Yams — Yield in New Caledonia
New Caledonia: Yams — Yield was 763.1 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Yams — Yield in New Caledonia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
New Caledonia recorded 763.1 kg/ha for yams — yield in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is down 1.9% on the previous year and down 30.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in New Caledonia peaked at 9,231 kg/ha in 1965 and was at its lowest, 763.1 kg/ha, in 2024.
That places New Caledonia 66th out of 67 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,007 kg/ha | 6,364 kg/ha | 9,231 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,403 kg/ha | 5,926 kg/ha | 6,562 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,437 kg/ha | 6,353 kg/ha | 6,471 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,182 kg/ha | 3,443 kg/ha | 7,978 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,187 kg/ha | 873 kg/ha | 3,936 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,060 kg/ha | 862 kg/ha | 1,462 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 779.86 kg/ha | 763.1 kg/ha | 793.1 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near New Caledonia
- 63 French Polynesia 2,256 kg/ha compare
- 64 Sudan 2,085 kg/ha compare
- 65 Niue 1,154 kg/ha compare
- 67 Trinidad and Tobago 0 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for New Caledonia
- Rural population 93,999 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.4% (2015)
- Agriculture share gdp 1.79 (2019)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 169.25 million current US$ (2019)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.8% (2019)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2015)
- Rural population 31.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.2% (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.79 (2019)
- Cereal yield vs gdp per capita 9.79 (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in New Caledonia?
- Yams — yield in New Caledonia was 763.1 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in New Caledonia?
- The highest recorded value was 9,231 kg/ha in 1965.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in New Caledonia?
- The lowest recorded value was 763.1 kg/ha in 2024.
- How does New Caledonia rank for yams — yield?
- New Caledonia ranks 66th out of 67 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in New Caledonia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 30.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this New Caledonia 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.