Yams — Yield in Melanesia
Melanesia: Yams — Yield was 15,303 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, yams — yield in Melanesia stood at 15,303 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.1% on the previous year and up 0.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Melanesia peaked at 15,398 kg/ha in 2013 and was at its lowest, 12,404 kg/ha, in 2008.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Yams — Yield in Melanesia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 12,857 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 13,004 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1963 | 12,857 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1964 | 12,911 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1965 | 13,004 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1966 | 13,060 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1967 | 12,749 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1968 | 12,615 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1969 | 12,527 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1970 | 12,725 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1971 | 12,870 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1972 | 13,232 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1973 | 13,704 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1974 | 13,878 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1975 | 13,938 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1976 | 13,862 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1977 | 13,750 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1978 | 13,993 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1979 | 13,959 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1980 | 14,041 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1981 | 14,155 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1982 | 14,302 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1983 | 14,242 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1984 | 13,958 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1985 | 13,970 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1986 | 13,946 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1987 | 14,148 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1988 | 14,308 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1989 | 14,202 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1990 | 14,065 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1991 | 12,980 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 1992 | 13,191 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1993 | 13,710 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1994 | 14,056 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1995 | 14,300 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1996 | 14,555 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1997 | 15,071 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1998 | 15,116 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1999 | 15,057 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2000 | 15,093 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2001 | 14,883 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2002 | 15,018 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2003 | 14,976 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2004 | 14,023 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 2005 | 13,748 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2006 | 13,979 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2007 | 13,761 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2008 | 12,404 kg/ha | -9.9% |
| 2009 | 14,179 kg/ha | +14.3% |
| 2010 | 14,719 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2011 | 14,990 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2012 | 15,301 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2013 | 15,398 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2014 | 15,233 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2015 | 15,317 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2016 | 15,191 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2017 | 15,177 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2018 | 15,334 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2019 | 15,277 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2020 | 14,760 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2021 | 15,004 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2022 | 15,360 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2023 | 15,318 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2024 | 15,303 kg/ha | -0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12,843 kg/ha | 12,527 kg/ha | 13,060 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 13,591 kg/ha | 12,725 kg/ha | 13,993 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 14,127 kg/ha | 13,946 kg/ha | 14,308 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 14,210 kg/ha | 12,980 kg/ha | 15,116 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 14,206 kg/ha | 12,404 kg/ha | 15,093 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 15,194 kg/ha | 14,719 kg/ha | 15,398 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 15,149 kg/ha | 14,760 kg/ha | 15,360 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Melanesia?
- Yams — yield in Melanesia was 15,303 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 15,398 kg/ha in 2013.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 12,404 kg/ha in 2008.
- How does Melanesia rank for yams — yield?
- Melanesia ranks 2nd out of 9 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Melanesia 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.