Taro — Yield in South-Eastern Asia
South-Eastern Asia: Taro — Yield was 8,385 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Taro — Yield in South-Eastern Asia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for taro — yield in South-Eastern Asia is 8,385 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 7.2% on the previous year and down 9.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — yield in South-Eastern Asia peaked at 9,553 kg/ha in 2018 and was at its lowest, 4,260 kg/ha, in 1985.
That places South-Eastern Asia 16th out of 21 groups 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.
Taro — Yield in South-Eastern Asia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,207 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,110 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1963 | 6,125 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1964 | 6,040 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1965 | 6,247 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1966 | 6,166 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1967 | 5,922 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1968 | 5,875 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1969 | 5,960 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1970 | 5,622 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1971 | 5,437 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1972 | 5,156 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1973 | 5,353 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1974 | 4,931 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1975 | 5,235 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1976 | 4,452 kg/ha | -14.9% |
| 1977 | 4,636 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1978 | 4,862 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1979 | 5,179 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1980 | 4,846 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 1981 | 4,725 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1982 | 4,343 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1983 | 4,274 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1984 | 4,504 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1985 | 4,260 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1986 | 4,573 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1987 | 4,692 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1988 | 4,552 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1989 | 4,544 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1990 | 4,492 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1991 | 5,947 kg/ha | +32.4% |
| 1992 | 6,151 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1993 | 6,119 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1994 | 5,954 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1995 | 6,022 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1996 | 7,019 kg/ha | +16.6% |
| 1997 | 7,392 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1998 | 6,818 kg/ha | -7.8% |
| 1999 | 6,637 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2000 | 6,661 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2001 | 6,722 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2002 | 6,876 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2003 | 6,938 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2004 | 7,122 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2005 | 7,501 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2006 | 7,536 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2007 | 7,614 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2008 | 7,689 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2009 | 7,736 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2010 | 7,815 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2011 | 7,830 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 7,947 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2013 | 8,186 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2014 | 9,218 kg/ha | +12.6% |
| 2015 | 9,199 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2016 | 9,385 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2017 | 9,302 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2018 | 9,553 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2019 | 9,049 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 2020 | 9,232 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2021 | 9,215 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2022 | 8,952 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2023 | 9,031 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2024 | 8,385 kg/ha | -7.2% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Taro — Yield in South-Eastern Asia changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | +32.4% | 4,492 kg/ha | 5,947 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,072 kg/ha | 5,875 kg/ha | 6,247 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,086 kg/ha | 4,452 kg/ha | 5,622 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,531 kg/ha | 4,260 kg/ha | 4,846 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,255 kg/ha | 4,492 kg/ha | 7,392 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,240 kg/ha | 6,661 kg/ha | 7,736 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,748 kg/ha | 7,815 kg/ha | 9,553 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,963 kg/ha | 8,385 kg/ha | 9,232 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is taro — yield in South-Eastern Asia?
- Taro — yield in South-Eastern Asia was 8,385 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — yield recorded in South-Eastern Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 9,553 kg/ha in 2018.
- What is the lowest taro — yield recorded in South-Eastern Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,260 kg/ha in 1985.
- How does South-Eastern Asia rank for taro — yield?
- South-Eastern Asia ranks 16th out of 21 groups with data for 2024.
- Is taro — yield rising or falling in South-Eastern Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 9.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this South-Eastern Asia 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.