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 33rd of 61 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.
Yams — Yield in Guinea, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 8,333 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 8,333 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 8,333 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 9,167 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1965 | 9,167 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 8,462 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 1967 | 9,231 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 1968 | 8,571 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 1969 | 8,462 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1970 | 7,857 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 1971 | 9,231 kg/ha | +17.5% |
| 1972 | 10,000 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1973 | 8,500 kg/ha | -15.0% |
| 1974 | 8,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 8,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 8,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 8,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 8,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 8,481 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1980 | 8,506 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1981 | 8,492 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1982 | 8,444 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1983 | 8,465 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1984 | 8,523 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1985 | 9,333 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 1986 | 9,333 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 9,333 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 10,000 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1989 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1991 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 9,733 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1993 | 10,794 kg/ha | +10.9% |
| 1994 | 12,000 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 1995 | 11,875 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1996 | 11,230 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1997 | 11,176 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1998 | 11,818 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1999 | 11,465 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2000 | 11,521 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2001 | 11,557 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2002 | 12,029 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2003 | 12,109 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2004 | 11,659 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 2005 | 11,589 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2006 | 11,844 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2007 | 11,027 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 2008 | 9,117 kg/ha | -17.3% |
| 2009 | 13,314 kg/ha | +46.0% |
| 2010 | 10,924 kg/ha | -18.0% |
| 2011 | 11,122 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2012 | 11,159 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2013 | 11,372 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2014 | 8,068 kg/ha | -29.1% |
| 2015 | 7,976 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2016 | 8,182 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2017 | 9,004 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 2018 | 9,366 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2019 | 8,200 kg/ha | -12.5% |
| 2020 | 8,500 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2021 | 8,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 8,600 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2023 | 8,522 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2024 | 8,354 kg/ha | -2.0% |
Guinea compared with similar countries
- Guinea's 8,354 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 8,594 kg/ha, 97% of the median. (18 countries reporting)
- Guinea's 8,354 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 8,698 kg/ha, 96% of the median. (23 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Yams — Yield in Guinea 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | +46.0% | 9,117 kg/ha | 13,314 kg/ha |
| 2014 | -29.1% | 11,372 kg/ha | 8,068 kg/ha |
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 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Guinea
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 14.56 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3129 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 587.44 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.6 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6148 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 31.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 31.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.8% (2016)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2016)
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 33rd out of 61 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.