47 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.47 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.3% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — yield in Zimbabwe?
- Roots and tubers, total — yield in Zimbabwe was 10,855 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 Zimbabwe?
- The highest recorded value was 11,005 kg/ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — yield recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,592 kg/ha in 1981.
- How does Zimbabwe rank for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Zimbabwe ranks 133rd out of 189 countries with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — yield rising or falling in Zimbabwe?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Zimbabwe 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.