Yams — Area harvested in Oceania
Oceania: Yams — Area harvested was 31,894 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Area harvested in Oceania, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Oceania recorded 31,894 ha for yams — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 9.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — area harvested in Oceania peaked at 31,894 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 13,340 ha, in 1961.
Oceania ranks 13th of 20 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Yams — Area harvested in Oceania, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 13,340 ha | — |
| 1962 | 13,724 ha | +2.9% |
| 1963 | 14,005 ha | +2.0% |
| 1964 | 14,177 ha | +1.2% |
| 1965 | 14,580 ha | +2.8% |
| 1966 | 14,782 ha | +1.4% |
| 1967 | 15,184 ha | +2.7% |
| 1968 | 15,841 ha | +4.3% |
| 1969 | 16,191 ha | +2.2% |
| 1970 | 16,173 ha | -0.1% |
| 1971 | 16,253 ha | +0.5% |
| 1972 | 16,233 ha | -0.1% |
| 1973 | 15,975 ha | -1.6% |
| 1974 | 15,890 ha | -0.5% |
| 1975 | 16,100 ha | +1.3% |
| 1976 | 16,451 ha | +2.2% |
| 1977 | 16,795 ha | +2.1% |
| 1978 | 16,838 ha | +0.3% |
| 1979 | 17,163 ha | +1.9% |
| 1980 | 17,490 ha | +1.9% |
| 1981 | 17,507 ha | +0.1% |
| 1982 | 17,645 ha | +0.8% |
| 1983 | 18,095 ha | +2.6% |
| 1984 | 18,420 ha | +1.8% |
| 1985 | 18,540 ha | +0.7% |
| 1986 | 18,623 ha | +0.4% |
| 1987 | 18,427 ha | -1.1% |
| 1988 | 18,729 ha | +1.6% |
| 1989 | 19,037 ha | +1.6% |
| 1990 | 19,289 ha | +1.3% |
| 1991 | 20,149 ha | +4.5% |
| 1992 | 20,630 ha | +2.4% |
| 1993 | 19,454 ha | -5.7% |
| 1994 | 18,438 ha | -5.2% |
| 1995 | 18,256 ha | -1.0% |
| 1996 | 17,752 ha | -2.8% |
| 1997 | 17,509 ha | -1.4% |
| 1998 | 18,290 ha | +4.5% |
| 1999 | 18,319 ha | +0.2% |
| 2000 | 19,439 ha | +6.1% |
| 2001 | 20,741 ha | +6.7% |
| 2002 | 22,028 ha | +6.2% |
| 2003 | 22,886 ha | +3.9% |
| 2004 | 23,543 ha | +2.9% |
| 2005 | 24,992 ha | +6.2% |
| 2006 | 24,781 ha | -0.8% |
| 2007 | 26,216 ha | +5.8% |
| 2008 | 29,602 ha | +12.9% |
| 2009 | 26,524 ha | -10.4% |
| 2010 | 26,113 ha | -1.5% |
| 2011 | 27,064 ha | +3.6% |
| 2012 | 27,786 ha | +2.7% |
| 2013 | 28,220 ha | +1.6% |
| 2014 | 29,093 ha | +3.1% |
| 2015 | 30,711 ha | +5.6% |
| 2016 | 29,937 ha | -2.5% |
| 2017 | 30,138 ha | +0.7% |
| 2018 | 30,029 ha | -0.4% |
| 2019 | 29,302 ha | -2.4% |
| 2020 | 29,996 ha | +2.4% |
| 2021 | 29,800 ha | -0.7% |
| 2022 | 31,776 ha | +6.6% |
| 2023 | 31,871 ha | +0.3% |
| 2024 | 31,894 ha | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 14,647 ha | 13,340 ha | 16,191 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 16,387 ha | 15,890 ha | 17,163 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 18,251 ha | 17,490 ha | 19,037 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 18,809 ha | 17,509 ha | 20,630 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 24,075 ha | 19,439 ha | 29,602 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 28,839 ha | 26,113 ha | 30,711 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 31,067 ha | 29,800 ha | 31,894 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — area harvested in Oceania?
- Yams — area harvested in Oceania was 31,894 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — area harvested recorded in Oceania?
- The highest recorded value was 31,894 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest yams — area harvested recorded in Oceania?
- The lowest recorded value was 13,340 ha in 1961.
- How does Oceania rank for yams — area harvested?
- Oceania ranks 13th out of 20 groups with data for 2024.
- Is yams — area harvested rising or falling in Oceania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Oceania 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.