Taro — Yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs): Taro — Yield was 9,332 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Taro — Yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for taro — yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) is 9,332 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 3.9% on the previous year and up 7.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) peaked at 10,179 kg/ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 3,232 kg/ha, in 1974.
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 12th of 21 groups 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 Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,539 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,802 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1963 | 4,463 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 1964 | 3,852 kg/ha | -13.7% |
| 1965 | 4,450 kg/ha | +15.5% |
| 1966 | 4,466 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1967 | 3,495 kg/ha | -21.8% |
| 1968 | 3,686 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1969 | 3,490 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 1970 | 3,838 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1971 | 3,432 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 1972 | 3,474 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1973 | 3,365 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1974 | 3,232 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1975 | 3,310 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1976 | 3,541 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 1977 | 3,777 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1978 | 3,814 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1979 | 3,898 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1980 | 3,914 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1981 | 3,840 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1982 | 3,854 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1983 | 4,052 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1984 | 4,219 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1985 | 4,337 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1986 | 4,382 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1987 | 4,308 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1988 | 4,206 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1989 | 4,326 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1990 | 3,856 kg/ha | -10.8% |
| 1991 | 4,366 kg/ha | +13.2% |
| 1992 | 4,392 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1993 | 6,040 kg/ha | +37.5% |
| 1994 | 6,030 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1995 | 6,464 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 1996 | 6,683 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1997 | 6,271 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1998 | 6,871 kg/ha | +9.6% |
| 1999 | 6,774 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2000 | 7,255 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 2001 | 7,542 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2002 | 7,037 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 2003 | 6,813 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2004 | 6,566 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2005 | 7,254 kg/ha | +10.5% |
| 2006 | 7,335 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2007 | 7,734 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2008 | 9,047 kg/ha | +17.0% |
| 2009 | 9,282 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2010 | 8,718 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 2011 | 9,517 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 2012 | 9,473 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2013 | 9,723 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2014 | 8,692 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 2015 | 8,864 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2016 | 8,132 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 2017 | 8,389 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2018 | 8,691 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2019 | 9,134 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2020 | 10,080 kg/ha | +10.4% |
| 2021 | 10,179 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2022 | 9,163 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 2023 | 8,978 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2024 | 9,332 kg/ha | +3.9% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,138 kg/ha | 3,490 kg/ha | 4,802 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,568 kg/ha | 3,232 kg/ha | 3,898 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,144 kg/ha | 3,840 kg/ha | 4,382 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,775 kg/ha | 3,856 kg/ha | 6,871 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,587 kg/ha | 6,566 kg/ha | 9,282 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,933 kg/ha | 8,132 kg/ha | 9,723 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9,546 kg/ha | 8,978 kg/ha | 10,179 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
- 9 Solomon Islands 16,925 kg/ha compare
- 10 China, Taiwan Province of 16,058 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
- 15 Benin 12,500 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is taro — yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Taro — yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) was 9,332 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — yield recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 10,179 kg/ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest taro — yield recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,232 kg/ha in 1974.
- How does Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) rank for taro — yield?
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 12th out of 21 groups with data for 2024.
- Is taro — yield rising or falling in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 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.