Yams — Area harvested in Americas
Americas: Yams — Area harvested was 100,763 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Area harvested in Americas, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Americas recorded 100,763 ha for yams — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.3% on the previous year and down 34.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — area harvested in Americas peaked at 208,923 ha in 2009 and was at its lowest, 67,951 ha, in 1961.
That places Americas 8th out of 23 groups 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 | 73,864 ha | 67,951 ha | 79,234 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 84,665 ha | 76,984 ha | 96,090 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 99,374 ha | 92,080 ha | 106,229 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 120,631 ha | 93,163 ha | 160,147 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 143,040 ha | 114,432 ha | 208,923 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 148,685 ha | 102,446 ha | 208,352 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 106,149 ha | 100,184 ha | 117,540 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Americas
More agriculture & rural data for Americas
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 94 kg/An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 25.19 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532,819 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 63,435 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 397,122 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 1.02 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 267.48 million An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 25.17 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.37 million ha (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 191.53 million An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — area harvested in Americas?
- Yams — area harvested in Americas was 100,763 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — area harvested recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 208,923 ha in 2009.
- What is the lowest yams — area harvested recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 67,951 ha in 1961.
- How does Americas rank for yams — area harvested?
- Americas ranks 8th out of 23 groups with data for 2024.
- Is yams — area harvested rising or falling in Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is down 34.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Americas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Yams — Area harvested. 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.