Yams — Yield in Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic: Yams — Yield was 8,337 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Yams — Yield in Dominican Republic, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, yams — yield in Dominican Republic stood at 8,337 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.6% on the previous year and up 29.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Dominican Republic peaked at 8,337 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 4,851 kg/ha, in 1986.
Dominican Republic ranks 38th of 67 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,104 kg/ha | 7,897 kg/ha | 8,280 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,828 kg/ha | 6,424 kg/ha | 8,176 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,026 kg/ha | 4,851 kg/ha | 7,312 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,680 kg/ha | 4,863 kg/ha | 7,115 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,538 kg/ha | 5,634 kg/ha | 7,017 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,573 kg/ha | 6,343 kg/ha | 6,933 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 7,641 kg/ha | 7,028 kg/ha | 8,337 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Dominican Republic
- Agriculture share gdp 4.6 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 4.6 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.5% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2024)
- Rural population 27.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.4% (2025)
- Rural population 3.17 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.86 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.04 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Dominican Republic?
- Yams — yield in Dominican Republic was 8,337 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Dominican Republic?
- The highest recorded value was 8,337 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Dominican Republic?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,851 kg/ha in 1986.
- How does Dominican Republic rank for yams — yield?
- Dominican Republic ranks 38th out of 67 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Dominican Republic?
- Over the last ten years it is up 29.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Dominican Republic 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.