Yams — Yield in Middle Africa
Middle Africa: Yams — Yield was 6,230 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in Middle Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, yams — yield in Middle Africa stood at 6,230 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.7% on the previous year and down 18.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Middle Africa peaked at 7,979 kg/ha in 2009 and was at its lowest, 4,956 kg/ha, in 1967.
That places Middle Africa 20th out of 23 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,242 kg/ha | 4,956 kg/ha | 5,463 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,596 kg/ha | 5,010 kg/ha | 5,920 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,431 kg/ha | 5,881 kg/ha | 7,126 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,711 kg/ha | 6,259 kg/ha | 7,346 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,297 kg/ha | 6,629 kg/ha | 7,979 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,323 kg/ha | 6,451 kg/ha | 7,797 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,398 kg/ha | 6,230 kg/ha | 6,511 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Middle Africa
- 17 Tonga 13,282 kg/ha compare
- 18 Costa Rica 13,094 kg/ha compare
- 19 Burundi 12,938 kg/ha compare
- 20 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 12,426 kg/ha compare
- 21 Barbados 12,397 kg/ha compare
- 22 Guadeloupe 12,000 kg/ha compare
- 23 Colombia 11,644 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Middle Africa
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 113,974 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 19,128 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 2.18 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 16,416 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 13,891 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 511,443 ha (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 4.75 million An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 57 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 270,208 t (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 8.08 million An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Middle Africa?
- Yams — yield in Middle Africa was 6,230 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Middle Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 7,979 kg/ha in 2009.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Middle Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,956 kg/ha in 1967.
- How does Middle Africa rank for yams — yield?
- Middle Africa ranks 20th out of 23 groups with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Middle Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 18.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Middle Africa 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.