Taro — Production in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs): Taro — Production was 4.73 million t in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Taro — Production in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) recorded 4.73 million t for taro — production in 2024.
The figure is up 12.5% on the previous year and up 26.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — production in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) peaked at 5.01 million t in 2020 and was at its lowest, 653,486 t, in 1978.
That places Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 4th out of 21 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Taro — Production in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 796,961 t | — |
| 1962 | 878,399 t | +10.2% |
| 1963 | 1.04 million t | +17.9% |
| 1964 | 797,651 t | -23.0% |
| 1965 | 756,978 t | -5.1% |
| 1966 | 795,896 t | +5.1% |
| 1967 | 1.02 million t | +27.8% |
| 1968 | 1.06 million t | +3.9% |
| 1969 | 1.03 million t | -2.4% |
| 1970 | 1.12 million t | +8.5% |
| 1971 | 994,698 t | -11.1% |
| 1972 | 1.01 million t | +1.3% |
| 1973 | 1.00 million t | -0.6% |
| 1974 | 1.20 million t | +20.3% |
| 1975 | 1.18 million t | -1.9% |
| 1976 | 1.08 million t | -8.9% |
| 1977 | 851,410 t | -20.9% |
| 1978 | 653,486 t | -23.2% |
| 1979 | 668,529 t | +2.3% |
| 1980 | 663,795 t | -0.7% |
| 1981 | 661,804 t | -0.3% |
| 1982 | 657,465 t | -0.7% |
| 1983 | 690,079 t | +5.0% |
| 1984 | 739,107 t | +7.1% |
| 1985 | 807,541 t | +9.3% |
| 1986 | 867,176 t | +7.4% |
| 1987 | 914,388 t | +5.4% |
| 1988 | 986,323 t | +7.9% |
| 1989 | 1.08 million t | +9.6% |
| 1990 | 1.31 million t | +21.4% |
| 1991 | 1.10 million t | -16.2% |
| 1992 | 1.11 million t | +0.9% |
| 1993 | 2.13 million t | +91.9% |
| 1994 | 2.12 million t | -0.6% |
| 1995 | 2.02 million t | -4.5% |
| 1996 | 2.01 million t | -0.6% |
| 1997 | 2.07 million t | +3.3% |
| 1998 | 2.17 million t | +4.6% |
| 1999 | 2.51 million t | +15.9% |
| 2000 | 2.55 million t | +1.5% |
| 2001 | 2.65 million t | +3.9% |
| 2002 | 2.72 million t | +2.4% |
| 2003 | 2.63 million t | -3.1% |
| 2004 | 2.50 million t | -5.0% |
| 2005 | 2.77 million t | +10.8% |
| 2006 | 2.88 million t | +3.9% |
| 2007 | 3.14 million t | +9.3% |
| 2008 | 3.02 million t | -4.1% |
| 2009 | 3.57 million t | +18.3% |
| 2010 | 3.36 million t | -5.7% |
| 2011 | 3.39 million t | +0.9% |
| 2012 | 3.49 million t | +2.9% |
| 2013 | 3.63 million t | +4.2% |
| 2014 | 3.73 million t | +2.7% |
| 2015 | 4.13 million t | +10.7% |
| 2016 | 4.08 million t | -1.2% |
| 2017 | 4.14 million t | +1.3% |
| 2018 | 4.21 million t | +1.9% |
| 2019 | 4.29 million t | +1.7% |
| 2020 | 5.01 million t | +16.9% |
| 2021 | 5.00 million t | -0.2% |
| 2022 | 4.24 million t | -15.3% |
| 2023 | 4.20 million t | -0.8% |
| 2024 | 4.73 million t | +12.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 907,463 t | 756,978 t | 1.06 million t | 9 |
| 1970s | 975,889 t | 653,486 t | 1.20 million t | 10 |
| 1980s | 806,826 t | 657,465 t | 1.08 million t | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.85 million t | 1.10 million t | 2.51 million t | 10 |
| 2000s | 2.84 million t | 2.50 million t | 3.57 million t | 10 |
| 2010s | 3.85 million t | 3.36 million t | 4.29 million t | 10 |
| 2020s | 4.64 million t | 4.20 million t | 5.01 million t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is taro — production in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Taro — production in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) was 4.73 million t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — production recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 5.01 million t in 2020.
- What is the lowest taro — production recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 653,486 t in 1978.
- How does Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) rank for taro — production?
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 4th out of 21 groups with data for 2024.
- Is taro — production rising or falling in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 26.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Taro — Production. 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.