Yams — Yield in Barbados
Barbados: Yams — Yield was 12,397 kg/ha in 2024. ▬ Flat
Yams — Yield in Barbados, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for yams — yield in Barbados is 12,397 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 3.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Barbados peaked at 18,100 kg/ha in 1981 and was at its lowest, 7,583 kg/ha, in 1988.
That places Barbados 21st out of 67 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11,972 kg/ha | 10,004 kg/ha | 13,811 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 12,051 kg/ha | 10,075 kg/ha | 12,547 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 12,180 kg/ha | 7,583 kg/ha | 18,100 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,578 kg/ha | 8,973 kg/ha | 13,125 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 12,422 kg/ha | 10,397 kg/ha | 13,529 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 12,176 kg/ha | 11,613 kg/ha | 12,799 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 12,440 kg/ha | 12,382 kg/ha | 12,538 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Barbados
- 18 Costa Rica 13,094 kg/ha compare
- 19 Burundi 12,938 kg/ha compare
- 20 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 12,426 kg/ha compare
- 22 Guadeloupe 12,000 kg/ha compare
- 23 Colombia 11,644 kg/ha compare
- 24 Burkina Faso 11,229 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Barbados
- Agriculture share gdp 1.55 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.55 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2024)
- Rural population 40.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.3% (2025)
- Rural population 113,898 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.6% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 118.12 million current US$ (2024)
- Bananas — Production 981.37 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Barbados?
- Yams — yield in Barbados was 12,397 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Barbados?
- The highest recorded value was 18,100 kg/ha in 1981.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Barbados?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,583 kg/ha in 1988.
- How does Barbados rank for yams — yield?
- Barbados ranks 21st out of 67 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Barbados?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Barbados 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.