Eastern Africa vs Saint Lucia: Sweet potatoes — Yield
Sweet potatoes — Yield over time
- Eastern Africa
- Saint Lucia
How they compare
Saint Lucia currently reports 23,707 kg/ha against 11,343 kg/ha in Eastern Africa, a difference of 12,364 kg/ha.
That makes Saint Lucia's figure about 2.1 times Eastern Africa's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Eastern Africa ahead.
Eastern Africa ranks 16th and Saint Lucia ranks 16th of 25 groups.
Across the 7 decades both report, Eastern Africa averaged higher in 2 and Saint Lucia in 5.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Eastern Africa | Saint Lucia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,428 kg/ha | 3,190 kg/ha | 2,238 kg/ha | Eastern Africa |
| 1970s | 4,380 kg/ha | 4,053 kg/ha | 326.95 kg/ha | Eastern Africa |
| 1980s | 4,786 kg/ha | 6,955 kg/ha | 2,169 kg/ha | Saint Lucia |
| 1990s | 4,152 kg/ha | 9,762 kg/ha | 5,610 kg/ha | Saint Lucia |
| 2000s | 4,970 kg/ha | 9,091 kg/ha | 4,120 kg/ha | Saint Lucia |
| 2010s | 8,050 kg/ha | 15,308 kg/ha | 7,259 kg/ha | Saint Lucia |
| 2020s | 10,974 kg/ha | 23,219 kg/ha | 12,245 kg/ha | Saint Lucia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — yield, Eastern Africa or Saint Lucia?
- Saint Lucia, at 23,707 kg/ha against 11,343 kg/ha in Eastern Africa as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — yield between Eastern Africa and Saint Lucia?
- 12,364 kg/ha, with Saint Lucia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Eastern Africa and Saint Lucia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Eastern Africa and Saint Lucia rank globally for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 16th and Saint Lucia ranks 16th of 25 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.