Yams — Yield in Kenya
Kenya: Yams — Yield was 8,835 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in Kenya, 1989–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for yams — yield in Kenya is 8,835 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 14.2% on the previous year and down 46.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Kenya peaked at 16,552 kg/ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 4,517 kg/ha, in 2009.
That places Kenya 35th out of 67 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 36 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 8,137 kg/ha | 8,137 kg/ha | 8,137 kg/ha | 1 |
| 1990s | 7,126 kg/ha | 4,893 kg/ha | 9,232 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,345 kg/ha | 4,517 kg/ha | 9,502 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,712 kg/ha | 6,564 kg/ha | 16,552 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,463 kg/ha | 7,438 kg/ha | 10,294 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Kenya
More agriculture & rural data for Kenya
- Agriculture share gdp 23.16 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 23.16 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 12.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 67.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.5% (2025)
- Rural population 39.00 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 23.2% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 31.48 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.06 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Kenya?
- Yams — yield in Kenya was 8,835 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 16,552 kg/ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,517 kg/ha in 2009.
- How does Kenya rank for yams — yield?
- Kenya ranks 35th out of 67 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is down 46.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Kenya 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.