Yams — Yield in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso: Yams — Yield was 11,229 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in Burkina Faso, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Burkina Faso recorded 11,229 kg/ha for yams — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 15.3% on the previous year and up 71.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Burkina Faso peaked at 15,768 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 1,148 kg/ha, in 1992.
That places Burkina Faso 24th out of 67 countries 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,879 kg/ha | 2,518 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,418 kg/ha | 5,833 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,243 kg/ha | 7,337 kg/ha | 10,720 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,957 kg/ha | 1,148 kg/ha | 7,380 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,222 kg/ha | 6,520 kg/ha | 12,009 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,565 kg/ha | 3,683 kg/ha | 9,078 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 12,081 kg/ha | 8,478 kg/ha | 15,768 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Burkina Faso
- 21 Barbados 12,397 kg/ha compare
- 22 Guadeloupe 12,000 kg/ha compare
- 23 Colombia 11,644 kg/ha compare
- 25 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 10,590 kg/ha compare
- 27 Solomon Islands 10,159 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Burkina Faso
- Agriculture share gdp 19.94 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 19.94 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 6.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2024)
- Rural population 71.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.4% (2025)
- Rural population 17.11 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 19.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.51 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 46,922 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Burkina Faso?
- Yams — yield in Burkina Faso was 11,229 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Burkina Faso?
- The highest recorded value was 15,768 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Burkina Faso?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,148 kg/ha in 1992.
- How does Burkina Faso rank for yams — yield?
- Burkina Faso ranks 24th out of 67 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Burkina Faso?
- Over the last ten years it is up 71.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Burkina Faso 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.