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...
What the numbers show
Taro — Yield is currently reported for 59 countries. The highest value is 72,023 kg/ha in Guyana; the lowest is 1,194 kg/ha in Côte d'Ivoire.
The median across all reporting countries is 7,860 kg/ha, and the mean is 11,361 kg/ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 60.
Over the past decade 35 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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guyana | 72,023 kg/ha | 2024 | up 545.9% | 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 |
| 5 | Cyprus | 22,094 kg/ha | 2017 | down 12.9% | rising |
| 6 | Fiji | 20,000 kg/ha | 2024 | up 116.2% | rising |
| 7 | Türkiye | 19,827 kg/ha | 2017 | up 20.2% | volatile |
| 8 | China, mainland | 19,282 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.2% | rising |
| 9 | China | 19,209 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 10 | Solomon Islands | 16,925 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.6% | rising |
| 11 | China, Taiwan Province of | 16,058 kg/ha | 2024 | down 9.3% | rising |
| 12 | Lebanon | 14,667 kg/ha | 2024 | down 14.1% | rising |
| 13 | Grenada | 14,377 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.1% | falling |
| 14 | Japan | 13,060 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.7% | falling |
| 15 | Saint Lucia | 12,807 kg/ha | 2024 | up 152.6% | volatile |
| 16 | Benin | 12,500 kg/ha | 2024 | up 314.9% | falling |
| 17 | Trinidad and Tobago | 12,336 kg/ha | 2024 | up 39.1% | falling |
| 18 | Mauritius | 11,552 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.5% | falling |
| 19 | Dominica | 10,975 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.6% | rising |
| 20 | Caribbean | 10,587 kg/ha | 2024 | up 6.9% | rising |
| 21 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 10,386 kg/ha | 2024 | down 7.7% | flat |
| 22 | Thailand | 10,108 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.7% | falling |
| 23 | Nicaragua | 9,659 kg/ha | 2023 | down 0.7% | falling |
| 24 | Melanesia | 9,568 kg/ha | 2024 | up 12.2% | rising |
| 25 | Liberia | 9,211 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.6% | rising |
| 26 | Republic of Korea | 9,091 kg/ha | 1980 | up 8.4% | rising |
| 27 | Panama | 8,767 kg/ha | 2024 | down 22.8% | falling |
| 28 | Burundi | 8,213 kg/ha | 2024 | up 24.8% | rising |
| 29 | Comoros | 8,134 kg/ha | 2024 | up 7.8% | rising |
| 30 | Papua New Guinea | 7,860 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.9% | rising |
| 31 | Cameroon | 7,771 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.0% | rising |
| 32 | Tonga | 7,728 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.6% | rising |
| 33 | Ghana | 7,200 kg/ha | 2024 | up 10.8% | rising |
| 34 | Rwanda | 7,068 kg/ha | 2024 | up 163.4% | rising |
| 35 | Niue | 6,554 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.8% | rising |
| 36 | Philippines | 6,209 kg/ha | 2024 | down 13.5% | rising |
| 37 | Nigeria | 6,175 kg/ha | 2024 | up 20.7% | rising |
| 38 | Sao Tome and Principe | 6,152 kg/ha | 2024 | up 47.9% | rising |
| 39 | Honduras | 6,025 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 40 | Madagascar | 6,002 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.9% | falling |
| 41 | Gabon | 5,950 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.6% | rising |
| 42 | Maldives | 5,839 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.2% | falling |
| 43 | Polynesia | 5,817 kg/ha | 2024 | up 6.5% | falling |
| 44 | Samoa | 5,575 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.4% | falling |
| 45 | New Caledonia | 5,571 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 46 | Micronesia | 5,340 kg/ha | 2024 | down 8.0% | rising |
| 46 | Kiribati | 5,340 kg/ha | 2024 | down 8.0% | rising |
| 48 | Chad | 5,158 kg/ha | 2024 | up 122.7% | volatile |
| 49 | Guinea | 4,333 kg/ha | 2024 | down 28.2% | falling |
| 50 | Antigua and Barbuda | 4,061 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 51 | Puerto Rico | 3,936 kg/ha | 2024 | down 23.5% | falling |
| 52 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 3,691 kg/ha | 2024 | down 4.9% | falling |
| 53 | Barbados | 3,488 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 54 | Togo | 3,435 kg/ha | 2024 | up 20.6% | falling |
| 55 | Bhutan | 3,153 kg/ha | 2024 | down 22.6% | falling |
| 56 | Sierra Leone | 2,564 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 57 | French Guiana | 2,489 kg/ha | 2006 | down 53.8% | volatile |
| 58 | French Polynesia | 1,908 kg/ha | 2024 | down 16.9% | falling |
| 59 | Côte d'Ivoire | 1,194 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.9% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- South America 72,023 kg/ha
- Northern Africa 36,345 kg/ha
- European Union (27) 22,094 kg/ha
- Eastern Asia 18,699 kg/ha
- Asia 16,305 kg/ha
- Eastern Africa 15,364 kg/ha
- Western Asia 14,712 kg/ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 14,481 kg/ha
- Americas 11,400 kg/ha
- United States of America 11,200 kg/ha
- Northern America 11,200 kg/ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 10,908 kg/ha
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.