Yams — Yield in Asia
Asia: Yams — Yield was 23,729 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in Asia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for yams — yield in Asia is 23,729 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 1.7% on the previous year and down 12.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Asia peaked at 26,978 kg/ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 7,954 kg/ha, in 1962.
That places Asia 3rd out of 23 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,356 kg/ha | 7,954 kg/ha | 11,279 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,766 kg/ha | 10,663 kg/ha | 12,781 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 11,396 kg/ha | 9,467 kg/ha | 13,263 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 14,197 kg/ha | 11,521 kg/ha | 15,704 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 15,243 kg/ha | 14,076 kg/ha | 15,972 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 21,635 kg/ha | 15,770 kg/ha | 26,978 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 23,117 kg/ha | 22,094 kg/ha | 24,149 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Asia
More agriculture & rural data for Asia
- Tomatoes — Production 113.95 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Production 73.05 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 2.10 million ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 4.18 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 2.08 million ha (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 531.98 million An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 866.88 million An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 68.35 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 79 kg/An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 2.65 million ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Asia?
- Yams — yield in Asia was 23,729 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 26,978 kg/ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,954 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Asia rank for yams — yield?
- Asia ranks 3rd out of 23 groups with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 12.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Asia 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.