Taro — Yield in Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia: Taro — Yield was 12,807 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Taro — Yield in Saint Lucia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, taro — yield in Saint Lucia stood at 12,807 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.4% on the previous year and up 152.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — yield in Saint Lucia peaked at 25,000 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 3,925 kg/ha, in 2013.
Saint Lucia ranks 15th of 59 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,822 kg/ha | 4,400 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,997 kg/ha | 4,939 kg/ha | 5,026 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,070 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 5,263 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,089 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 5,328 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,010 kg/ha | 4,976 kg/ha | 5,029 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 13,236 kg/ha | 3,925 kg/ha | 25,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 14,159 kg/ha | 12,807 kg/ha | 19,163 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Saint Lucia
- Agriculture share gdp 1.66 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.66 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2020)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2020)
- Rural population 70.9% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.2% (2025)
- Rural population 127,732 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 44.04 million current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2,844 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is taro — yield in Saint Lucia?
- Taro — yield in Saint Lucia was 12,807 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — yield recorded in Saint Lucia?
- The highest recorded value was 25,000 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest taro — yield recorded in Saint Lucia?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,925 kg/ha in 2013.
- How does Saint Lucia rank for taro — yield?
- Saint Lucia ranks 15th out of 59 countries with data for 2024.
- Is taro — yield rising or falling in Saint Lucia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 152.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Saint Lucia 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.