Mexico vs Peru: Sweet potatoes — Yield
Sweet potatoes — Yield over time
- Mexico
- Peru
How they compare
Mexico currently reports 20,302 kg/ha against 18,000 kg/ha in Peru, a difference of 2,302 kg/ha.
That makes Mexico's figure about 1.1 times Peru's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Peru ahead.
Mexico ranks 24th and Peru ranks 26th of 125 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Mexico averaged higher in 5 and Peru in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Mexico | Peru | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,920 kg/ha | 10,968 kg/ha | 3,048 kg/ha | Peru |
| 1970s | 10,852 kg/ha | 11,538 kg/ha | 685.75 kg/ha | Peru |
| 1980s | 15,979 kg/ha | 11,343 kg/ha | 4,635 kg/ha | Mexico |
| 1990s | 18,800 kg/ha | 16,026 kg/ha | 2,774 kg/ha | Mexico |
| 2000s | 20,661 kg/ha | 16,209 kg/ha | 4,452 kg/ha | Mexico |
| 2010s | 19,310 kg/ha | 17,739 kg/ha | 1,571 kg/ha | Mexico |
| 2020s | 20,182 kg/ha | 17,934 kg/ha | 2,247 kg/ha | Mexico |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — yield, Mexico or Peru?
- Mexico, at 20,302 kg/ha against 18,000 kg/ha in Peru as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — yield between Mexico and Peru?
- 2,302 kg/ha, with Mexico ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Mexico and Peru?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Mexico and Peru rank globally for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Mexico ranks 24th and Peru ranks 26th of 125 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.
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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.