Yams — Yield in Benin
Benin: Yams — Yield was 16,021 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in Benin, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for yams — yield in Benin is 16,021 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 48.5% on the previous year and up 6.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Benin peaked at 16,021 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 7,391 kg/ha, in 1983.
That places Benin 11th out of 67 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,146 kg/ha | 8,463 kg/ha | 10,223 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 9,943 kg/ha | 8,568 kg/ha | 11,402 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,723 kg/ha | 7,391 kg/ha | 11,344 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 10,909 kg/ha | 10,297 kg/ha | 11,397 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 12,123 kg/ha | 10,886 kg/ha | 14,137 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 14,173 kg/ha | 13,042 kg/ha | 15,046 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 13,230 kg/ha | 10,788 kg/ha | 16,021 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Benin
- Agriculture share gdp 22.92 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 22.92 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 52.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2024)
- Rural population 46.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 6.91 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 22.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.63 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 20,973 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Benin?
- Yams — yield in Benin was 16,021 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Benin?
- The highest recorded value was 16,021 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Benin?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,391 kg/ha in 1983.
- How does Benin rank for yams — yield?
- Benin ranks 11th out of 67 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Benin?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Benin 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.