Taro — Production by country
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...
What the numbers show
Taro — Production is currently reported for 60 countries. The highest value is 8.61 million t in Nigeria; the lowest is 0 t in Republic of Korea.
The median across all reporting countries is 18,505 t, and the mean is 343,089 t.
Over the past decade 32 countries rose and 27 fell. The largest increase was in Guyana (up 887.9%), and the largest decrease in Türkiye (down 100.0%).
Taro — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nigeria | 8.61 million t | 2024 | up 162.9% | volatile |
| 2 | Cameroon | 1.95 million t | 2024 | up 14.7% | volatile |
| 3 | China | 1.93 million t | 2024 | up 2.8% | rising |
| 4 | China, mainland | 1.89 million t | 2024 | up 3.2% | rising |
| 5 | Ethiopia | 1.79 million t | 2024 | up 45.5% | rising |
| 5 | Melanesia | 411,264 t | 2024 | up 7.3% | rising |
| 6 | Ghana | 1.77 million t | 2024 | up 35.9% | rising |
| 6 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 77,000 t | 2024 | down 43.0% | falling |
| 7 | Papua New Guinea | 277,349 t | 2024 | up 0.4% | rising |
| 7 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 70,021 t | 2024 | up 1.5% | rising |
| 8 | Madagascar | 234,693 t | 2024 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 8 | Polynesia | 25,446 t | 2024 | down 21.4% | falling |
| 9 | Rwanda | 203,676 t | 2024 | up 204.5% | volatile |
| 9 | Micronesia | 1,927 t | 2024 | down 7.4% | rising |
| 10 | Chad | 143,586 t | 2024 | up 547.9% | volatile |
| 10 | Türkiye | 0 t | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 11 | Guinea | 128,138 t | 2024 | up 12.7% | volatile |
| 12 | Japan | 118,462 t | 2024 | down 28.5% | falling |
| 12 | Côte d'Ivoire | 91,185 t | 2024 | up 19.9% | falling |
| 13 | Egypt | 118,387 t | 2024 | down 3.6% | rising |
| 14 | Thailand | 105,800 t | 2024 | up 8.3% | rising |
| 14 | Caribbean | 28,188 t | 2024 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 15 | Philippines | 93,795 t | 2024 | down 15.0% | rising |
| 16 | Gabon | 88,841 t | 2024 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 17 | Burundi | 69,998 t | 2024 | down 39.3% | rising |
| 18 | Fiji | 68,124 t | 2024 | up 8.6% | volatile |
| 19 | Solomon Islands | 46,108 t | 2024 | up 5.3% | rising |
| 20 | Central African Republic | 44,393 t | 2024 | up 3.6% | rising |
| 21 | China, Taiwan Province of | 36,619 t | 2024 | down 16.0% | rising |
| 22 | Liberia | 29,019 t | 2024 | up 5.1% | rising |
| 23 | Dominica | 22,601 t | 2024 | up 4.5% | rising |
| 24 | Samoa | 18,737 t | 2024 | down 26.5% | falling |
| 25 | Togo | 18,272 t | 2024 | up 58.5% | flat |
| 26 | Comoros | 13,911 t | 2024 | up 37.1% | rising |
| 27 | Nicaragua | 12,942 t | 2023 | down 84.2% | falling |
| 28 | Guyana | 11,015 t | 2024 | up 887.9% | volatile |
| 29 | Sao Tome and Principe | 10,073 t | 2024 | up 50.6% | volatile |
| 30 | Benin | 4,887 t | 2024 | up 212.4% | volatile |
| 31 | Honduras | 4,248 t | 2024 | up 102.3% | rising |
| 32 | French Guiana | 4,000 t | 2006 | down 2.3% | falling |
| 33 | Trinidad and Tobago | 3,713 t | 2024 | down 25.9% | falling |
| 34 | Tonga | 3,527 t | 2024 | up 4.0% | volatile |
| 35 | Niue | 2,972 t | 2024 | down 1.7% | rising |
| 36 | Sierra Leone | 2,933 t | 2024 | down 6.6% | volatile |
| 37 | Mauritius | 2,892 t | 2024 | up 296.1% | volatile |
| 38 | Panama | 2,553 t | 2024 | up 32.3% | rising |
| 39 | Kiribati | 1,927 t | 2024 | down 7.4% | rising |
| 40 | Cyprus | 1,414 t | 2017 | down 38.1% | volatile |
| 41 | Puerto Rico | 767.05 t | 2024 | down 1.1% | falling |
| 42 | Lebanon | 728.24 t | 2024 | down 4.0% | falling |
| 43 | Saint Lucia | 558.46 t | 2024 | up 16.1% | rising |
| 44 | Grenada | 423.28 t | 2024 | down 59.8% | falling |
| 45 | New Caledonia | 362.36 t | 2024 | down 2.9% | volatile |
| 46 | French Polynesia | 188.2 t | 2024 | down 61.0% | falling |
| 47 | Bhutan | 120.15 t | 2024 | down 42.8% | falling |
| 48 | Barbados | 87.54 t | 2024 | down 3.9% | volatile |
| 49 | Antigua and Barbuda | 37.51 t | 2024 | down 10.7% | volatile |
| 50 | Maldives | 12.37 t | 2024 | down 71.1% | volatile |
| 51 | Palestine | 6.17 t | 2022 | down 83.4% | volatile |
| 52 | Republic of Korea | 0 t | 1992 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 18.21 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 2.89 million t
- Africa 15.38 million t
- Asia 2.32 million t
- Western Africa 10.65 million t
- Middle Africa 2.30 million t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 4.73 million t
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 504,728 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 3.25 million t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 2.33 million t
- Eastern Africa 2.32 million t
- Eastern Asia 2.05 million t
- Oceania 438,637 t
- South-Eastern Asia 276,595 t
- Northern Africa 118,387 t
- Americas 61,850 t
- Central America 21,155 t
- South America 11,015 t
- United States of America 1,492 t
- Northern America 1,492 t
- European Union (27) 1,414 t
- Western Asia 731.57 t
- Southern Asia 132.52 t
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.