Yams — Yield in Brazil
Brazil: Yams — Yield was 9,791 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in Brazil, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, yams — yield in Brazil stood at 9,791 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Brazil peaked at 9,791 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 8,947 kg/ha, in 1961.
Brazil ranks 28th of 67 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,031 kg/ha | 8,947 kg/ha | 9,091 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 9,037 kg/ha | 9,000 kg/ha | 9,091 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,133 kg/ha | 8,976 kg/ha | 9,546 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,158 kg/ha | 9,123 kg/ha | 9,200 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,241 kg/ha | 9,038 kg/ha | 9,443 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,658 kg/ha | 9,500 kg/ha | 9,762 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9,766 kg/ha | 9,734 kg/ha | 9,791 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Brazil
- 25 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 10,590 kg/ha compare
- 25 Caribbean 10,590 kg/ha compare
- 27 Solomon Islands 10,159 kg/ha compare
- 29 Chad 9,600 kg/ha compare
- 30 Polynesia 9,318 kg/ha compare
- 31 Martinique 9,000 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Brazil
- Agriculture share gdp 6.09 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.09 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2025)
- Rural population 11.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth -2.0% (2025)
- Rural population 25.16 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 138.76 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 7.05 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Brazil?
- Yams — yield in Brazil was 9,791 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Brazil?
- The highest recorded value was 9,791 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Brazil?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,947 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Brazil rank for yams — yield?
- Brazil ranks 28th out of 67 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Brazil?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Brazil 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.