Taro — Yield in Melanesia
Melanesia: Taro — Yield was 9,568 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Taro — Yield in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Melanesia recorded 9,568 kg/ha for taro — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.6% on the previous year and up 12.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — yield in Melanesia peaked at 9,568 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 6,612 kg/ha, in 1990.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Taro — Yield in Melanesia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,986 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 7,016 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1963 | 7,017 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 7,036 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1965 | 7,005 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1966 | 7,069 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1967 | 6,991 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1968 | 7,104 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1969 | 7,214 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1970 | 7,209 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1971 | 7,262 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1972 | 7,132 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1973 | 7,043 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1974 | 6,975 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1975 | 7,068 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1976 | 6,980 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1977 | 7,015 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1978 | 7,056 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1979 | 7,006 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1980 | 7,146 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1981 | 7,180 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1982 | 7,196 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1983 | 7,366 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1984 | 7,245 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1985 | 7,295 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1986 | 7,270 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1987 | 7,398 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1988 | 7,467 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1989 | 7,177 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1990 | 6,612 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1991 | 6,959 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1992 | 6,934 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1993 | 6,868 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1994 | 6,899 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1995 | 7,201 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1996 | 7,318 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1997 | 6,878 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1998 | 6,987 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1999 | 7,324 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 2000 | 7,378 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2001 | 7,238 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2002 | 7,426 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2003 | 7,411 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2004 | 7,520 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2005 | 7,630 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2006 | 7,641 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2007 | 7,682 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2008 | 7,331 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 2009 | 7,761 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 2010 | 7,898 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2011 | 7,899 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 8,422 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 2013 | 8,762 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2014 | 8,525 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2015 | 9,066 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 2016 | 8,650 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 2017 | 8,698 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2018 | 8,801 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2019 | 8,897 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2020 | 8,647 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2021 | 8,736 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2022 | 9,446 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 2023 | 9,509 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2024 | 9,568 kg/ha | +0.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,049 kg/ha | 6,986 kg/ha | 7,214 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,075 kg/ha | 6,975 kg/ha | 7,262 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,274 kg/ha | 7,146 kg/ha | 7,467 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,998 kg/ha | 6,612 kg/ha | 7,324 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,502 kg/ha | 7,238 kg/ha | 7,761 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,562 kg/ha | 7,898 kg/ha | 9,066 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9,181 kg/ha | 8,647 kg/ha | 9,568 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
- 2 Palestine 54,208 kg/ha compare
- 3 Egypt 36,345 kg/ha compare
- 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
- 6 Fiji 20,000 kg/ha compare
- 7 China, mainland 19,282 kg/ha compare
- 8 China 19,209 kg/ha compare
- 8 Polynesia 5,817 kg/ha compare
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- Other fruits, n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 0.2146 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross Production Value 11.86 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross -5.09 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.11 % change on previous year (2024)
- Maize (corn) — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 21.3 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -12.17 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is taro — yield in Melanesia?
- Taro — yield in Melanesia was 9,568 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 9,568 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest taro — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,612 kg/ha in 1990.
- How does Melanesia rank for taro — yield?
- Melanesia ranks 5th out of 10 countries with data for 2024.
- Is taro — yield rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 12.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Melanesia 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.