Asia vs Australia: Sweet potatoes — Yield
Sweet potatoes — Yield over time
- Asia
- Australia
How they compare
Australia currently reports 41,794 kg/ha against 20,619 kg/ha in Asia, a difference of 21,175 kg/ha.
That makes Australia's figure about 2.0 times Asia's.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Australia ahead.
Asia ranks 6th and Australia ranks 3rd of 28 groups.
Across the 7 decades both report, Asia averaged higher in 3 and Australia in 4.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Asia | Australia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,300 kg/ha | 7,890 kg/ha | 1,410 kg/ha | Asia |
| 1970s | 12,448 kg/ha | 9,520 kg/ha | 2,928 kg/ha | Asia |
| 1980s | 15,207 kg/ha | 12,509 kg/ha | 2,698 kg/ha | Asia |
| 1990s | 16,987 kg/ha | 18,136 kg/ha | 1,149 kg/ha | Australia |
| 2000s | 19,432 kg/ha | 31,464 kg/ha | 12,032 kg/ha | Australia |
| 2010s | 19,684 kg/ha | 36,431 kg/ha | 16,747 kg/ha | Australia |
| 2020s | 20,573 kg/ha | 40,905 kg/ha | 20,332 kg/ha | Australia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — yield, Asia or Australia?
- Australia, at 41,794 kg/ha against 20,619 kg/ha in Asia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — yield between Asia and Australia?
- 21,175 kg/ha, with Australia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Asia and Australia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Asia and Australia rank globally for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Asia ranks 6th and Australia ranks 3rd of 28 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Sweet potatoes — Yield. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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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.