Taro — Yield in Caribbean
Caribbean: Taro — Yield was 10,587 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Taro — Yield in Caribbean, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, taro — yield in Caribbean stood at 10,587 kg/ha.
The figure is down 0.6% on the previous year and up 6.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — yield in Caribbean peaked at 10,899 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 8,954 kg/ha, in 1987.
Caribbean ranks 11th of 21 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Taro — Yield in Caribbean, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 9,118 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 9,165 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1963 | 9,268 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1964 | 9,372 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1965 | 9,470 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1966 | 9,417 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1967 | 9,571 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1968 | 9,773 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1969 | 9,943 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1970 | 9,886 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1971 | 9,854 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1972 | 9,872 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1973 | 9,896 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1974 | 9,713 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1975 | 9,598 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1976 | 9,692 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1977 | 9,714 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1978 | 9,703 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1979 | 10,403 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 1980 | 10,460 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1981 | 10,553 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1982 | 10,602 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1983 | 10,448 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1984 | 10,451 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 9,502 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 1986 | 10,084 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1987 | 8,954 kg/ha | -11.2% |
| 1988 | 9,301 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1989 | 9,368 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1990 | 9,685 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1991 | 9,516 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1992 | 9,234 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1993 | 9,691 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1994 | 10,044 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1995 | 10,322 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1996 | 10,574 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1997 | 10,306 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1998 | 10,204 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1999 | 10,185 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2000 | 10,081 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2001 | 10,046 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2002 | 10,169 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2003 | 10,014 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2004 | 9,958 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2005 | 10,037 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2006 | 10,085 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2007 | 10,047 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2008 | 10,255 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2009 | 10,648 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2010 | 10,189 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2011 | 9,786 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 2012 | 10,486 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 2013 | 9,447 kg/ha | -9.9% |
| 2014 | 9,902 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 2015 | 9,652 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2016 | 10,266 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 2017 | 10,410 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2018 | 9,888 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2019 | 10,899 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 2020 | 9,717 kg/ha | -10.8% |
| 2021 | 10,574 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 2022 | 10,115 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2023 | 10,648 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2024 | 10,587 kg/ha | -0.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,455 kg/ha | 9,118 kg/ha | 9,943 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 9,833 kg/ha | 9,598 kg/ha | 10,403 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,972 kg/ha | 8,954 kg/ha | 10,602 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,976 kg/ha | 9,234 kg/ha | 10,574 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,134 kg/ha | 9,958 kg/ha | 10,648 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,093 kg/ha | 9,447 kg/ha | 10,899 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,328 kg/ha | 9,717 kg/ha | 10,648 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Caribbean
- 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
- 12 Grenada 14,377 kg/ha compare
- 13 Japan 13,060 kg/ha compare
- 14 Saint Lucia 12,807 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is taro — yield in Caribbean?
- Taro — yield in Caribbean was 10,587 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — yield recorded in Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 10,899 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest taro — yield recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,954 kg/ha in 1987.
- How does Caribbean rank for taro — yield?
- Caribbean ranks 11th out of 21 countries with data for 2024.
- Is taro — yield rising or falling in Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Caribbean 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.