Yams — Yield 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 — Yield is currently reported for 67 countries. The highest value is 43,937 kg/ha in Guyana; the lowest is 0 kg/ha in Trinidad and Tobago.
The median across all reporting countries is 8,917 kg/ha, and the mean is 9,952 kg/ha.
Over the past decade 41 countries rose and 25 fell. The largest increase was in Grenada (up 571.5%), and the largest decrease in Trinidad and Tobago (down 100.0%).
Yams — Yield: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guyana | 43,937 kg/ha | 2024 | down 25.8% | volatile |
| 2 | Japan | 25,231 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 3 | India | 25,051 kg/ha | 2024 | down 43.6% | falling |
| 4 | Fiji | 20,000 kg/ha | 2024 | up 38.8% | volatile |
| 5 | Ghana | 18,849 kg/ha | 2024 | up 13.3% | rising |
| 6 | Senegal | 18,734 kg/ha | 2024 | down 10.8% | falling |
| 7 | Jamaica | 17,793 kg/ha | 2024 | up 6.3% | rising |
| 8 | Papua New Guinea | 17,544 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.0% | rising |
| 9 | Mali | 17,520 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.5% | volatile |
| 10 | Portugal | 17,138 kg/ha | 2017 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 11 | Benin | 16,021 kg/ha | 2024 | up 6.5% | rising |
| 12 | Saint Lucia | 15,317 kg/ha | 2024 | up 187.1% | volatile |
| 13 | Melanesia | 15,303 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 14 | Dominica | 14,953 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.0% | rising |
| 15 | Grenada | 14,127 kg/ha | 2024 | up 571.5% | volatile |
| 16 | Nicaragua | 13,388 kg/ha | 2023 | up 0.4% | flat |
| 17 | Tonga | 13,282 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 18 | Costa Rica | 13,094 kg/ha | 2024 | down 12.7% | falling |
| 19 | Burundi | 12,938 kg/ha | 2024 | up 37.8% | rising |
| 20 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 12,426 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.8% | rising |
| 21 | Barbados | 12,397 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.6% | flat |
| 22 | Guadeloupe | 12,000 kg/ha | 2006 | up 48.1% | falling |
| 23 | Colombia | 11,644 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.4% | rising |
| 24 | Burkina Faso | 11,229 kg/ha | 2024 | up 71.8% | rising |
| 25 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 10,590 kg/ha | 2024 | up 14.2% | rising |
| 25 | Caribbean | 10,590 kg/ha | 2024 | up 27.1% | rising |
| 27 | Solomon Islands | 10,159 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.2% | rising |
| 28 | Brazil | 9,791 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.9% | rising |
| 29 | Chad | 9,600 kg/ha | 1990 | up 16.4% | rising |
| 30 | Polynesia | 9,318 kg/ha | 2024 | up 80.2% | falling |
| 31 | Martinique | 9,000 kg/ha | 2006 | up 1.2% | falling |
| 32 | Togo | 8,976 kg/ha | 2024 | up 14.9% | flat |
| 33 | Ethiopia | 8,953 kg/ha | 2024 | up 231.6% | rising |
| 34 | Rwanda | 8,917 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 35 | Kenya | 8,835 kg/ha | 2024 | down 46.6% | rising |
| 36 | Liberia | 8,698 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.8% | falling |
| 37 | Guinea | 8,354 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 38 | Dominican Republic | 8,337 kg/ha | 2024 | up 29.5% | falling |
| 39 | Nigeria | 8,149 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.6% | rising |
| 40 | Panama | 7,099 kg/ha | 2024 | up 35.1% | falling |
| 41 | Malaysia | 6,777 kg/ha | 2024 | — | rising |
| 42 | Cameroon | 6,728 kg/ha | 2024 | down 39.9% | rising |
| 43 | Mauritania | 6,259 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 44 | Gabon | 6,205 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.9% | rising |
| 45 | United Republic of Tanzania | 6,195 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.1% | falling |
| 46 | Puerto Rico | 5,952 kg/ha | 2024 | down 28.1% | rising |
| 47 | Sao Tome and Principe | 5,806 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.4% | rising |
| 48 | Comoros | 5,589 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.3% | rising |
| 49 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 5,528 kg/ha | 2024 | down 44.7% | rising |
| 50 | Côte d'Ivoire | 5,113 kg/ha | 2024 | down 19.5% | falling |
| 51 | Congo | 4,764 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.7% | rising |
| 52 | Philippines | 4,687 kg/ha | 2024 | down 19.6% | rising |
| 53 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 4,632 kg/ha | 2024 | up 6.7% | falling |
| 54 | Haiti | 4,491 kg/ha | 2024 | down 41.9% | rising |
| 55 | Belize | 4,400 kg/ha | 2024 | down 62.3% | volatile |
| 56 | Ethiopia PDR | 4,094 kg/ha | 1992 | down 5.7% | flat |
| 57 | Cuba | 3,587 kg/ha | 2024 | down 37.1% | volatile |
| 58 | Bhutan | 3,386 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.0% | rising |
| 59 | Antigua and Barbuda | 3,314 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.6% | falling |
| 60 | Samoa | 2,898 kg/ha | 2024 | down 25.8% | volatile |
| 61 | South Sudan | 2,473 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 62 | Sudan (former) | 2,395 kg/ha | 2011 | down 0.3% | falling |
| 63 | French Polynesia | 2,256 kg/ha | 2024 | down 4.3% | flat |
| 64 | Sudan | 2,085 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.1% | flat |
| 65 | Niue | 1,154 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.6% | volatile |
| 66 | New Caledonia | 763.1 kg/ha | 2024 | down 30.0% | volatile |
| 67 | Trinidad and Tobago | 0 kg/ha | 2024 | down 100.0% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Eastern Asia 25,231 kg/ha
- Southern Asia 25,042 kg/ha
- Asia 23,729 kg/ha
- Southern Europe 17,138 kg/ha
- Europe 17,138 kg/ha
- European Union (27) 17,138 kg/ha
- Oceania 15,203 kg/ha
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 12,374 kg/ha
- South America 10,852 kg/ha
- Americas 10,656 kg/ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 9,884 kg/ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 9,480 kg/ha
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.