Taro — Yield in Rwanda
Rwanda: Taro — Yield was 7,068 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Taro — Yield in Rwanda, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, taro — yield in Rwanda stood at 7,068 kg/ha.
The figure is down 0.6% on the previous year and up 163.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — yield in Rwanda peaked at 7,868 kg/ha in 2011 and was at its lowest, 1,565 kg/ha, in 1990.
That places Rwanda 34th out of 59 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,040 kg/ha | 3,500 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,000 kg/ha | 3,406 kg/ha | 5,254 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,445 kg/ha | 4,190 kg/ha | 6,044 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,396 kg/ha | 1,565 kg/ha | 4,693 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,835 kg/ha | 4,266 kg/ha | 5,200 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,103 kg/ha | 2,683 kg/ha | 7,868 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,835 kg/ha | 6,481 kg/ha | 7,110 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Rwanda
- Agriculture share gdp 20.3 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 20.3 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2022)
- Rural population 69.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 10.07 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 20.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.32 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.44 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is taro — yield in Rwanda?
- Taro — yield in Rwanda was 7,068 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — yield recorded in Rwanda?
- The highest recorded value was 7,868 kg/ha in 2011.
- What is the lowest taro — yield recorded in Rwanda?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,565 kg/ha in 1990.
- How does Rwanda rank for taro — yield?
- Rwanda ranks 34th out of 59 countries with data for 2024.
- Is taro — yield rising or falling in Rwanda?
- Over the last ten years it is up 163.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Rwanda 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.