Yams — Yield in Guinea
Guinea: Yams — Yield was 8,354 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in Guinea, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for yams — yield in Guinea is 8,354 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 2.0% on the previous year and up 3.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Guinea peaked at 13,314 kg/ha in 2009 and was at its lowest, 7,857 kg/ha, in 1970.
Guinea ranks 37th of 67 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,673 kg/ha | 8,333 kg/ha | 9,231 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,657 kg/ha | 7,857 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,043 kg/ha | 8,444 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 11,009 kg/ha | 9,733 kg/ha | 12,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 11,577 kg/ha | 9,117 kg/ha | 13,314 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,537 kg/ha | 7,976 kg/ha | 11,372 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,495 kg/ha | 8,354 kg/ha | 8,600 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Guinea
More agriculture & rural data for Guinea
- Agriculture share gdp 31.29 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 31.29 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.8% (2016)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2016)
- Rural population 61.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.6% (2025)
- Rural population 9.28 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 31.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.87 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 231,171 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Guinea?
- Yams — yield in Guinea was 8,354 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Guinea?
- The highest recorded value was 13,314 kg/ha in 2009.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Guinea?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,857 kg/ha in 1970.
- How does Guinea rank for yams — yield?
- Guinea ranks 37th out of 67 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Guinea?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Guinea 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.