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 17th of 23 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.
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 |
Countries ranked near Oceania
- 14 Melanesia 31,364 ha compare
- 16 Democratic Republic of the Congo 27,602 ha compare
- 17 Brazil 26,216 ha compare
- 18 Chad 25,000 ha compare
- 19 Papua New Guinea 21,947 ha compare
- 20 South Sudan 21,922 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Oceania
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 6,287 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 97,509 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 1.71 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 626.54 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 581 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 79,147 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 497,570 t (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 5.39 million An (2024)
- Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 64.03 million An (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Production 31.52 million t (2024)
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 17th out of 23 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.