Yams — Yield in Central America
Central America: Yams — Yield was 8,587 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in Central America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, yams — yield in Central America stood at 8,587 kg/ha.
The figure is up 17.6% on the previous year and down 2.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Central America peaked at 11,254 kg/ha in 2007 and was at its lowest, 4,201 kg/ha, in 1990.
That places Central America 11th out of 20 groups 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.
Yams — Yield in Central America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7,500 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,625 kg/ha | -11.7% |
| 1963 | 6,056 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 1964 | 6,111 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1965 | 6,556 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1966 | 6,889 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1967 | 6,600 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1968 | 7,550 kg/ha | +14.4% |
| 1969 | 6,042 kg/ha | -20.0% |
| 1970 | 7,805 kg/ha | +29.2% |
| 1971 | 7,592 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1972 | 6,250 kg/ha | -17.7% |
| 1973 | 6,430 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1974 | 6,358 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1975 | 6,543 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1976 | 6,606 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1977 | 6,543 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1978 | 6,479 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1979 | 6,291 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1980 | 6,949 kg/ha | +10.5% |
| 1981 | 6,607 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 1982 | 7,113 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1983 | 6,883 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1984 | 6,049 kg/ha | -12.1% |
| 1985 | 5,792 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1986 | 5,737 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1987 | 5,850 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1988 | 5,969 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1989 | 5,117 kg/ha | -14.3% |
| 1990 | 4,201 kg/ha | -17.9% |
| 1991 | 4,361 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1992 | 5,894 kg/ha | +35.2% |
| 1993 | 5,622 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1994 | 7,073 kg/ha | +25.8% |
| 1995 | 6,714 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1996 | 5,517 kg/ha | -17.8% |
| 1997 | 5,451 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1998 | 9,100 kg/ha | +66.9% |
| 1999 | 11,122 kg/ha | +22.2% |
| 2000 | 8,268 kg/ha | -25.7% |
| 2001 | 9,840 kg/ha | +19.0% |
| 2002 | 11,241 kg/ha | +14.2% |
| 2003 | 6,910 kg/ha | -38.5% |
| 2004 | 7,093 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2005 | 6,021 kg/ha | -15.1% |
| 2006 | 10,932 kg/ha | +81.6% |
| 2007 | 11,254 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2008 | 7,176 kg/ha | -36.2% |
| 2009 | 7,552 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 2010 | 8,271 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 2011 | 6,759 kg/ha | -18.3% |
| 2012 | 7,750 kg/ha | +14.7% |
| 2013 | 7,957 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2014 | 8,777 kg/ha | +10.3% |
| 2015 | 7,121 kg/ha | -18.9% |
| 2016 | 7,626 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 2017 | 7,231 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 2018 | 6,728 kg/ha | -7.0% |
| 2019 | 5,769 kg/ha | -14.2% |
| 2020 | 5,158 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 2021 | 5,241 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2022 | 6,568 kg/ha | +25.3% |
| 2023 | 7,301 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 2024 | 8,587 kg/ha | +17.6% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Yams — Yield in Central America 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | +81.6% | 6,021 kg/ha | 10,932 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,659 kg/ha | 6,042 kg/ha | 7,550 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,690 kg/ha | 6,250 kg/ha | 7,805 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,207 kg/ha | 5,117 kg/ha | 7,113 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,506 kg/ha | 4,201 kg/ha | 11,122 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,629 kg/ha | 6,021 kg/ha | 11,254 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,399 kg/ha | 5,769 kg/ha | 8,777 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,571 kg/ha | 5,158 kg/ha | 8,587 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Central America
- 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
- 9 Caribbean 10,590 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
- 13 Dominica 14,953 kg/ha compare
- 14 Grenada 14,127 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Central America
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- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) -1.15 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) -3.58 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cereals, primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -10.47 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) -1.27 % change on previous year (2024)
- Raw milk of cattle — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 0.7054 % change on previous year (2024)
- Potatoes — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 6.46 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant) 0.4048 % change on previous year (2024)
- Maize (corn) — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) -9.54 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 0.8347 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Central America?
- Yams — yield in Central America was 8,587 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Central America?
- The highest recorded value was 11,254 kg/ha in 2007.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Central America?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,201 kg/ha in 1990.
- How does Central America rank for yams — yield?
- Central America ranks 11th out of 20 groups with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Central America?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Central America 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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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.