Taro — Yield in Barbados
Barbados: Taro — Yield was 3,488 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Taro — Yield in Barbados, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, taro — yield in Barbados stood at 3,488 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — yield in Barbados peaked at 5,322 kg/ha in 1993 and was at its lowest, 2,410 kg/ha, in 1989.
Barbados ranks 53rd of 59 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,449 kg/ha | 3,356 kg/ha | 3,500 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,409 kg/ha | 3,371 kg/ha | 3,438 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,208 kg/ha | 2,410 kg/ha | 3,429 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,860 kg/ha | 3,100 kg/ha | 5,322 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,628 kg/ha | 3,333 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,516 kg/ha | 3,474 kg/ha | 3,570 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,487 kg/ha | 3,485 kg/ha | 3,488 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Barbados
- 50 Antigua and Barbuda 4,061 kg/ha compare
- 51 Puerto Rico 3,936 kg/ha compare
- 52 Democratic Republic of the Congo 3,691 kg/ha compare
- 54 Togo 3,435 kg/ha compare
- 55 Bhutan 3,153 kg/ha compare
- 56 Sierra Leone 2,564 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Barbados
- Agriculture share gdp 1.55 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.55 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2024)
- Rural population 40.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.3% (2025)
- Rural population 113,898 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.6% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 118.12 million current US$ (2024)
- Bananas — Production 981.37 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is taro — yield in Barbados?
- Taro — yield in Barbados was 3,488 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — yield recorded in Barbados?
- The highest recorded value was 5,322 kg/ha in 1993.
- What is the lowest taro — yield recorded in Barbados?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,410 kg/ha in 1989.
- How does Barbados rank for taro — yield?
- Barbados ranks 53rd out of 59 countries with data for 2024.
- Is taro — yield rising or falling in Barbados?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Barbados 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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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.