Yams — Yield in Senegal
Senegal: Yams — Yield was 18,734 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Yams — Yield in Senegal, 2014–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, yams — yield in Senegal stood at 18,734 kg/ha.
The figure is up 17.6% on the previous year and down 10.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Senegal peaked at 21,000 kg/ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 15,928 kg/ha, in 2023.
Senegal ranks 6th of 61 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 11 years of available data.
Yams — Yield in Senegal, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 21,000 kg/ha | — |
| 2015 | 19,022 kg/ha | -9.4% |
| 2016 | 20,000 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2017 | 18,997 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2018 | 17,995 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 2019 | 17,655 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2020 | 17,064 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2021 | 16,749 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2022 | 16,406 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2023 | 15,928 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2024 | 18,734 kg/ha | +17.6% |
Senegal compared with similar countries
- Senegal's 18,734 kg/ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 8,594 kg/ha, 2.2× the median. (18 countries reporting)
- Senegal's 18,734 kg/ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 8,698 kg/ha, 2.2× the median. (23 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 19,112 kg/ha | 17,655 kg/ha | 21,000 kg/ha | 6 |
| 2020s | 16,976 kg/ha | 15,928 kg/ha | 18,734 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Senegal
- 3 India 25,051 kg/ha compare
- 4 Fiji 20,000 kg/ha compare
- 4 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 10,590 kg/ha compare
- 5 Ghana 18,849 kg/ha compare
- 6 Polynesia 9,318 kg/ha compare
- 7 Jamaica 17,793 kg/ha compare
- 8 Papua New Guinea 17,544 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
More agriculture & rural data for Senegal
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 26.22 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1708 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 333.94 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.11 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4423 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 17.1% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 17.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Senegal?
- Yams — yield in Senegal was 18,734 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Senegal?
- The highest recorded value was 21,000 kg/ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Senegal?
- The lowest recorded value was 15,928 kg/ha in 2023.
- How does Senegal rank for yams — yield?
- Senegal ranks 6th out of 61 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Senegal?
- Over the last ten years it is down 10.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Senegal 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.