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.
Polynesia ranks 43rd of 67 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
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 |
Countries ranked near Polynesia
- 40 Kenya 1,392 ha compare
- 41 Costa Rica 1,263 ha compare
- 42 Dominica 938 ha compare
- 44 Mauritania 485 ha compare
- 45 Puerto Rico 413 ha compare
- 46 Malaysia 396 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Polynesia
- Cabbages — Yield 13,722 kg/ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 49 ha (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 120,918 An (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production 309.97 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 252.32 t (2024)
- Cabbages — Production 578.07 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 3,676 ha (2024)
- Vegetables Primary — Yield 4,002 kg/ha (2024)
- Vegetables Primary — Production 35,456 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 1,684 t (2024)
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 43rd out of 67 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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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.