Taro — Yield in Benin
Benin: Taro — Yield was 12,500 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Taro — Yield in Benin, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for taro — yield in Benin is 12,500 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 87.0% on the previous year and up 314.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — yield in Benin peaked at 12,500 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 2,500 kg/ha, in 1982.
Benin ranks 16th of 59 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,501 kg/ha | 5,458 kg/ha | 6,818 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,096 kg/ha | 5,174 kg/ha | 7,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,553 kg/ha | 2,500 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,327 kg/ha | 3,709 kg/ha | 4,680 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,376 kg/ha | 2,704 kg/ha | 4,134 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,061 kg/ha | 2,545 kg/ha | 8,408 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,778 kg/ha | 3,019 kg/ha | 12,500 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Benin
- Agriculture share gdp 22.92 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 22.92 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 52.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2024)
- Rural population 46.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 6.91 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 22.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.63 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 20,973 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is taro — yield in Benin?
- Taro — yield in Benin was 12,500 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — yield recorded in Benin?
- The highest recorded value was 12,500 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest taro — yield recorded in Benin?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,500 kg/ha in 1982.
- How does Benin rank for taro — yield?
- Benin ranks 16th out of 59 countries with data for 2024.
- Is taro — yield rising or falling in Benin?
- Over the last ten years it is up 314.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Benin 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.