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...

Countries reporting
68
Highest
43,937 kg/ha
Guyana
Lowest
0 kg/ha
Trinidad and Tobago
Median
8,876 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,922

What the numbers show

Yams — Yield is currently reported for 68 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 8,876 kg/ha, and the mean is 9,902 kg/ha.

Over the past decade 42 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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Guyana 43,937 kg/ha 2024 down 25.8% volatile
2 Japan 25,231 kg/ha 2024 up 11.1% rising
2 Melanesia 15,303 kg/ha 2024 up 0.5% rising
3 India 25,051 kg/ha 2024 down 43.6% falling
4 Fiji 20,000 kg/ha 2024 up 38.8% volatile
4 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 10,590 kg/ha 2024 up 14.2% rising
5 Ghana 18,849 kg/ha 2024 up 13.3% rising
6 Senegal 18,734 kg/ha 2024 down 10.8% falling
6 Polynesia 9,318 kg/ha 2024 up 80.2% 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
8 United Republic of Tanzania 6,195 kg/ha 2024 down 5.1% falling
9 Mali 17,520 kg/ha 2024 down 0.5% volatile
9 Caribbean 10,590 kg/ha 2024 up 27.1% rising
9 Democratic Republic of the Congo 4,632 kg/ha 2024 up 6.7% falling
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 Dominica 14,953 kg/ha 2024 down 0.0% rising
14 Grenada 14,127 kg/ha 2024 up 571.5% volatile
15 Nicaragua 13,388 kg/ha 2023 up 0.4% flat
16 Tonga 13,282 kg/ha 2024 up 0.2% flat
17 Costa Rica 13,094 kg/ha 2024 down 12.7% falling
17 Côte d'Ivoire 5,113 kg/ha 2024 down 19.5% falling
18 Burundi 12,938 kg/ha 2024 up 37.8% rising
19 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 12,426 kg/ha 2024 down 2.8% rising
20 Barbados 12,397 kg/ha 2024 up 3.6% flat
21 Guadeloupe 12,000 kg/ha 2006 up 48.1% falling
22 Colombia 11,644 kg/ha 2024 up 11.4% rising
23 Burkina Faso 11,229 kg/ha 2024 up 71.8% rising
24 Solomon Islands 10,159 kg/ha 2024 down 1.2% rising
25 Brazil 9,791 kg/ha 2024 up 1.9% rising
26 Chad 9,600 kg/ha 1990 up 16.4% rising
27 Martinique 9,000 kg/ha 2006 up 1.2% falling
28 Togo 8,976 kg/ha 2024 up 14.9% flat
29 Ethiopia 8,953 kg/ha 2024 up 231.6% rising
30 Rwanda 8,917 kg/ha 2024 up 0.1% flat
31 Kenya 8,835 kg/ha 2024 down 46.6% rising
32 Liberia 8,698 kg/ha 2024 up 0.8% falling
33 Guinea 8,354 kg/ha 2024 up 3.5% rising
34 Dominican Republic 8,337 kg/ha 2024 up 29.5% falling
35 Nigeria 8,149 kg/ha 2024 down 0.6% rising
36 Panama 7,099 kg/ha 2024 up 35.1% falling
37 Malaysia 6,777 kg/ha 2024 — rising
38 Cameroon 6,728 kg/ha 2024 down 39.9% rising
39 Central African Republic 6,518 kg/ha 2024 up 0.6% rising
40 Mauritania 6,259 kg/ha 2024 up 0.2% flat
41 Gabon 6,205 kg/ha 2024 up 0.9% rising
42 Puerto Rico 5,952 kg/ha 2024 down 28.1% rising
43 Sao Tome and Principe 5,806 kg/ha 2024 up 0.4% rising
44 Comoros 5,589 kg/ha 2024 up 2.3% rising
45 Saint Kitts and Nevis 5,528 kg/ha 2024 down 44.7% rising
46 Congo 4,764 kg/ha 2024 up 3.7% rising
47 Philippines 4,687 kg/ha 2024 down 19.6% rising
48 Haiti 4,491 kg/ha 2024 down 41.9% rising
49 Belize 4,400 kg/ha 2024 down 62.3% volatile
50 Ethiopia PDR 4,094 kg/ha 1992 down 5.7% flat
51 Cuba 3,587 kg/ha 2024 down 37.1% volatile
52 Bhutan 3,386 kg/ha 2024 up 9.0% rising
53 Antigua and Barbuda 3,314 kg/ha 2024 up 2.6% falling
54 Samoa 2,898 kg/ha 2024 down 25.8% volatile
55 South Sudan 2,473 kg/ha 2024 up 0.3% flat
56 Sudan (former) 2,395 kg/ha 2011 down 0.3% falling
57 French Polynesia 2,256 kg/ha 2024 down 4.3% flat
58 Sudan 2,085 kg/ha 2024 up 1.1% flat
59 Niue 1,154 kg/ha 2024 up 4.6% volatile
60 New Caledonia 763.1 kg/ha 2024 down 30.0% volatile
61 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.

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Indicator
Yams — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
90 places, 4,922 data points, 1961–2024
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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.