Taro — Yield in China, mainland
China, mainland: Taro — Yield was 19,282 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Taro — Yield in China, mainland, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
China, mainland recorded 19,282 kg/ha for taro — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 0.7% on the previous year and down 0.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — yield in China, mainland peaked at 19,904 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 10,714 kg/ha, in 1964.
China, mainland ranks 7th of 52 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Taro — Yield in China, mainland, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 11,290 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 11,231 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1963 | 11,538 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1964 | 10,714 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 1965 | 11,429 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1966 | 11,429 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 11,714 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1968 | 12,143 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1969 | 12,000 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1970 | 12,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 12,267 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1972 | 11,875 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1973 | 12,125 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1974 | 11,687 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1975 | 11,529 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1976 | 11,111 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1977 | 13,187 kg/ha | +18.7% |
| 1978 | 13,044 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1979 | 12,903 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1980 | 12,632 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1981 | 12,708 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1982 | 12,755 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1983 | 13,000 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1984 | 13,333 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1985 | 12,000 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 1986 | 13,684 kg/ha | +14.0% |
| 1987 | 13,793 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1988 | 12,941 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1989 | 13,250 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1990 | 17,378 kg/ha | +31.2% |
| 1991 | 17,403 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1992 | 17,429 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1993 | 17,454 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1994 | 17,479 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1995 | 17,504 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1996 | 17,474 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1997 | 17,383 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1998 | 17,378 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1999 | 17,470 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2000 | 17,857 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2001 | 17,828 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2002 | 18,235 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2003 | 17,778 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2004 | 17,614 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2005 | 17,647 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2006 | 17,442 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2007 | 18,391 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2008 | 18,182 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2009 | 18,333 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2010 | 18,438 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2011 | 18,333 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2012 | 19,130 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2013 | 19,355 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2014 | 19,326 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2015 | 19,301 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 19,381 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2017 | 19,495 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2018 | 19,649 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2019 | 19,783 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2020 | 19,904 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2021 | 19,382 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 2022 | 19,471 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2023 | 19,416 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2024 | 19,282 kg/ha | -0.7% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Taro — Yield in China, mainland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | +31.2% | 13,250 kg/ha | 17,378 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11,499 kg/ha | 10,714 kg/ha | 12,143 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 12,173 kg/ha | 11,111 kg/ha | 13,187 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 13,010 kg/ha | 12,000 kg/ha | 13,793 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 17,435 kg/ha | 17,378 kg/ha | 17,504 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 17,931 kg/ha | 17,442 kg/ha | 18,391 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 19,219 kg/ha | 18,333 kg/ha | 19,783 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 19,491 kg/ha | 19,282 kg/ha | 19,904 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near China, mainland
- 4 Ethiopia 24,749 kg/ha compare
- 4 Lao People's Democratic Republic 10,386 kg/ha compare
- 5 Cyprus 22,094 kg/ha compare
- 5 Melanesia 9,568 kg/ha compare
- 6 Fiji 20,000 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
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Frequently asked questions
- What is taro — yield in China, mainland?
- Taro — yield in China, mainland was 19,282 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — yield recorded in China, mainland?
- The highest recorded value was 19,904 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest taro — yield recorded in China, mainland?
- The lowest recorded value was 10,714 kg/ha in 1964.
- How does China, mainland rank for taro — yield?
- China, mainland ranks 7th out of 52 countries with data for 2024.
- Is taro — yield rising or falling in China, mainland?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this China, mainland 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.