Yams — Area harvested in Cameroon
Cameroon: Yams — Area harvested was 80,505 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Area harvested in Cameroon, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Cameroon recorded 80,505 ha for yams — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 4.4% on the previous year and up 55.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — area harvested in Cameroon peaked at 80,505 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 15,442 ha, in 1989.
Cameroon ranks 6th of 61 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Yams — Area harvested in Cameroon, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 36,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 36,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 36,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 35,672 ha | -0.9% |
| 1965 | 35,515 ha | -0.4% |
| 1966 | 38,888 ha | +9.5% |
| 1967 | 49,521 ha | +27.3% |
| 1968 | 51,808 ha | +4.6% |
| 1969 | 46,676 ha | -9.9% |
| 1970 | 61,770 ha | +32.3% |
| 1971 | 61,067 ha | -1.1% |
| 1972 | 59,680 ha | -2.3% |
| 1973 | 70,377 ha | +17.9% |
| 1974 | 78,344 ha | +11.3% |
| 1975 | 60,000 ha | -23.4% |
| 1976 | 56,000 ha | -6.7% |
| 1977 | 55,000 ha | -1.8% |
| 1978 | 55,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 55,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 55,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 55,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 55,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 42,000 ha | -23.6% |
| 1984 | 26,150 ha | -37.7% |
| 1985 | 28,850 ha | +10.3% |
| 1986 | 32,830 ha | +13.8% |
| 1987 | 27,104 ha | -17.4% |
| 1988 | 26,587 ha | -1.9% |
| 1989 | 15,442 ha | -41.9% |
| 1990 | 22,848 ha | +48.0% |
| 1991 | 24,000 ha | +5.0% |
| 1992 | 21,000 ha | -12.5% |
| 1993 | 18,000 ha | -14.3% |
| 1994 | 17,000 ha | -5.6% |
| 1995 | 16,770 ha | -1.4% |
| 1996 | 16,000 ha | -4.6% |
| 1997 | 19,000 ha | +18.8% |
| 1998 | 32,000 ha | +68.4% |
| 1999 | 28,071 ha | -12.3% |
| 2000 | 28,038 ha | -0.1% |
| 2001 | 28,000 ha | -0.1% |
| 2002 | 35,877 ha | +28.1% |
| 2003 | 36,595 ha | +2.0% |
| 2004 | 37,327 ha | +2.0% |
| 2005 | 35,094 ha | -6.0% |
| 2006 | 36,409 ha | +3.7% |
| 2007 | 31,670 ha | -13.0% |
| 2008 | 33,026 ha | +4.3% |
| 2009 | 38,509 ha | +16.6% |
| 2010 | 44,768 ha | +16.3% |
| 2011 | 51,016 ha | +14.0% |
| 2012 | 47,744 ha | -6.4% |
| 2013 | 53,604 ha | +12.3% |
| 2014 | 51,846 ha | -3.3% |
| 2015 | 54,321 ha | +4.8% |
| 2016 | 73,763 ha | +35.8% |
| 2017 | 65,713 ha | -10.9% |
| 2018 | 69,367 ha | +5.6% |
| 2019 | 71,251 ha | +2.7% |
| 2020 | 71,519 ha | +0.4% |
| 2021 | 69,239 ha | -3.2% |
| 2022 | 73,079 ha | +5.5% |
| 2023 | 77,096 ha | +5.5% |
| 2024 | 80,505 ha | +4.4% |
Cameroon compared with similar countries
- Cameroon's 80,505 ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 6,684 ha, 12.0× the median. (18 countries reporting)
- Cameroon's 80,505 ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 7,822 ha, 10.3× the median. (23 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Yams — Area harvested in Cameroon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | +68.4% | 19,000 ha | 32,000 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 40,676 ha | 35,515 ha | 51,808 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 61,224 ha | 55,000 ha | 78,344 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 36,396 ha | 15,442 ha | 55,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 21,469 ha | 16,000 ha | 32,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 34,054 ha | 28,000 ha | 38,509 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 58,339 ha | 44,768 ha | 73,763 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 74,288 ha | 69,239 ha | 80,505 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Cameroon
- 3 Benin 209,313 ha compare
- 4 Togo 109,444 ha compare
- 5 Côte d'Ivoire 1.50 million ha compare
- 5 Sudan 83,215 ha compare
- 5 Melanesia 31,364 ha compare
- 6 Democratic Republic of the Congo 27,602 ha compare
- 7 Ethiopia PDR 64,000 ha compare
- 7 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 5,266 ha compare
- 8 Sudan (former) 58,933 ha compare
- 8 United Republic of Tanzania 1,513 ha compare
- 9 Guinea 39,033 ha compare
- 9 Polynesia 530 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Cameroon
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 0.9031 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1685 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 332.28 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.98 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4433 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 16.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 16.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — area harvested in Cameroon?
- Yams — area harvested in Cameroon was 80,505 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — area harvested recorded in Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 80,505 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest yams — area harvested recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 15,442 ha in 1989.
- How does Cameroon rank for yams — area harvested?
- Cameroon ranks 6th out of 61 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — area harvested rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 55.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cameroon 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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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.