Yams — Yield in Americas
Americas: Yams — Yield was 10,656 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in Americas, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Americas recorded 10,656 kg/ha for yams — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 1.1% on the previous year and up 18.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Americas peaked at 10,656 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 5,816 kg/ha, in 1994.
That places Americas 8th out of 20 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Yams — Yield in Americas, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 7,244 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1963 | 7,183 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1964 | 7,255 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1965 | 7,154 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1966 | 7,257 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1967 | 7,165 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1968 | 7,345 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1969 | 7,274 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1970 | 7,322 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1971 | 7,371 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1972 | 7,338 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1973 | 7,454 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1974 | 7,366 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1975 | 7,563 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1976 | 7,432 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1977 | 7,615 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1978 | 7,754 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1979 | 7,361 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1980 | 7,392 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1981 | 6,955 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 1982 | 6,583 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1983 | 6,652 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1984 | 6,849 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1985 | 7,028 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1986 | 7,085 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1987 | 7,607 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 1988 | 7,519 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1989 | 6,956 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 1990 | 7,334 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1991 | 7,691 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1992 | 7,409 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1993 | 6,983 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 1994 | 5,816 kg/ha | -16.7% |
| 1995 | 7,424 kg/ha | +27.7% |
| 1996 | 7,333 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1997 | 7,866 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1998 | 7,959 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1999 | 8,956 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 2000 | 9,068 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2001 | 9,376 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2002 | 9,312 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2003 | 9,299 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2004 | 9,130 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2005 | 8,350 kg/ha | -8.5% |
| 2006 | 8,038 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 2007 | 7,383 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 2008 | 7,455 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2009 | 7,510 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2010 | 8,365 kg/ha | +11.4% |
| 2011 | 8,808 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2012 | 8,564 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2013 | 8,131 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 2014 | 9,014 kg/ha | +10.9% |
| 2015 | 9,225 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2016 | 9,745 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2017 | 9,896 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2018 | 9,836 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2019 | 10,241 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2020 | 8,977 kg/ha | -12.3% |
| 2021 | 9,458 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2022 | 10,621 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 2023 | 10,540 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2024 | 10,656 kg/ha | +1.1% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Yams — Yield in Americas changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | +27.7% | 5,816 kg/ha | 7,424 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,209 kg/ha | 7,000 kg/ha | 7,345 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,458 kg/ha | 7,322 kg/ha | 7,754 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,063 kg/ha | 6,583 kg/ha | 7,607 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,477 kg/ha | 5,816 kg/ha | 8,956 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,492 kg/ha | 7,383 kg/ha | 9,376 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,183 kg/ha | 8,131 kg/ha | 10,241 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,050 kg/ha | 8,977 kg/ha | 10,656 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Americas
- 5 Ghana 18,849 kg/ha compare
- 6 Senegal 18,734 kg/ha compare
- 6 Polynesia 9,318 kg/ha compare
- 7 Jamaica 17,793 kg/ha compare
- 8 Papua New Guinea 17,544 kg/ha compare
- 8 United Republic of Tanzania 6,195 kg/ha compare
- 9 Democratic Republic of the Congo 4,632 kg/ha compare
- 9 Mali 17,520 kg/ha compare
- 9 Caribbean 10,590 kg/ha compare
- 10 Portugal 17,138 kg/ha compare
- 11 Benin 16,021 kg/ha compare
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- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.12 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 1.04 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.24 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.65 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 0.7578 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cabbages — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 0.7575 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 3.54 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) -1.67 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Americas?
- Yams — yield in Americas was 10,656 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 10,656 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,816 kg/ha in 1994.
- How does Americas rank for yams — yield?
- Americas ranks 8th out of 20 groups with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is up 18.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Americas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Yams — Yield. 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.