Yams — Area harvested in Samoa
Samoa: Yams — Area harvested was 27 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Yams — Area harvested in Samoa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for yams — area harvested in Samoa is 27 ha, measured in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is down 67.9% on the previous year and down 98.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — area harvested in Samoa peaked at 3,237 ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 27 ha, in 2024.
Samoa ranks 59th of 67 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 56 ha | 40 ha | 63 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 67.4 ha | 63 ha | 70 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 138.5 ha | 70 ha | 245 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 381.3 ha | 243 ha | 530 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 595.1 ha | 538 ha | 674 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,463 ha | 61 ha | 3,237 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 58.2 ha | 27 ha | 84 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Samoa
- 56 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 54 ha compare
- 57 Antigua and Barbuda 44 ha compare
- 58 Guyana 40 ha compare
- 59 Barbados 27 ha compare
- 61 Saint Lucia 20 ha compare
- 62 Grenada 18 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Samoa
- Agriculture share gdp 9.09 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.09 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.3% (2024)
- Rural population 82.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.6% (2025)
- Rural population 180,913 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 117.07 million current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 21,853 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — area harvested in Samoa?
- Yams — area harvested in Samoa was 27 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — area harvested recorded in Samoa?
- The highest recorded value was 3,237 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest yams — area harvested recorded in Samoa?
- The lowest recorded value was 27 ha in 2024.
- How does Samoa rank for yams — area harvested?
- Samoa ranks 59th out of 67 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — area harvested rising or falling in Samoa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 98.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Samoa 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.