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
67
Highest
43,937 kg/ha
Guyana
Lowest
0 kg/ha
Trinidad and Tobago
Median
8,917 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,922

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 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
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.

About this data

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
Last refreshed

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.