Puerto Rico vs Uruguay: Sweet potatoes — Yield
Sweet potatoes — Yield over time
- Puerto Rico
- Uruguay
How they compare
Uruguay currently reports 9,690 kg/ha against 9,332 kg/ha in Puerto Rico, a difference of 358 kg/ha.
The two have swapped places 8 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Uruguay ahead.
Puerto Rico ranks 55th and Uruguay ranks 53rd of 110 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Puerto Rico averaged higher in 2 and Uruguay in 5.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Puerto Rico | Uruguay | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,973 kg/ha | 5,067 kg/ha | 2,094 kg/ha | Uruguay |
| 1970s | 4,333 kg/ha | 4,926 kg/ha | 592.65 kg/ha | Uruguay |
| 1980s | 7,329 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 3,329 kg/ha | Puerto Rico |
| 1990s | 7,787 kg/ha | 8,422 kg/ha | 634.86 kg/ha | Uruguay |
| 2000s | 9,009 kg/ha | 9,586 kg/ha | 576.67 kg/ha | Uruguay |
| 2010s | 9,678 kg/ha | 9,411 kg/ha | 266.87 kg/ha | Puerto Rico |
| 2020s | 9,428 kg/ha | 9,723 kg/ha | 294.62 kg/ha | Uruguay |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — yield, Puerto Rico or Uruguay?
- Uruguay, at 9,690 kg/ha against 9,332 kg/ha in Puerto Rico as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — yield between Puerto Rico and Uruguay?
- 358 kg/ha, with Uruguay ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Puerto Rico and Uruguay?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Puerto Rico and Uruguay rank globally for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Puerto Rico ranks 55th and Uruguay ranks 53rd of 110 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.