Yams — Yield in Polynesia
Polynesia: Yams — Yield was 9,318 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Yams — Yield in Polynesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for yams — yield in Polynesia is 9,318 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 5.9% on the previous year and up 80.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Polynesia peaked at 13,857 kg/ha in 1976 and was at its lowest, 3,174 kg/ha, in 2015.
That places Polynesia 30th out of 67 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12,871 kg/ha | 12,213 kg/ha | 13,485 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 13,428 kg/ha | 13,064 kg/ha | 13,857 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 12,766 kg/ha | 11,866 kg/ha | 13,216 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,692 kg/ha | 7,625 kg/ha | 11,472 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,123 kg/ha | 6,803 kg/ha | 7,944 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,710 kg/ha | 3,174 kg/ha | 9,048 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,883 kg/ha | 8,341 kg/ha | 9,318 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Polynesia
More agriculture & rural data for Polynesia
- Cabbages — Yield 13,722 kg/ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 49 ha (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 120,918 An (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production 309.97 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 252.32 t (2024)
- Cabbages — Production 578.07 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 3,676 ha (2024)
- Vegetables Primary — Yield 4,002 kg/ha (2024)
- Vegetables Primary — Production 35,456 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 1,684 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Polynesia?
- Yams — yield in Polynesia was 9,318 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Polynesia?
- The highest recorded value was 13,857 kg/ha in 1976.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Polynesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,174 kg/ha in 2015.
- How does Polynesia rank for yams — yield?
- Polynesia ranks 30th out of 67 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Polynesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 80.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Polynesia 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.