Sweet potatoes — Area harvested, per capita in El Salvador
El Salvador: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested, per capita was 0 ha per person in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested, per capita in El Salvador, 1961–2024
Source: Statizoid (derived). Measured in ha per person.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — area harvested, per capita in El Salvador is 0 ha per person, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.5% on the previous year and up 2.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested, per capita in El Salvador peaked at 0 ha per person in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0 ha per person, in 1997.
El Salvador ranks 86th of 99 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested, per capita in El Salvador, year by year
| Year | ha per person | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 0 ha per person | — |
| 1962 | 0 ha per person | -2.7% |
| 1963 | 0 ha per person | -0.5% |
| 1964 | 0 ha per person | -2.7% |
| 1965 | 0 ha per person | +1.5% |
| 1966 | 0 ha per person | -2.8% |
| 1967 | 0 ha per person | +1.3% |
| 1968 | 0 ha per person | -2.7% |
| 1969 | 0 ha per person | -2.7% |
| 1970 | 0 ha per person | -2.5% |
| 1971 | 0 ha per person | +7.4% |
| 1972 | 0 ha per person | -2.3% |
| 1973 | 0 ha per person | -0.5% |
| 1974 | 0 ha per person | +1.2% |
| 1975 | 0 ha per person | +1.2% |
| 1976 | 0 ha per person | -2.1% |
| 1977 | 0 ha per person | +2.8% |
| 1978 | 0 ha per person | -6.8% |
| 1979 | 0 ha per person | -1.9% |
| 1980 | 0 ha per person | -1.3% |
| 1981 | 0 ha per person | -0.7% |
| 1982 | 0 ha per person | -1.1% |
| 1983 | 0 ha per person | -1.8% |
| 1984 | 0 ha per person | -1.9% |
| 1985 | 0 ha per person | -2.0% |
| 1986 | 0 ha per person | -2.0% |
| 1987 | 0 ha per person | -2.0% |
| 1988 | 0 ha per person | -2.0% |
| 1989 | 0 ha per person | +16.0% |
| 1990 | 0 ha per person | -3.2% |
| 1991 | 0 ha per person | -0.3% |
| 1992 | 0 ha per person | +3.9% |
| 1993 | 0 ha per person | -1.3% |
| 1994 | 0 ha per person | +5.7% |
| 1995 | 0 ha per person | -0.8% |
| 1996 | 0 ha per person | -5.7% |
| 1997 | 0 ha per person | -26.8% |
| 1998 | 0 ha per person | +50.9% |
| 1999 | 0 ha per person | -2.9% |
| 2000 | 0 ha per person | +4.3% |
| 2001 | 0 ha per person | -0.4% |
| 2002 | 0 ha per person | +2.0% |
| 2003 | 0 ha per person | +2.0% |
| 2004 | 0 ha per person | +1.0% |
| 2005 | 0 ha per person | +3.2% |
| 2006 | 0 ha per person | +1.1% |
| 2007 | 0 ha per person | -6.4% |
| 2008 | 0 ha per person | +11.9% |
| 2009 | 0 ha per person | +2.6% |
| 2010 | 0 ha per person | +2.5% |
| 2011 | 0 ha per person | +2.4% |
| 2012 | 0 ha per person | +8.7% |
| 2013 | 0 ha per person | -0.4% |
| 2014 | 0 ha per person | +3.8% |
| 2015 | 0 ha per person | -2.7% |
| 2016 | 0 ha per person | +2.2% |
| 2017 | 0 ha per person | +2.2% |
| 2018 | 0 ha per person | +2.2% |
| 2019 | 0 ha per person | +2.2% |
| 2020 | 0 ha per person | -2.4% |
| 2021 | 0 ha per person | +0.4% |
| 2022 | 0 ha per person | +0.4% |
| 2023 | 0 ha per person | -1.2% |
| 2024 | 0 ha per person | -0.5% |
El Salvador compared with similar countries
- El Salvador's 0 ha per person is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 0.0004 ha per person, 6% of the median. (30 countries reporting)
- El Salvador's 0 ha per person is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 0.0003 ha per person, 7% of the median. (30 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Area harvested, per capita in El Salvador changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | +50.9% | 0 ha per person | 0 ha per person |
| 1997 | -26.8% | 0 ha per person | 0 ha per person |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0 ha per person | 0 ha per person | 0 ha per person | 9 |
| 1970s | 0 ha per person | 0 ha per person | 0 ha per person | 10 |
| 1980s | 0 ha per person | 0 ha per person | 0 ha per person | 10 |
| 1990s | 0 ha per person | 0 ha per person | 0 ha per person | 10 |
| 2000s | 0 ha per person | 0 ha per person | 0 ha per person | 10 |
| 2010s | 0 ha per person | 0 ha per person | 0 ha per person | 10 |
| 2020s | 0 ha per person | 0 ha per person | 0 ha per person | 5 |
Countries ranked near El Salvador
More agriculture & rural data for El Salvador
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.84 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.044 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 253.9 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.41 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2448 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 4.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 4.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested, per capita in El Salvador?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested, per capita in El Salvador was 0 ha per person in 2024, according to Statizoid (derived).
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested, per capita recorded in El Salvador?
- The highest recorded value was 0 ha per person in 2019.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested, per capita recorded in El Salvador?
- The lowest recorded value was 0 ha per person in 1997.
- How does El Salvador rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested, per capita?
- El Salvador ranks 86th out of 99 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested, per capita rising or falling in El Salvador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this El Salvador data come from?
- The figures come from Statizoid (derived), published as part of Sweet potatoes — Area harvested, per capita. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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How this figure is calculated
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested ÷ Population, total
Computed from
- Sweet potatoes — Area harvested Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Population, total World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN)
Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.
About this data
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.