Yams — Yield in Dominica
Dominica: Yams — Yield was 14,953 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in Dominica, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Dominica recorded 14,953 kg/ha for yams — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 0.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Dominica peaked at 15,000 kg/ha in 1998 and was at its lowest, 10,000 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Dominica 14th out of 67 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,000 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,258 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 12,182 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 13,907 kg/ha | 12,732 kg/ha | 14,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 14,754 kg/ha | 13,393 kg/ha | 15,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 14,900 kg/ha | 14,868 kg/ha | 14,920 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 14,953 kg/ha | 14,941 kg/ha | 14,965 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 14,954 kg/ha | 14,953 kg/ha | 14,956 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Dominica
- Rural population 17,136 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.2% (2023)
- Rural population 26.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth -2.2% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 12.1% (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 12.1 (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 12.1 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 87.61 million current US$ (2025)
- Cereal yield vs gdp per capita 1.68 (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Dominica?
- Yams — yield in Dominica was 14,953 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Dominica?
- The highest recorded value was 15,000 kg/ha in 1998.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Dominica?
- The lowest recorded value was 10,000 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Dominica rank for yams — yield?
- Dominica ranks 14th out of 67 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Dominica?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Dominica 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.