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 25th 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 | 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
- 22 Guadeloupe 12,000 kg/ha compare
- 23 Colombia 11,644 kg/ha compare
- 24 Burkina Faso 11,229 kg/ha compare
- 25 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 10,590 kg/ha compare
- 27 Solomon Islands 10,159 kg/ha compare
- 28 Brazil 9,791 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Caribbean
- Bananas — Area harvested 150,870 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 2.72 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 29,645 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 71 kg/An (2024)
- Cabbages — Area harvested 8,527 ha (2024)
- Cabbages — Yield 19,733 kg/ha (2024)
- Cabbages — Production 168,261 t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production 7,589 t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 1.91 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 13,712 t (2024)
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 25th out of 67 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.