Yams — Production by country
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...
What the numbers show
Yams — Production is currently reported for 68 countries. The highest value is 65.32 million t in Nigeria; the lowest is 0 t in Trinidad and Tobago.
The median across all reporting countries is 21,358 t, and the mean is 1.38 million t.
Over the past decade 40 countries rose and 25 fell. The largest increase was in Senegal (up 416.9%), and the largest decrease in Trinidad and Tobago (down 100.0%).
Yams — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nigeria | 65.32 million t | 2024 | up 49.4% | volatile |
| 2 | Ghana | 10.11 million t | 2024 | up 42.1% | volatile |
| 3 | Benin | 3.35 million t | 2024 | up 4.1% | volatile |
| 4 | Togo | 982,384 t | 2024 | up 24.9% | rising |
| 5 | Côte d'Ivoire | 7.66 million t | 2024 | up 23.6% | volatile |
| 5 | India | 977,000 t | 2024 | up 340.1% | rising |
| 5 | Melanesia | 479,958 t | 2024 | up 17.7% | rising |
| 6 | Cameroon | 541,648 t | 2024 | down 6.6% | volatile |
| 6 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 127,840 t | 2024 | up 27.3% | falling |
| 7 | Colombia | 408,944 t | 2024 | up 33.0% | volatile |
| 7 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 55,772 t | 2024 | up 10.7% | rising |
| 8 | Papua New Guinea | 385,041 t | 2024 | up 8.4% | rising |
| 8 | United Republic of Tanzania | 9,375 t | 2024 | down 6.4% | rising |
| 9 | Guinea | 326,092 t | 2024 | up 226.1% | volatile |
| 9 | Polynesia | 4,940 t | 2024 | down 59.0% | volatile |
| 10 | Ethiopia PDR | 262,000 t | 1992 | down 6.4% | rising |
| 11 | Brazil | 256,678 t | 2024 | up 3.9% | rising |
| 12 | Caribbean | 304,309 t | 2024 | down 57.7% | rising |
| 12 | Chad | 240,000 t | 1990 | up 45.5% | rising |
| 13 | Gabon | 229,932 t | 2024 | up 7.4% | volatile |
| 14 | Central African Republic | 227,415 t | 2024 | up 2.7% | rising |
| 15 | Jamaica | 191,667 t | 2024 | up 41.7% | rising |
| 16 | Sudan | 173,485 t | 2024 | up 5.1% | rising |
| 17 | Japan | 165,669 t | 2024 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 18 | Senegal | 146,536 t | 2024 | up 416.9% | rising |
| 19 | Sudan (former) | 141,153 t | 2011 | up 3.0% | rising |
| 20 | Mali | 116,158 t | 2024 | up 24.5% | volatile |
| 21 | Burkina Faso | 64,047 t | 2024 | up 45.7% | rising |
| 22 | Rwanda | 57,419 t | 2024 | up 4.9% | volatile |
| 23 | Dominican Republic | 54,514 t | 2024 | up 116.5% | rising |
| 24 | South Sudan | 54,216 t | 2024 | up 6.3% | rising |
| 25 | Ethiopia | 45,301 t | 2024 | up 279.0% | rising |
| 26 | Solomon Islands | 45,058 t | 2024 | up 0.0% | rising |
| 27 | Comoros | 30,988 t | 2024 | up 25.1% | volatile |
| 28 | Panama | 28,675 t | 2024 | up 50.3% | rising |
| 29 | Haiti | 21,832 t | 2024 | down 95.4% | volatile |
| 30 | Liberia | 20,885 t | 2024 | down 3.0% | rising |
| 31 | Cuba | 18,083 t | 2024 | down 71.4% | volatile |
| 32 | Costa Rica | 16,541 t | 2024 | down 44.7% | rising |
| 33 | Congo | 15,971 t | 2024 | up 4.5% | volatile |
| 34 | Dominica | 14,022 t | 2024 | up 7.8% | volatile |
| 35 | Philippines | 13,382 t | 2024 | down 12.2% | falling |
| 36 | Kenya | 12,298 t | 2024 | down 38.6% | rising |
| 37 | Fiji | 5,822 t | 2024 | up 6.4% | volatile |
| 38 | Tonga | 4,678 t | 2024 | down 1.7% | volatile |
| 39 | Mauritania | 3,033 t | 2024 | up 2.2% | rising |
| 40 | Guadeloupe | 3,000 t | 2006 | down 51.6% | volatile |
| 41 | Malaysia | 2,682 t | 2024 | — | falling |
| 42 | Puerto Rico | 2,459 t | 2024 | up 93.2% | volatile |
| 43 | Portugal | 2,328 t | 2017 | down 12.2% | flat |
| 44 | Sao Tome and Principe | 2,274 t | 2024 | up 9.0% | volatile |
| 45 | New Caledonia | 1,977 t | 2024 | up 3.7% | volatile |
| 46 | Martinique | 1,800 t | 2006 | down 55.0% | volatile |
| 47 | Guyana | 1,779 t | 2024 | up 46.0% | volatile |
| 48 | Nicaragua | 1,000 t | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 49 | Burundi | 944.62 t | 2024 | down 81.5% | flat |
| 50 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 671 t | 2024 | down 76.8% | falling |
| 51 | Barbados | 331.93 t | 2024 | down 41.5% | volatile |
| 52 | Saint Lucia | 300.85 t | 2024 | down 43.6% | volatile |
| 53 | Grenada | 250.84 t | 2024 | — | falling |
| 54 | Niue | 164.47 t | 2024 | up 3.1% | rising |
| 55 | Antigua and Barbuda | 146.45 t | 2024 | up 11.0% | volatile |
| 56 | Samoa | 77.64 t | 2024 | down 98.9% | volatile |
| 57 | Bhutan | 56.44 t | 2024 | down 39.3% | flat |
| 58 | Belize | 44 t | 2024 | down 57.7% | volatile |
| 59 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 31.35 t | 2024 | down 47.8% | volatile |
| 60 | French Polynesia | 19.33 t | 2024 | down 41.4% | volatile |
| 61 | Trinidad and Tobago | 0 t | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 92.44 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 5.90 million t
- Africa 89.73 million t
- Asia 1.16 million t
- Western Africa 88.20 million t
- Middle Africa 1.15 million t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 14.14 million t
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 824,291 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 6.42 million t
- Americas 1.07 million t
- Southern Asia 977,056 t
- South America 723,173 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 565,556 t
- Oceania 484,898 t
- Eastern Africa 210,541 t
- Northern Africa 173,485 t
- Eastern Asia 165,669 t
- Central America 46,259 t
- South-Eastern Asia 16,064 t
- Europe 2,328 t
- European Union (27) 2,328 t
- Southern Europe 2,328 t
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.