Yams — Yield in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea: Yams — Yield was 17,544 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in Papua New Guinea, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Papua New Guinea recorded 17,544 kg/ha for yams — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.4% on the previous year and up 0.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Papua New Guinea peaked at 17,846 kg/ha in 1992 and was at its lowest, 16,111 kg/ha, in 1968.
Papua New Guinea ranks 8th of 61 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Yams — Yield in Papua New Guinea, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 16,575 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 16,667 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1963 | 16,282 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1964 | 16,250 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1965 | 16,220 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1966 | 16,235 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1967 | 16,322 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1968 | 16,111 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1969 | 16,129 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1970 | 16,170 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1971 | 16,316 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1972 | 16,458 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1973 | 16,495 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1974 | 16,326 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1975 | 16,465 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1976 | 16,436 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1977 | 16,505 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1978 | 16,571 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1979 | 16,636 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1980 | 16,697 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1981 | 16,818 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1982 | 17,117 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1983 | 17,321 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1984 | 17,345 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1985 | 17,544 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1986 | 17,414 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1987 | 17,373 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1988 | 17,500 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1989 | 17,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 17,355 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1991 | 17,623 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1992 | 17,846 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1993 | 17,600 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1994 | 17,480 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1995 | 17,498 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1996 | 17,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 17,510 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1998 | 17,538 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1999 | 17,514 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2000 | 17,500 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2001 | 17,333 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2002 | 17,500 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2003 | 17,059 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2004 | 16,843 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2005 | 16,571 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2006 | 16,500 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2007 | 16,757 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2008 | 16,526 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2009 | 16,513 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2010 | 17,105 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2011 | 17,436 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2012 | 17,250 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2013 | 17,500 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2014 | 17,540 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2015 | 17,496 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2016 | 17,571 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2017 | 17,674 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2018 | 17,747 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 17,804 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2020 | 17,265 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2021 | 17,603 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2022 | 17,556 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2023 | 17,474 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2024 | 17,544 kg/ha | +0.4% |
Papua New Guinea compared with similar countries
- Papua New Guinea's 17,544 kg/ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 8,594 kg/ha, 2.0× the median. (18 countries reporting)
- Papua New Guinea's 17,544 kg/ha is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 8,468 kg/ha, 2.1× the median. (10 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16,310 kg/ha | 16,111 kg/ha | 16,667 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 16,438 kg/ha | 16,170 kg/ha | 16,636 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 17,263 kg/ha | 16,697 kg/ha | 17,544 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 17,546 kg/ha | 17,355 kg/ha | 17,846 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 16,910 kg/ha | 16,500 kg/ha | 17,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 17,512 kg/ha | 17,105 kg/ha | 17,804 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 17,488 kg/ha | 17,265 kg/ha | 17,603 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Papua New Guinea
- 5 Ghana 18,849 kg/ha compare
- 6 Senegal 18,734 kg/ha compare
- 6 Polynesia 9,318 kg/ha compare
- 7 Jamaica 17,793 kg/ha compare
- 8 United Republic of Tanzania 6,195 kg/ha compare
- 9 Democratic Republic of the Congo 4,632 kg/ha compare
- 9 Mali 17,520 kg/ha compare
- 9 Caribbean 10,590 kg/ha compare
- 10 Portugal 17,138 kg/ha compare
- 11 Benin 16,021 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Papua New Guinea
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 0.3264 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1702 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 495.76 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.31 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.8422 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 17.0% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 17.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.6% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Papua New Guinea?
- Yams — yield in Papua New Guinea was 17,544 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Papua New Guinea?
- The highest recorded value was 17,846 kg/ha in 1992.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Papua New Guinea?
- The lowest recorded value was 16,111 kg/ha in 1968.
- How does Papua New Guinea rank for yams — yield?
- Papua New Guinea ranks 8th out of 61 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Papua New Guinea?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Papua New Guinea 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.