Taro — Yield in Guinea
Guinea: Taro — Yield was 4,333 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Taro — Yield in Guinea, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Guinea recorded 4,333 kg/ha for taro — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 5.7% on the previous year and down 28.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — yield in Guinea peaked at 7,003 kg/ha in 1996 and was at its lowest, 3,806 kg/ha, in 2018.
Guinea ranks 49th of 59 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,236 kg/ha | 5,263 kg/ha | 6,522 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,382 kg/ha | 5,841 kg/ha | 6,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,307 kg/ha | 5,998 kg/ha | 6,569 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,381 kg/ha | 6,018 kg/ha | 7,003 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,275 kg/ha | 6,224 kg/ha | 6,312 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,396 kg/ha | 3,806 kg/ha | 6,301 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,516 kg/ha | 4,333 kg/ha | 4,600 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Guinea
- 46 Kiribati 5,340 kg/ha compare
- 46 Micronesia 5,340 kg/ha compare
- 48 Chad 5,158 kg/ha compare
- 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
More agriculture & rural data for Guinea
- Agriculture share gdp 31.29 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 31.29 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.8% (2016)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2016)
- Rural population 61.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.6% (2025)
- Rural population 9.28 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 31.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.87 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 231,171 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is taro — yield in Guinea?
- Taro — yield in Guinea was 4,333 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — yield recorded in Guinea?
- The highest recorded value was 7,003 kg/ha in 1996.
- What is the lowest taro — yield recorded in Guinea?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,806 kg/ha in 2018.
- How does Guinea rank for taro — yield?
- Guinea ranks 49th out of 59 countries with data for 2024.
- Is taro — yield rising or falling in Guinea?
- Over the last ten years it is down 28.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Guinea 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.