Yams — Yield in South-Eastern Asia
South-Eastern Asia: Yams — Yield was 4,942 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in South-Eastern Asia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for yams — yield in South-Eastern Asia is 4,942 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 10.6% on the previous year and down 15.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in South-Eastern Asia peaked at 6,484 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 2,271 kg/ha, in 1981.
That places South-Eastern Asia 19th out of 20 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Yams — Yield in South-Eastern Asia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,502 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 1963 | 6,010 kg/ha | +33.5% |
| 1964 | 5,605 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 1965 | 5,285 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1966 | 5,209 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1967 | 5,384 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1968 | 5,049 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1969 | 4,902 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1970 | 4,942 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1971 | 4,509 kg/ha | -8.8% |
| 1972 | 3,983 kg/ha | -11.7% |
| 1973 | 4,281 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1974 | 4,250 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1975 | 4,248 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1976 | 3,764 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 1977 | 3,256 kg/ha | -13.5% |
| 1978 | 3,267 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1979 | 3,096 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1980 | 2,298 kg/ha | -25.8% |
| 1981 | 2,271 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1982 | 2,280 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1983 | 2,986 kg/ha | +30.9% |
| 1984 | 2,424 kg/ha | -18.8% |
| 1985 | 3,339 kg/ha | +37.7% |
| 1986 | 3,892 kg/ha | +16.6% |
| 1987 | 4,365 kg/ha | +12.2% |
| 1988 | 3,956 kg/ha | -9.4% |
| 1989 | 4,340 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 1990 | 4,809 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 1991 | 4,867 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1992 | 4,781 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1993 | 4,888 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1994 | 4,952 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1995 | 4,806 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1996 | 4,707 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1997 | 4,818 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1998 | 4,725 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1999 | 4,819 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2000 | 4,813 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2001 | 4,843 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2002 | 4,855 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2003 | 4,886 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2004 | 4,913 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2005 | 4,967 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2006 | 5,013 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2007 | 5,012 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2008 | 4,640 kg/ha | -7.4% |
| 2009 | 4,578 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2010 | 4,615 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2011 | 6,000 kg/ha | +30.0% |
| 2012 | 6,112 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2013 | 5,635 kg/ha | -7.8% |
| 2014 | 5,828 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2015 | 5,670 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2016 | 5,720 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2017 | 5,851 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2018 | 5,913 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2019 | 5,736 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2020 | 5,730 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2021 | 6,331 kg/ha | +10.5% |
| 2022 | 6,484 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2023 | 5,526 kg/ha | -14.8% |
| 2024 | 4,942 kg/ha | -10.6% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Yams — Yield in South-Eastern Asia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | +37.7% | 2,424 kg/ha | 3,339 kg/ha |
| 1963 | +33.5% | 4,502 kg/ha | 6,010 kg/ha |
| 1983 | +30.9% | 2,280 kg/ha | 2,986 kg/ha |
| 2011 | +30.0% | 4,615 kg/ha | 6,000 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,216 kg/ha | 4,502 kg/ha | 6,010 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,960 kg/ha | 3,096 kg/ha | 4,942 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,215 kg/ha | 2,271 kg/ha | 4,365 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,817 kg/ha | 4,707 kg/ha | 4,952 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,852 kg/ha | 4,578 kg/ha | 5,013 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,708 kg/ha | 4,615 kg/ha | 6,112 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,802 kg/ha | 4,942 kg/ha | 6,484 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near South-Eastern Asia
- 16 Tonga 13,282 kg/ha compare
- 17 Costa Rica 13,094 kg/ha compare
- 17 Côte d'Ivoire 5,113 kg/ha compare
- 18 Burundi 12,938 kg/ha compare
- 19 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 12,426 kg/ha compare
- 20 Barbados 12,397 kg/ha compare
- 21 Guadeloupe 12,000 kg/ha compare
- 22 Colombia 11,644 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in South-Eastern Asia?
- Yams — yield in South-Eastern Asia was 4,942 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in South-Eastern Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 6,484 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in South-Eastern Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,271 kg/ha in 1981.
- How does South-Eastern Asia rank for yams — yield?
- South-Eastern Asia ranks 19th out of 20 groups with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in South-Eastern Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 15.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this South-Eastern Asia 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.