Yams — Area harvested in Senegal
Senegal: Yams — Area harvested was 7,822 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Area harvested in Senegal, 2014–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, yams — area harvested in Senegal stood at 7,822 ha. That is the highest value across all 11 years on record.
That represents a change of up 3.4% on the previous year and up 479.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — area harvested in Senegal peaked at 7,822 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,350 ha, in 2014.
That places Senegal 22nd out of 67 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 11 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 3,113 ha | 1,350 ha | 4,310 ha | 6 |
| 2020s | 6,693 ha | 5,760 ha | 7,822 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Senegal
- 19 Papua New Guinea 21,947 ha compare
- 20 South Sudan 21,922 ha compare
- 21 Jamaica 10,772 ha compare
- 23 Mali 6,630 ha compare
- 24 Japan 6,566 ha compare
- 25 Dominican Republic 6,539 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Senegal
- Agriculture share gdp 17.08 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 17.08 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
- Rural population 44.2% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.1% (2025)
- Rural population 8.37 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 17.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.32 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 38,625 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — area harvested in Senegal?
- Yams — area harvested in Senegal was 7,822 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — area harvested recorded in Senegal?
- The highest recorded value was 7,822 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest yams — area harvested recorded in Senegal?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,350 ha in 2014.
- How does Senegal rank for yams — area harvested?
- Senegal ranks 22nd out of 67 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — area harvested rising or falling in Senegal?
- Over the last ten years it is up 479.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Senegal 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.