Yams — Yield in Cuba
Cuba: Yams — Yield was 3,587 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Yams — Yield in Cuba, 1992–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for yams — yield in Cuba is 3,587 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 3.9% on the previous year and down 37.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Cuba peaked at 33,333 kg/ha in 2000 and was at its lowest, 136.7 kg/ha, in 1994.
Cuba ranks 57th of 67 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1,205 kg/ha | 136.7 kg/ha | 7,095 kg/ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 11,658 kg/ha | 4,280 kg/ha | 33,333 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,780 kg/ha | 4,399 kg/ha | 6,928 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,251 kg/ha | 3,587 kg/ha | 5,217 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Cuba
More agriculture & rural data for Cuba
- Agriculture share gdp 1.24 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.24 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.5% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2022)
- Rural population 22.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 2.49 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.2% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.96 billion current US$ (2020)
- Bananas — Production 155,957 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Cuba?
- Yams — yield in Cuba was 3,587 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Cuba?
- The highest recorded value was 33,333 kg/ha in 2000.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Cuba?
- The lowest recorded value was 136.7 kg/ha in 1994.
- How does Cuba rank for yams — yield?
- Cuba ranks 57th out of 67 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Cuba?
- Over the last ten years it is down 37.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Cuba 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.