Taro — Yield 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...

Countries reporting
60
Highest
72,023 kg/ha
Guyana
Lowest
1,908 kg/ha
French Polynesia
Median
7,815 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,663

What the numbers show

Taro — Yield is currently reported for 60 countries. The highest value is 72,023 kg/ha in Guyana; the lowest is 1,908 kg/ha in French Polynesia.

The median across all reporting countries is 7,815 kg/ha, and the mean is 11,218 kg/ha.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 38.

Over the past decade 36 countries rose and 24 fell. The largest increase was in Guyana (up 545.9%), and the largest decrease in French Guiana (down 53.8%).

Taro — Yield: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Guyana 72,023 kg/ha 2024 up 545.9% volatile
1 Türkiye 19,827 kg/ha 2017 up 20.2% volatile
2 Palestine 54,208 kg/ha 2022 up 50.2% rising
3 Egypt 36,345 kg/ha 2024 up 4.4% rising
4 Ethiopia 24,749 kg/ha 2024 down 3.7% flat
4 Lao People's Democratic Republic 10,386 kg/ha 2024 down 7.7% flat
5 Cyprus 22,094 kg/ha 2017 down 12.9% rising
5 Melanesia 9,568 kg/ha 2024 up 12.2% rising
6 Fiji 20,000 kg/ha 2024 up 116.2% rising
7 China, mainland 19,282 kg/ha 2024 down 0.2% rising
8 China 19,209 kg/ha 2024 down 0.4% rising
8 Polynesia 5,817 kg/ha 2024 up 6.5% falling
9 Solomon Islands 16,925 kg/ha 2024 up 1.6% rising
9 Micronesia 5,340 kg/ha 2024 down 8.0% rising
10 China, Taiwan Province of 16,058 kg/ha 2024 down 9.3% rising
10 Democratic Republic of the Congo 3,691 kg/ha 2024 down 4.9% falling
11 Lebanon 14,667 kg/ha 2024 down 14.1% rising
11 Caribbean 10,587 kg/ha 2024 up 6.9% rising
12 Grenada 14,377 kg/ha 2024 up 1.1% falling
13 Japan 13,060 kg/ha 2024 up 1.7% falling
14 Saint Lucia 12,807 kg/ha 2024 up 152.6% volatile
15 Benin 12,500 kg/ha 2024 up 314.9% falling
16 Trinidad and Tobago 12,336 kg/ha 2024 up 39.1% falling
17 Mauritius 11,552 kg/ha 2024 down 3.5% falling
18 Dominica 10,975 kg/ha 2024 up 0.6% rising
19 Thailand 10,108 kg/ha 2024 up 1.7% falling
20 Nicaragua 9,659 kg/ha 2023 down 0.7% falling
21 Liberia 9,211 kg/ha 2024 up 0.6% rising
21 Côte d'Ivoire 1,194 kg/ha 2024 down 5.9% rising
22 Republic of Korea 9,091 kg/ha 1980 up 8.4% rising
23 Panama 8,767 kg/ha 2024 down 22.8% falling
24 Burundi 8,213 kg/ha 2024 up 24.8% rising
25 Comoros 8,134 kg/ha 2024 up 7.8% rising
26 Papua New Guinea 7,860 kg/ha 2024 up 0.9% rising
27 Cameroon 7,771 kg/ha 2024 up 1.0% rising
28 Tonga 7,728 kg/ha 2024 up 2.6% rising
29 Ghana 7,200 kg/ha 2024 up 10.8% rising
30 Rwanda 7,068 kg/ha 2024 up 163.4% rising
31 Niue 6,554 kg/ha 2024 down 1.8% rising
32 Philippines 6,209 kg/ha 2024 down 13.5% rising
33 Nigeria 6,175 kg/ha 2024 up 20.7% rising
34 Sao Tome and Principe 6,152 kg/ha 2024 up 47.9% rising
35 Honduras 6,025 kg/ha 2024 up 0.1% flat
36 Madagascar 6,002 kg/ha 2024 down 2.9% falling
37 Gabon 5,950 kg/ha 2024 down 1.6% rising
38 Maldives 5,839 kg/ha 2024 up 0.2% falling
39 Samoa 5,575 kg/ha 2024 up 5.4% falling
40 New Caledonia 5,571 kg/ha 2024 up 5.8% rising
41 Kiribati 5,340 kg/ha 2024 down 8.0% rising
42 Chad 5,158 kg/ha 2024 up 122.7% volatile
43 Guinea 4,333 kg/ha 2024 down 28.2% falling
44 Antigua and Barbuda 4,061 kg/ha 2024 up 3.3% rising
45 Puerto Rico 3,936 kg/ha 2024 down 23.5% falling
46 Barbados 3,488 kg/ha 2024 up 0.1% rising
47 Togo 3,435 kg/ha 2024 up 20.6% falling
48 Bhutan 3,153 kg/ha 2024 down 22.6% falling
49 Central African Republic 2,790 kg/ha 2024 up 6.1% rising
50 Sierra Leone 2,564 kg/ha 2024 down 0.1% rising
51 French Guiana 2,489 kg/ha 2006 down 53.8% volatile
52 French Polynesia 1,908 kg/ha 2024 down 16.9% falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Taro — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
83 places, 4,663 data points, 1961–2024
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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.