Taro — Yield in Maldives
Maldives: Taro — Yield was 5,839 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Taro — Yield in Maldives, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, taro — yield in Maldives stood at 5,839 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and up 0.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — yield in Maldives peaked at 10,400 kg/ha in 1987 and was at its lowest, 2,354 kg/ha, in 2000.
That places Maldives 42nd out of 59 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,107 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10,200 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,063 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10,210 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,030 kg/ha | 9,818 kg/ha | 10,400 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,548 kg/ha | 5,076 kg/ha | 5,846 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,565 kg/ha | 2,354 kg/ha | 6,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,818 kg/ha | 5,696 kg/ha | 5,876 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,837 kg/ha | 5,821 kg/ha | 5,849 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Maldives
- Agriculture share gdp 4.59 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 4.59 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2024)
- Rural population 57.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.5% (2025)
- Rural population 304,531 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 355.38 million current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 686.52 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is taro — yield in Maldives?
- Taro — yield in Maldives was 5,839 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — yield recorded in Maldives?
- The highest recorded value was 10,400 kg/ha in 1987.
- What is the lowest taro — yield recorded in Maldives?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,354 kg/ha in 2000.
- How does Maldives rank for taro — yield?
- Maldives ranks 42nd out of 59 countries with data for 2024.
- Is taro — yield rising or falling in Maldives?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Maldives 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.