Taro — Yield in Western Africa
Western Africa: Taro — Yield was 6,066 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Taro — Yield in Western Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for taro — yield in Western Africa is 6,066 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.1% on the previous year and up 17.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — yield in Western Africa peaked at 6,938 kg/ha in 2016 and was at its lowest, 1,816 kg/ha, in 1984.
Western Africa ranks 22nd of 24 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,796 kg/ha | 4,573 kg/ha | 4,902 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,997 kg/ha | 2,087 kg/ha | 3,682 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,874 kg/ha | 1,816 kg/ha | 3,894 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,433 kg/ha | 3,280 kg/ha | 6,067 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,987 kg/ha | 5,626 kg/ha | 6,409 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,762 kg/ha | 4,290 kg/ha | 6,938 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,031 kg/ha | 5,854 kg/ha | 6,093 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Western Africa
More agriculture & rural data for Western Africa
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 48 kg/An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 14.80 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 50,778 t (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 17.11 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 1.05 million ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 6,608 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 6.91 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 39,728 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 8.72 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 598,635 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is taro — yield in Western Africa?
- Taro — yield in Western Africa was 6,066 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — yield recorded in Western Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 6,938 kg/ha in 2016.
- What is the lowest taro — yield recorded in Western Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,816 kg/ha in 1984.
- How does Western Africa rank for taro — yield?
- Western Africa ranks 22nd out of 24 groups with data for 2024.
- Is taro — yield rising or falling in Western Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 17.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Western Africa 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.