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 18th out of 20 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.
Yams — Yield in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,740 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 3,692 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1963 | 4,236 kg/ha | +14.7% |
| 1964 | 4,255 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1965 | 4,278 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1966 | 4,292 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1967 | 4,313 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1968 | 4,318 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1969 | 4,348 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1970 | 4,388 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1971 | 4,430 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1972 | 4,414 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1973 | 4,413 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1974 | 4,420 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1975 | 4,437 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1976 | 4,515 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1977 | 4,517 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 4,422 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1979 | 4,419 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1980 | 4,413 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1981 | 4,394 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1982 | 4,386 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1983 | 4,423 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1984 | 4,171 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1985 | 4,196 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1986 | 4,200 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1987 | 3,938 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1988 | 4,034 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1989 | 4,213 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1990 | 4,326 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1991 | 4,250 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1992 | 4,254 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1993 | 5,717 kg/ha | +34.4% |
| 1994 | 5,418 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1995 | 5,356 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1996 | 5,149 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1997 | 5,128 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1998 | 4,985 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1999 | 5,584 kg/ha | +12.0% |
| 2000 | 5,066 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 2001 | 5,445 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 2002 | 5,124 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 2003 | 5,694 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 2004 | 5,771 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2005 | 5,884 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2006 | 6,024 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2007 | 5,744 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 2008 | 5,658 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2009 | 5,610 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2010 | 6,298 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 2011 | 6,535 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2012 | 4,529 kg/ha | -30.7% |
| 2013 | 5,663 kg/ha | +25.0% |
| 2014 | 4,545 kg/ha | -19.7% |
| 2015 | 5,547 kg/ha | +22.0% |
| 2016 | 5,281 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 2017 | 5,069 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 2018 | 5,048 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2019 | 5,047 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2020 | 5,002 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2021 | 4,648 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 2022 | 4,669 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2023 | 5,057 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 2024 | 5,020 kg/ha | -0.7% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Yams — Yield in Eastern Africa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | +34.4% | 4,254 kg/ha | 5,717 kg/ha |
| 2012 | -30.7% | 6,535 kg/ha | 4,529 kg/ha |
| 2013 | +25.0% | 4,529 kg/ha | 5,663 kg/ha |
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
- 15 Nicaragua 13,388 kg/ha compare
- 16 Tonga 13,282 kg/ha compare
- 17 Costa Rica 13,094 kg/ha compare
- 17 Côte d'Ivoire 5,113 kg/ha compare
- 18 Burundi 12,938 kg/ha compare
- 19 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 12,426 kg/ha compare
- 20 Barbados 12,397 kg/ha compare
- 21 Guadeloupe 12,000 kg/ha compare
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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 18th out of 20 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.