Yams — Yield in Panama
Panama: Yams — Yield was 7,099 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Yams — Yield in Panama, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for yams — yield in Panama is 7,099 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 28.5% on the previous year and up 35.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Panama peaked at 10,222 kg/ha in 2007 and was at its lowest, 3,109 kg/ha, in 1996.
Panama ranks 36th of 61 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Yams — Yield in Panama, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7,500 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,625 kg/ha | -11.7% |
| 1963 | 6,056 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 1964 | 6,111 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1965 | 6,556 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1966 | 6,889 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1967 | 6,600 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1968 | 7,550 kg/ha | +14.4% |
| 1969 | 6,042 kg/ha | -20.0% |
| 1970 | 7,805 kg/ha | +29.2% |
| 1971 | 7,592 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1972 | 6,250 kg/ha | -17.7% |
| 1973 | 6,430 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1974 | 6,358 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1975 | 6,543 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1976 | 6,606 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1977 | 6,543 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1978 | 6,479 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1979 | 6,291 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1980 | 6,949 kg/ha | +10.5% |
| 1981 | 6,607 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 1982 | 7,113 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1983 | 6,883 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1984 | 6,049 kg/ha | -12.1% |
| 1985 | 5,792 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1986 | 5,737 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1987 | 5,850 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1988 | 5,969 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1989 | 4,411 kg/ha | -26.1% |
| 1990 | 3,130 kg/ha | -29.0% |
| 1991 | 3,412 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 1992 | 3,444 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1993 | 3,392 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1994 | 3,342 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1995 | 3,149 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 1996 | 3,109 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1997 | 3,843 kg/ha | +23.6% |
| 1998 | 6,209 kg/ha | +61.6% |
| 1999 | 6,197 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2000 | 6,176 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2001 | 8,357 kg/ha | +35.3% |
| 2002 | 9,207 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 2003 | 5,211 kg/ha | -43.4% |
| 2004 | 4,970 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 2005 | 6,202 kg/ha | +24.8% |
| 2006 | 8,269 kg/ha | +33.3% |
| 2007 | 10,222 kg/ha | +23.6% |
| 2008 | 4,752 kg/ha | -53.5% |
| 2009 | 4,923 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2010 | 5,277 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 2011 | 3,974 kg/ha | -24.7% |
| 2012 | 4,929 kg/ha | +24.0% |
| 2013 | 5,400 kg/ha | +9.6% |
| 2014 | 5,256 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2015 | 3,760 kg/ha | -28.4% |
| 2016 | 3,306 kg/ha | -12.1% |
| 2017 | 3,373 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2018 | 3,391 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2019 | 3,210 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 2020 | 3,876 kg/ha | +20.8% |
| 2021 | 4,463 kg/ha | +15.1% |
| 2022 | 4,960 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 2023 | 5,526 kg/ha | +11.4% |
| 2024 | 7,099 kg/ha | +28.5% |
Panama compared with similar countries
- Panama's 7,099 kg/ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 6,526 kg/ha, 1.1× the median. (12 countries reporting)
- Panama's 7,099 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 10,718 kg/ha, 66% of the median. (20 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Yams — Yield in Panama changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | +61.6% | 3,843 kg/ha | 6,209 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,659 kg/ha | 6,042 kg/ha | 7,550 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,690 kg/ha | 6,250 kg/ha | 7,805 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,136 kg/ha | 4,411 kg/ha | 7,113 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,923 kg/ha | 3,109 kg/ha | 6,209 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,829 kg/ha | 4,752 kg/ha | 10,222 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,188 kg/ha | 3,210 kg/ha | 5,400 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,185 kg/ha | 3,876 kg/ha | 7,099 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Panama
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.06 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0262 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 518.14 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.7724 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3385 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 2.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 2.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 4.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Panama?
- Yams — yield in Panama was 7,099 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Panama?
- The highest recorded value was 10,222 kg/ha in 2007.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Panama?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,109 kg/ha in 1996.
- How does Panama rank for yams — yield?
- Panama ranks 36th out of 61 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Panama?
- Over the last ten years it is up 35.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Panama 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.