Yams — Yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs): Yams — Yield was 9,480 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for yams — yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) is 9,480 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 14.2% on the previous year and up 0.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) peaked at 10,192 kg/ha in 2011 and was at its lowest, 5,659 kg/ha, in 1970.
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 10th of 20 groups 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 Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,829 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,663 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1963 | 5,811 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1964 | 5,857 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1965 | 5,849 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1966 | 5,661 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1967 | 5,789 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1968 | 5,937 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1969 | 5,805 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1970 | 5,659 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1971 | 6,085 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1972 | 6,344 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1973 | 6,300 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1974 | 6,022 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1975 | 6,250 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1976 | 6,346 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1977 | 6,075 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1978 | 6,332 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1979 | 6,334 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 6,300 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1981 | 6,227 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1982 | 5,963 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1983 | 5,827 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1984 | 6,932 kg/ha | +19.0% |
| 1985 | 6,697 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1986 | 6,857 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1987 | 6,605 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1988 | 6,856 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1989 | 7,165 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1990 | 7,064 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1991 | 7,075 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1992 | 6,714 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1993 | 7,798 kg/ha | +16.1% |
| 1994 | 7,785 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1995 | 7,715 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1996 | 7,564 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1997 | 8,025 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1998 | 8,146 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1999 | 8,552 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 2000 | 8,498 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2001 | 8,420 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2002 | 8,897 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 2003 | 8,718 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2004 | 9,110 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2005 | 8,706 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 2006 | 8,374 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 2007 | 8,485 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2008 | 9,754 kg/ha | +15.0% |
| 2009 | 9,840 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2010 | 9,576 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2011 | 10,192 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 2012 | 9,311 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 2013 | 9,759 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 2014 | 9,474 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2015 | 8,959 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 2016 | 9,516 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 2017 | 9,691 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2018 | 9,145 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 2019 | 9,234 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2020 | 8,916 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2021 | 8,712 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2022 | 8,934 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2023 | 8,300 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 2024 | 9,480 kg/ha | +14.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,800 kg/ha | 5,661 kg/ha | 5,937 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,175 kg/ha | 5,659 kg/ha | 6,346 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,543 kg/ha | 5,827 kg/ha | 7,165 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,644 kg/ha | 6,714 kg/ha | 8,552 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,880 kg/ha | 8,374 kg/ha | 9,840 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,486 kg/ha | 8,959 kg/ha | 10,192 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,868 kg/ha | 8,300 kg/ha | 9,480 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Yams — yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) was 9,480 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 10,192 kg/ha in 2011.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,659 kg/ha in 1970.
- How does Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) rank for yams — yield?
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 10th out of 20 groups with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 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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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.