Yams — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Yams — Yield was 5,020 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for yams — yield in Eastern Africa is 5,020 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 0.7% on the previous year and up 10.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 6,535 kg/ha in 2011 and was at its lowest, 3,692 kg/ha, in 1962.
That places Eastern Africa 21st out of 23 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom 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 | 4,164 kg/ha | 3,692 kg/ha | 4,348 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,438 kg/ha | 4,388 kg/ha | 4,517 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,237 kg/ha | 3,938 kg/ha | 4,423 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,017 kg/ha | 4,250 kg/ha | 5,717 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,602 kg/ha | 5,066 kg/ha | 6,024 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,356 kg/ha | 4,529 kg/ha | 6,535 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,879 kg/ha | 4,648 kg/ha | 5,057 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Africa
- 18 Costa Rica 13,094 kg/ha compare
- 19 Burundi 12,938 kg/ha compare
- 20 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 12,426 kg/ha compare
- 21 Barbados 12,397 kg/ha compare
- 22 Guadeloupe 12,000 kg/ha compare
- 23 Colombia 11,644 kg/ha compare
- 24 Burkina Faso 11,229 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Eastern Africa
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 205,889 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 641,088 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.08 million ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 546,014 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 3.49 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Production 12.53 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 16,968 kg/ha (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 23.97 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 63,544 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 42 kg/An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Yams — yield in Eastern Africa was 5,020 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 6,535 kg/ha in 2011.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,692 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for yams — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 21st out of 23 groups with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern Africa 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.