Yams — Yield in Small island developing States (SIDS)
Small island developing States (SIDS): Yams — Yield was 12,374 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in Small island developing States (SIDS), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Small island developing States (SIDS) recorded 12,374 kg/ha for yams — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 27.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Small island developing States (SIDS) peaked at 12,526 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 5,804 kg/ha, in 1994.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Yams — Yield in Small island developing States (SIDS), year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 8,203 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 8,363 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1963 | 8,393 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1964 | 8,429 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1965 | 8,250 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1966 | 8,288 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1967 | 8,098 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1968 | 8,270 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1969 | 8,295 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1970 | 8,357 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1971 | 8,596 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1972 | 8,561 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1973 | 8,632 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1974 | 8,700 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1975 | 8,623 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1976 | 8,481 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1977 | 8,126 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1978 | 8,188 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1979 | 7,958 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1980 | 7,842 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1981 | 7,861 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1982 | 7,761 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1983 | 7,782 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1984 | 7,864 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1985 | 8,016 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1986 | 8,429 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1987 | 8,595 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1988 | 8,943 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1989 | 8,830 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1990 | 8,878 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1991 | 8,876 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1992 | 8,089 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 1993 | 7,433 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1994 | 5,804 kg/ha | -21.9% |
| 1995 | 7,629 kg/ha | +31.4% |
| 1996 | 7,426 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1997 | 8,580 kg/ha | +15.5% |
| 1998 | 8,486 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1999 | 9,760 kg/ha | +15.0% |
| 2000 | 9,826 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2001 | 10,158 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2002 | 10,295 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2003 | 10,268 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2004 | 9,686 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 2005 | 8,708 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 2006 | 8,206 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 2007 | 7,317 kg/ha | -10.8% |
| 2008 | 7,349 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2009 | 7,494 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2010 | 8,427 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 2011 | 9,086 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 2012 | 8,923 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2013 | 8,318 kg/ha | -6.8% |
| 2014 | 9,700 kg/ha | +16.6% |
| 2015 | 10,181 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 2016 | 11,656 kg/ha | +14.5% |
| 2017 | 10,988 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 2018 | 10,802 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2019 | 11,597 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 2020 | 9,441 kg/ha | -18.6% |
| 2021 | 10,221 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 2022 | 12,526 kg/ha | +22.6% |
| 2023 | 12,379 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2024 | 12,374 kg/ha | -0.0% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Yams — Yield in Small island developing States (SIDS) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | +31.4% | 5,804 kg/ha | 7,629 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,288 kg/ha | 8,098 kg/ha | 8,429 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,422 kg/ha | 7,958 kg/ha | 8,700 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 8,192 kg/ha | 7,761 kg/ha | 8,943 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,096 kg/ha | 5,804 kg/ha | 9,760 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,931 kg/ha | 7,317 kg/ha | 10,295 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,968 kg/ha | 8,318 kg/ha | 11,656 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,388 kg/ha | 9,441 kg/ha | 12,526 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Small island developing States (SIDS)?
- Yams — yield in Small island developing States (SIDS) was 12,374 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Small island developing States (SIDS)?
- The highest recorded value was 12,526 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Small island developing States (SIDS)?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,804 kg/ha in 1994.
- How does Small island developing States (SIDS) rank for yams — yield?
- Small island developing States (SIDS) ranks 3rd out of 9 groups with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Small island developing States (SIDS)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 27.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Small island developing States (SIDS) 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.