Taro — Yield in Americas
Americas: Taro — Yield was 11,400 kg/ha in 2024. ▬ Flat
Taro — Yield in Americas, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Americas recorded 11,400 kg/ha for taro — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.4% on the previous year and up 0.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — yield in Americas peaked at 16,235 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 9,355 kg/ha, in 2005.
That places Americas 8th out of 21 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
Taro — Yield in Americas, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 11,173 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 12,080 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 1963 | 12,022 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1964 | 10,148 kg/ha | -15.6% |
| 1965 | 10,325 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1966 | 10,239 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1967 | 10,828 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1968 | 10,886 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1969 | 10,924 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1970 | 12,229 kg/ha | +11.9% |
| 1971 | 13,148 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1972 | 13,202 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1973 | 12,969 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1974 | 12,786 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1975 | 10,169 kg/ha | -20.5% |
| 1976 | 9,777 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1977 | 9,916 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1978 | 9,852 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1979 | 11,061 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 1980 | 11,216 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1981 | 11,196 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1982 | 11,301 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1983 | 11,011 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1984 | 10,968 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1985 | 10,458 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1986 | 10,873 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1987 | 9,455 kg/ha | -13.0% |
| 1988 | 9,611 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1989 | 10,386 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 1990 | 11,076 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 1991 | 10,939 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1992 | 10,667 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1993 | 11,177 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1994 | 10,927 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1995 | 10,673 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1996 | 10,672 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1997 | 10,648 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1998 | 10,633 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1999 | 10,670 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2000 | 10,344 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2001 | 10,034 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2002 | 9,916 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2003 | 9,616 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2004 | 9,491 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2005 | 9,355 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2006 | 9,516 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2007 | 11,133 kg/ha | +17.0% |
| 2008 | 11,301 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2009 | 11,388 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2010 | 11,610 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2011 | 11,634 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 9,574 kg/ha | -17.7% |
| 2013 | 9,732 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2014 | 11,379 kg/ha | +16.9% |
| 2015 | 16,235 kg/ha | +42.7% |
| 2016 | 10,233 kg/ha | -37.0% |
| 2017 | 10,588 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2018 | 10,263 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2019 | 11,416 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 2020 | 10,431 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 2021 | 10,607 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2022 | 10,536 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2023 | 11,356 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 2024 | 11,400 kg/ha | +0.4% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Taro — Yield in Americas changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | +42.7% | 11,379 kg/ha | 16,235 kg/ha |
| 2016 | -37.0% | 16,235 kg/ha | 10,233 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,958 kg/ha | 10,148 kg/ha | 12,080 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,511 kg/ha | 9,777 kg/ha | 13,202 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,647 kg/ha | 9,455 kg/ha | 11,301 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 10,808 kg/ha | 10,633 kg/ha | 11,177 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,209 kg/ha | 9,355 kg/ha | 11,388 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,266 kg/ha | 9,574 kg/ha | 16,235 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,866 kg/ha | 10,431 kg/ha | 11,400 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Americas
- 5 Cyprus 22,094 kg/ha compare
- 5 Melanesia 9,568 kg/ha compare
- 6 Fiji 20,000 kg/ha compare
- 7 China, mainland 19,282 kg/ha compare
- 8 China 19,209 kg/ha compare
- 8 Polynesia 5,817 kg/ha compare
- 9 Solomon Islands 16,925 kg/ha compare
- 9 Micronesia 5,340 kg/ha compare
- 10 China, Taiwan Province of 16,058 kg/ha compare
- 10 Democratic Republic of the Congo 3,691 kg/ha compare
- 11 Lebanon 14,667 kg/ha compare
- 11 Caribbean 10,587 kg/ha compare
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- Vegetables Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -5.76 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) -1.67 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 1.04 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.65 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.24 % change on previous year (2024)
- Chickens — Stocks, annual growth rate 1.5 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is taro — yield in Americas?
- Taro — yield in Americas was 11,400 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — yield recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 16,235 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest taro — yield recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 9,355 kg/ha in 2005.
- How does Americas rank for taro — yield?
- Americas ranks 8th out of 21 groups with data for 2024.
- Is taro — yield rising or falling in Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Americas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Taro — Yield. 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.