Yams — Yield in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago: Yams — Yield was 0 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Yams — Yield in Trinidad and Tobago, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, yams — yield in Trinidad and Tobago stood at 0 kg/ha. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is down 100.0% on the previous year and down 100.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Trinidad and Tobago peaked at 19,750 kg/ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 0 kg/ha, in 2024.
That places Trinidad and Tobago 67th out of 67 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 15,702 kg/ha | 15,649 kg/ha | 15,821 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 16,683 kg/ha | 15,687 kg/ha | 18,889 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 15,111 kg/ha | 11,964 kg/ha | 18,516 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,889 kg/ha | 8,667 kg/ha | 12,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,518 kg/ha | 6,000 kg/ha | 9,333 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,791 kg/ha | 2,071 kg/ha | 6,800 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,639 kg/ha | 0 kg/ha | 19,750 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Trinidad and Tobago
- Agriculture share gdp 0.7776 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 0.7776 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2024)
- Rural population 46.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.1% (2025)
- Rural population 629,587 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 0.8% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 199.33 million current US$ (2024)
- Bananas — Production 3,246 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Yams — yield in Trinidad and Tobago was 0 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Trinidad and Tobago?
- The highest recorded value was 19,750 kg/ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Trinidad and Tobago?
- The lowest recorded value was 0 kg/ha in 2024.
- How does Trinidad and Tobago rank for yams — yield?
- Trinidad and Tobago ranks 67th out of 67 countries with data for 2024.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Over the last ten years it is down 100.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Trinidad and Tobago 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.