Yams — Yield in Cameroon
Cameroon: Yams — Yield was 6,728 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in Cameroon, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, yams — yield in Cameroon stood at 6,728 kg/ha.
The figure is down 4.1% on the previous year and down 39.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Cameroon peaked at 12,120 kg/ha in 2009 and was at its lowest, 2,961 kg/ha, in 1988.
That places Cameroon 42nd 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 | 3,919 kg/ha | 3,436 kg/ha | 4,182 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,427 kg/ha | 3,611 kg/ha | 5,650 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,822 kg/ha | 2,961 kg/ha | 5,266 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,732 kg/ha | 3,931 kg/ha | 9,321 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,798 kg/ha | 7,660 kg/ha | 12,120 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,842 kg/ha | 7,207 kg/ha | 11,264 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 7,174 kg/ha | 6,728 kg/ha | 7,437 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Cameroon
- Agriculture share gdp 16.85 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.85 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
- Rural population 44.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.0% (2025)
- Rural population 13.25 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.8% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.93 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 805,353 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Cameroon?
- Yams — yield in Cameroon was 6,728 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 12,120 kg/ha in 2009.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,961 kg/ha in 1988.
- How does Cameroon rank for yams — yield?
- Cameroon ranks 42nd out of 67 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is down 39.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cameroon 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.