Sweet potatoes — Area harvested, per square kilometre by country
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Countries reporting
99
Highest
7.22 ha per square kilometre
Rwanda
Lowest
0 ha per square kilometre
Singapore
Median
0.0326 ha per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
5,585
What the numbers show
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested, per square kilometre is currently reported for 99 countries. The highest value is 7.22 ha per square kilometre in Rwanda; the lowest is 0 ha per square kilometre in Singapore.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.0326 ha per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.2927 ha per square kilometre.
Over the past decade 55 countries rose and 41 fell. The largest increase was in Guatemala (up 2,827.3%), and the largest decrease in Bahrain (down 100.0%).
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested, per square kilometre: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rwanda | 7.22 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 58.4% | rising |
| 2 | Malawi | 3.3 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 49.6% | rising |
| 3 | Burundi | 3.24 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 4 | Nigeria | 1.66 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.9% | volatile |
| 5 | Haiti | 1.45 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 39.3% | rising |
| 6 | Uganda | 1.25 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 44.6% | rising |
| 7 | Comoros | 1.25 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 22.6% | rising |
| 8 | Tonga | 0.9347 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.2% | falling |
| 9 | Grenada | 0.7441 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 59.1% | volatile |
| 10 | Equatorial Guinea | 0.6797 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.9% | rising |
| 11 | Dominica | 0.5227 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.0% | rising |
| 12 | Sierra Leone | 0.4674 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 47.6% | volatile |
| 13 | Cuba | 0.3819 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 17.5% | falling |
| 14 | Ghana | 0.3467 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.6% | rising |
| 15 | Papua New Guinea | 0.3162 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.7% | rising |
| 16 | Philippines | 0.3043 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.3% | falling |
| 17 | Guinea | 0.3006 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.3% | volatile |
| 18 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.2953 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | rising |
| 19 | Jamaica | 0.2837 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.0% | rising |
| 20 | Solomon Islands | 0.2786 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.4% | rising |
| 21 | Madagascar | 0.2613 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 22 | China | 0.2474 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.3% | falling |
| 23 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0.2462 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 96.2% | volatile |
| 24 | Barbados | 0.2326 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 85.2% | volatile |
| 25 | Bangladesh | 0.2227 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.0% | falling |
| 26 | Cameroon | 0.1908 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 40.4% | rising |
| 27 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0.1705 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 78.6% | rising |
| 28 | Dominican Republic | 0.1655 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 29.3% | falling |
| 29 | Angola | 0.1592 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.4% | volatile |
| 30 | Zambia | 0.1293 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 107.1% | volatile |
| 31 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0.1269 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.9% | volatile |
| 32 | Mozambique | 0.1217 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 36.7% | volatile |
| 33 | Kenya | 0.0937 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 8.9% | rising |
| 34 | Benin | 0.0888 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 22.0% | falling |
| 35 | Eswatini | 0.0881 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.6% | falling |
| 36 | Japan | 0.0878 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 17.1% | volatile |
| 37 | Fiji | 0.086 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 82.4% | volatile |
| 38 | Israel | 0.0814 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 27.8% | volatile |
| 39 | Sri Lanka | 0.0723 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 21.0% | volatile |
| 40 | Zimbabwe | 0.068 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 24.5% | volatile |
| 41 | Mauritius | 0.0606 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 47.6% | volatile |
| 42 | Bahamas | 0.0539 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.0% | volatile |
| 43 | Uruguay | 0.0483 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.0% | falling |
| 44 | Honduras | 0.0422 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 293.9% | volatile |
| 45 | Ethiopia | 0.0414 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 31.3% | rising |
| 46 | Togo | 0.04 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 57.8% | volatile |
| 47 | Indonesia | 0.0387 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 55.2% | falling |
| 48 | India | 0.037 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.6% | falling |
| 49 | Burkina Faso | 0.034 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 18.6% | volatile |
| 50 | Cambodia | 0.0326 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 22.2% | rising |
| 51 | Trinidad and Tobago | 0.0314 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 60.4% | volatile |
| 52 | Mali | 0.0301 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 57.5% | volatile |
| 53 | Saint Lucia | 0.0295 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 80.4% | volatile |
| 54 | Chad | 0.0256 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 20.1% | volatile |
| 55 | South Africa | 0.0238 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 31.7% | rising |
| 56 | Liberia | 0.0227 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.7% | rising |
| 57 | Sudan | 0.0194 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 218.8% | rising |
| 58 | Paraguay | 0.0137 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.6% | falling |
| 59 | Peru | 0.0131 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.6% | rising |
| 60 | Costa Rica | 0.0131 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 689.4% | volatile |
| 61 | New Caledonia | 0.013 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 40.5% | falling |
| 62 | Senegal | 0.0128 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 133.5% | volatile |
| 63 | Palestine | 0.0123 ha per square kilometre | 2022 | down 46.0% | falling |
| 64 | Myanmar | 0.0105 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.0% | rising |
| 65 | Portugal | 0.0104 ha per square kilometre | 2017 | down 71.1% | volatile |
| 66 | Egypt | 0.0103 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.6% | volatile |
| 67 | Ecuador | 0.0084 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.9% | volatile |
| 68 | Niger | 0.0076 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 107.3% | volatile |
| 69 | Gabon | 0.0075 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.1% | rising |
| 70 | Brazil | 0.0073 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 57.9% | volatile |
| 71 | French Polynesia | 0.0069 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.0% | flat |
| 72 | Maldives | 0.0067 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 85.6% | volatile |
| 73 | El Salvador | 0.0064 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.0% | rising |
| 74 | Guatemala | 0.006 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2,827.3% | volatile |
| 75 | Malaysia | 0.0051 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 45.4% | volatile |
| 76 | New Zealand | 0.0046 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.8% | rising |
| 77 | Spain | 0.0043 ha per square kilometre | 2017 | up 62.5% | volatile |
| 78 | Congo | 0.0039 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.2% | falling |
| 79 | Argentina | 0.0034 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 29.1% | falling |
| 80 | Pakistan | 0.0032 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 68.9% | rising |
| 81 | Puerto Rico | 0.0029 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 78.3% | volatile |
| 82 | Mauritania | 0.0028 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.9% | flat |
| 83 | Chile | 0.0019 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.4% | rising |
| 84 | Mexico | 0.0019 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 54.5% | volatile |
| 85 | Belize | 0.0017 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 171.4% | volatile |
| 86 | Somalia | 0.0014 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.8% | rising |
| 87 | Italy | 0.0013 ha per square kilometre | 2017 | down 9.8% | volatile |
| 88 | Morocco | 0.0013 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 48.2% | volatile |
| 89 | Guyana | 0.001 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 46.3% | volatile |
| 90 | Greece | 0.0007 ha per square kilometre | 2017 | down 46.7% | falling |
| 91 | Bhutan | 0.0004 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 72.6% | volatile |
| 92 | Australia | 0.0003 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.8% | volatile |
| 93 | Panama | 0.0003 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | falling |
| 94 | Kuwait | 0.0003 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 44.4% | falling |
| 95 | Suriname | 0.0003 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.3% | volatile |
| 96 | Botswana | 0.0001 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 40.0% | volatile |
| 97 | Yemen | 0.0001 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.5% | volatile |
| 98 | Bahrain | 0 ha per square kilometre | 1996 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 98 | Singapore | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 0.0553 ha per square kilometre
How this figure is calculated
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested ÷ Land area (sq. km)
Computed from
- Sweet potatoes — Area harvested Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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 Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.