Yams — Yield in Caribbean
Caribbean: Yams — Yield was 10,590 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in Caribbean, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, yams — yield in Caribbean stood at 10,590 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.2% on the previous year and up 27.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Caribbean peaked at 10,892 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 4,462 kg/ha, in 1994.
Caribbean ranks 9th of 20 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 Caribbean, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,418 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,572 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1963 | 6,660 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1964 | 6,692 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1965 | 6,392 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1966 | 6,505 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1967 | 6,300 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1968 | 6,523 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1969 | 6,527 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1970 | 6,695 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1971 | 7,102 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1972 | 6,983 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1973 | 6,967 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1974 | 7,020 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1975 | 6,931 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1976 | 6,687 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1977 | 6,289 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1978 | 6,423 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1979 | 6,094 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1980 | 5,872 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1981 | 5,842 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1982 | 5,600 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1983 | 5,692 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1984 | 5,911 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1985 | 6,146 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1986 | 6,523 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1987 | 6,740 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1988 | 7,058 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1989 | 6,823 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1990 | 7,127 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1991 | 7,534 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1992 | 6,730 kg/ha | -10.7% |
| 1993 | 5,992 kg/ha | -11.0% |
| 1994 | 4,462 kg/ha | -25.5% |
| 1995 | 6,211 kg/ha | +39.2% |
| 1996 | 6,073 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1997 | 7,100 kg/ha | +16.9% |
| 1998 | 6,795 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1999 | 8,177 kg/ha | +20.3% |
| 2000 | 8,104 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2001 | 8,595 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 2002 | 8,570 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2003 | 8,667 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2004 | 8,244 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 2005 | 7,087 kg/ha | -14.0% |
| 2006 | 6,494 kg/ha | -8.4% |
| 2007 | 5,841 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 2008 | 6,013 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2009 | 6,231 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2010 | 7,310 kg/ha | +17.3% |
| 2011 | 7,882 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 2012 | 7,637 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2013 | 7,124 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 2014 | 8,334 kg/ha | +17.0% |
| 2015 | 8,613 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2016 | 9,989 kg/ha | +16.0% |
| 2017 | 8,906 kg/ha | -10.8% |
| 2018 | 8,592 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2019 | 9,361 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 2020 | 6,474 kg/ha | -30.8% |
| 2021 | 7,385 kg/ha | +14.1% |
| 2022 | 10,892 kg/ha | +47.5% |
| 2023 | 10,612 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 2024 | 10,590 kg/ha | -0.2% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Yams — Yield in Caribbean changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | +47.5% | 7,385 kg/ha | 10,892 kg/ha |
| 1995 | +39.2% | 4,462 kg/ha | 6,211 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,510 kg/ha | 6,300 kg/ha | 6,692 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,719 kg/ha | 6,094 kg/ha | 7,102 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,221 kg/ha | 5,600 kg/ha | 7,058 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,620 kg/ha | 4,462 kg/ha | 8,177 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,385 kg/ha | 5,841 kg/ha | 8,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,375 kg/ha | 7,124 kg/ha | 9,989 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9,191 kg/ha | 6,474 kg/ha | 10,892 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Caribbean
- 6 Senegal 18,734 kg/ha compare
- 6 Polynesia 9,318 kg/ha compare
- 7 Jamaica 17,793 kg/ha compare
- 8 Papua New Guinea 17,544 kg/ha compare
- 8 United Republic of Tanzania 6,195 kg/ha compare
- 9 Democratic Republic of the Congo 4,632 kg/ha compare
- 9 Mali 17,520 kg/ha compare
- 10 Portugal 17,138 kg/ha compare
- 11 Benin 16,021 kg/ha compare
- 12 Saint Lucia 15,317 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Caribbean?
- Yams — yield in Caribbean was 10,590 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 10,892 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,462 kg/ha in 1994.
- How does Caribbean rank for yams — yield?
- Caribbean ranks 9th out of 20 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is up 27.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Caribbean 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.