Taro — Yield in Kiribati
Kiribati: Taro — Yield was 5,340 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Taro — Yield in Kiribati, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Kiribati recorded 5,340 kg/ha for taro — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.1% on the previous year and down 8.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — yield in Kiribati peaked at 5,832 kg/ha in 2016 and was at its lowest, 3,972 kg/ha, in 1991.
That places Kiribati 46th out of 59 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 4,281 kg/ha | 4,130 kg/ha | 4,706 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,579 kg/ha | 4,259 kg/ha | 4,848 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,865 kg/ha | 4,054 kg/ha | 5,405 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,179 kg/ha | 3,972 kg/ha | 4,558 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,654 kg/ha | 4,250 kg/ha | 5,041 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,579 kg/ha | 5,255 kg/ha | 5,832 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,343 kg/ha | 5,224 kg/ha | 5,441 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Kiribati
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 23.2% (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 23.17 (2024)
- Agriculture share gdp 23.17 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2021)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.3% (2021)
- Rural population 36.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.0% (2025)
- Rural population 49,975 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 79.49 million current US$ (2024)
- Aquaculture farmed fish production 8 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is taro — yield in Kiribati?
- Taro — yield in Kiribati was 5,340 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — yield recorded in Kiribati?
- The highest recorded value was 5,832 kg/ha in 2016.
- What is the lowest taro — yield recorded in Kiribati?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,972 kg/ha in 1991.
- How does Kiribati rank for taro — yield?
- Kiribati ranks 46th out of 59 countries with data for 2024.
- Is taro — yield rising or falling in Kiribati?
- Over the last ten years it is down 8.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Kiribati 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.