Yams — Area harvested in Haiti
Haiti: Yams — Area harvested was 4,862 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Area harvested in Haiti, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for yams — area harvested in Haiti is 4,862 ha, measured in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of down 14.8% on the previous year and down 92.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — area harvested in Haiti peaked at 61,715 ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 4,862 ha, in 2024.
That places Haiti 32nd out of 67 countries 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 | 21,500 ha | 20,000 ha | 22,500 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 27,130 ha | 23,500 ha | 33,643 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 33,850 ha | 31,000 ha | 36,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 39,613 ha | 34,000 ha | 48,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 38,314 ha | 33,404 ha | 45,989 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 29,997 ha | 6,531 ha | 61,715 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 12,320 ha | 4,862 ha | 24,682 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Haiti
- Agriculture share gdp 15.81 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 15.81 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.2% (2016)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2016)
- Rural population 44.4% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.2% (2025)
- Rural population 5.28 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 15.8% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.07 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 264,881 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — area harvested in Haiti?
- Yams — area harvested in Haiti was 4,862 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — area harvested recorded in Haiti?
- The highest recorded value was 61,715 ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest yams — area harvested recorded in Haiti?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,862 ha in 2024.
- How does Haiti rank for yams — area harvested?
- Haiti ranks 32nd out of 67 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — area harvested rising or falling in Haiti?
- Over the last ten years it is down 92.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Haiti 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.