Yams — Yield in Burundi
Burundi: Yams — Yield was 12,938 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in Burundi, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for yams — yield in Burundi is 12,938 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 2.6% on the previous year and up 37.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Burundi peaked at 12,938 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 5,000 kg/ha, in 1979.
Burundi ranks 18th of 61 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.
Yams — Yield in Burundi, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,700 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,700 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 5,700 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 5,700 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 5,700 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 5,700 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 5,700 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 5,700 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 5,700 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 5,273 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 1971 | 5,364 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1972 | 5,300 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1973 | 5,454 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1974 | 5,333 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1975 | 5,546 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1976 | 5,454 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1977 | 5,454 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 5,556 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1979 | 5,000 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 1980 | 5,556 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1981 | 5,454 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1982 | 5,454 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 5,454 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 5,454 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 5,833 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1986 | 5,833 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 5,462 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 1988 | 5,615 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1989 | 5,769 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1990 | 5,758 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1991 | 5,571 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1992 | 5,552 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1993 | 5,558 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1994 | 5,577 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1995 | 5,599 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1996 | 5,630 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1997 | 5,623 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1998 | 5,667 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1999 | 5,801 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2000 | 6,018 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2001 | 5,838 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2002 | 5,838 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 6,151 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2004 | 6,330 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2005 | 6,512 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2006 | 6,754 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2007 | 7,436 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 2008 | 7,723 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2009 | 8,028 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2010 | 8,304 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2011 | 8,582 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2012 | 9,026 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 2013 | 9,127 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2014 | 9,387 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2015 | 9,714 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2016 | 10,241 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2017 | 11,959 kg/ha | +16.8% |
| 2018 | 10,570 kg/ha | -11.6% |
| 2019 | 11,177 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 2020 | 11,406 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2021 | 11,903 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 2022 | 12,284 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2023 | 12,611 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2024 | 12,938 kg/ha | +2.6% |
Burundi compared with similar countries
- Burundi's 12,938 kg/ha is above the median for low income countries, which is 8,935 kg/ha, 1.4× the median. (10 countries reporting)
- Burundi's 12,938 kg/ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 8,698 kg/ha, 1.5× the median. (23 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,700 kg/ha | 5,700 kg/ha | 5,700 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,373 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 5,556 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,589 kg/ha | 5,454 kg/ha | 5,833 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,634 kg/ha | 5,552 kg/ha | 5,801 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,663 kg/ha | 5,838 kg/ha | 8,028 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,809 kg/ha | 8,304 kg/ha | 11,959 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 12,228 kg/ha | 11,406 kg/ha | 12,938 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Burundi
- 15 Nicaragua 13,388 kg/ha compare
- 16 Tonga 13,282 kg/ha compare
- 17 Costa Rica 13,094 kg/ha compare
- 17 Côte d'Ivoire 5,113 kg/ha compare
- 19 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 12,426 kg/ha compare
- 20 Barbados 12,397 kg/ha compare
- 21 Guadeloupe 12,000 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Burundi
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 8.36 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3429 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 80.18 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.27 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0032 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7431 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 34.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 34.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.5% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Burundi?
- Yams — yield in Burundi was 12,938 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Burundi?
- The highest recorded value was 12,938 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Burundi?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,000 kg/ha in 1979.
- How does Burundi rank for yams — yield?
- Burundi ranks 18th out of 61 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Burundi?
- Over the last ten years it is up 37.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Burundi 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.