Yams — Area harvested in Polynesia
Polynesia: Yams — Area harvested was 530 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Yams — Area harvested in Polynesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Polynesia recorded 530 ha for yams — area harvested in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 8.8% on the previous year and down 77.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — area harvested in Polynesia peaked at 3,724 ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 530 ha, in 2024.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Yams — Area harvested in Polynesia, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2,350 ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,412 ha | +2.6% |
| 1963 | 2,393 ha | -0.8% |
| 1964 | 2,365 ha | -1.2% |
| 1965 | 2,368 ha | +0.1% |
| 1966 | 2,370 ha | +0.1% |
| 1967 | 2,370 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 2,373 ha | +0.1% |
| 1969 | 2,373 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 2,373 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 2,403 ha | +1.3% |
| 1972 | 2,433 ha | +1.2% |
| 1973 | 2,475 ha | +1.7% |
| 1974 | 2,532 ha | +2.3% |
| 1975 | 2,540 ha | +0.3% |
| 1976 | 2,538 ha | -0.1% |
| 1977 | 2,450 ha | -3.5% |
| 1978 | 2,420 ha | -1.2% |
| 1979 | 2,370 ha | -2.1% |
| 1980 | 2,270 ha | -4.2% |
| 1981 | 2,180 ha | -4.0% |
| 1982 | 2,090 ha | -4.1% |
| 1983 | 2,000 ha | -4.3% |
| 1984 | 1,920 ha | -4.0% |
| 1985 | 1,840 ha | -4.2% |
| 1986 | 1,767 ha | -4.0% |
| 1987 | 1,690 ha | -4.4% |
| 1988 | 1,615 ha | -4.4% |
| 1989 | 1,565 ha | -3.1% |
| 1990 | 1,501 ha | -4.1% |
| 1991 | 951 ha | -36.6% |
| 1992 | 1,212 ha | +27.4% |
| 1993 | 1,053 ha | -13.1% |
| 1994 | 854 ha | -18.9% |
| 1995 | 968 ha | +13.3% |
| 1996 | 990 ha | +2.3% |
| 1997 | 1,008 ha | +1.8% |
| 1998 | 1,013 ha | +0.5% |
| 1999 | 924 ha | -8.8% |
| 2000 | 965 ha | +4.4% |
| 2001 | 1,054 ha | +9.2% |
| 2002 | 1,044 ha | -0.9% |
| 2003 | 1,114 ha | +6.7% |
| 2004 | 1,136 ha | +2.0% |
| 2005 | 1,163 ha | +2.4% |
| 2006 | 1,060 ha | -8.9% |
| 2007 | 1,080 ha | +1.9% |
| 2008 | 1,080 ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 1,117 ha | +3.4% |
| 2010 | 1,418 ha | +26.9% |
| 2011 | 1,564 ha | +10.3% |
| 2012 | 1,886 ha | +20.6% |
| 2013 | 2,150 ha | +14.0% |
| 2014 | 2,331 ha | +8.4% |
| 2015 | 3,724 ha | +59.8% |
| 2016 | 2,363 ha | -36.5% |
| 2017 | 1,979 ha | -16.3% |
| 2018 | 1,669 ha | -15.7% |
| 2019 | 553 ha | -66.9% |
| 2020 | 613 ha | +10.8% |
| 2021 | 566 ha | -7.7% |
| 2022 | 558 ha | -1.4% |
| 2023 | 581 ha | +4.1% |
| 2024 | 530 ha | -8.8% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Yams — Area harvested in Polynesia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | -66.9% | 1,669 ha | 553 ha |
| 2015 | +59.8% | 2,331 ha | 3,724 ha |
| 1991 | -36.6% | 1,501 ha | 951 ha |
| 2016 | -36.5% | 3,724 ha | 2,363 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,375 ha | 2,350 ha | 2,412 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,453 ha | 2,370 ha | 2,540 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,894 ha | 1,565 ha | 2,270 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,047 ha | 854 ha | 1,501 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,081 ha | 965 ha | 1,163 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,964 ha | 553 ha | 3,724 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 569.6 ha | 530 ha | 613 ha | 5 |
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- 6 Cameroon 80,505 ha compare
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- 8 United Republic of Tanzania 1,513 ha compare
- 9 Guinea 39,033 ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — area harvested in Polynesia?
- Yams — area harvested in Polynesia was 530 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — area harvested recorded in Polynesia?
- The highest recorded value was 3,724 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest yams — area harvested recorded in Polynesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 530 ha in 2024.
- How does Polynesia rank for yams — area harvested?
- Polynesia ranks 9th out of 9 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — area harvested rising or falling in Polynesia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 77.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Polynesia 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.