Malawi vs Northern Africa: Sweet potatoes — Yield

Malawi
25,355 kg/ha
in 2024
Northern Africa
13,956 kg/ha
in 2024
Malawi rank
12th
Northern Africa rank
11th

Sweet potatoes — Yield over time

  • Malawi
  • Northern Africa
010.0k20.0k30.0k196119922024

How they compare

Malawi currently reports 25,355 kg/ha against 13,956 kg/ha in Northern Africa, a difference of 11,399 kg/ha.

That makes Malawi's figure about 1.8 times Northern Africa's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 11 shared years of data; in 2014 it was Northern Africa ahead.

Malawi ranks 12th and Northern Africa ranks 11th of 112 countries.

Malawi has averaged higher in every one of the 2 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Malawi Northern Africa Difference Ahead
2010s 20,490 kg/ha 20,288 kg/ha 201.95 kg/ha Malawi
2020s 23,990 kg/ha 15,534 kg/ha 8,456 kg/ha Malawi

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sweet potatoes — yield, Malawi or Northern Africa?
Malawi, at 25,355 kg/ha against 13,956 kg/ha in Northern Africa as of 2024.
What is the difference in sweet potatoes — yield between Malawi and Northern Africa?
11,399 kg/ha, with Malawi ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Malawi and Northern Africa?
11 years are reported by both, from 2014 to 2024.
How do Malawi and Northern Africa rank globally for sweet potatoes — yield?
Malawi ranks 12th and Northern Africa ranks 11th of 112 countries.
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.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Malawi vs Northern Africa: Sweet potatoes — Yield. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 24 August 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/sweet-potatoes-yield/malawi/northern-africa/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/sweet-potatoes-yield/malawi/northern-africa/">Malawi vs Northern Africa: Sweet potatoes — Yield</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Sweet potatoes — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
153 places, 8,853 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.