Sweet potatoes — Area harvested, per unit of GDP by country
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested divided by GDP (current US$), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Countries reporting
99
Highest
0 ha per US$ of GDP
Malawi
Lowest
0 ha per US$ of GDP
Singapore
Median
0 ha per US$ of GDP
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
5,411
What the numbers show
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested, per unit of GDP is currently reported for 99 countries. The highest value is 0 ha per US$ of GDP in Malawi; the lowest is 0 ha per US$ of GDP in Singapore.
The median across all reporting countries is 0 ha per US$ of GDP, and the mean is 0 ha per US$ of GDP.
Over the past decade 31 countries rose and 67 fell. The largest increase was in Guatemala (up 1,119.6%), and the largest decrease in Bahrain (down 100.0%).
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested, per unit of GDP: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malawi | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 17.9% | flat |
| 2 | Burundi | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 8.0% | volatile |
| 3 | Rwanda | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 31.4% | volatile |
| 4 | Madagascar | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 27.1% | volatile |
| 5 | Nigeria | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 128.1% | volatile |
| 6 | Solomon Islands | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 9.1% | volatile |
| 7 | Papua New Guinea | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 18.3% | volatile |
| 8 | Sierra Leone | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 22.4% | volatile |
| 9 | Mozambique | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 11.0% | volatile |
| 10 | Uganda | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 70.4% | volatile |
| 11 | Guinea-Bissau | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 10.8% | falling |
| 12 | Guinea | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 8.9% | volatile |
| 13 | Haiti | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 65.0% | volatile |
| 14 | Chad | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 279.9% | volatile |
| 15 | Angola | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 76.8% | volatile |
| 16 | Cameroon | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 3.5% | volatile |
| 17 | Equatorial Guinea | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 79.4% | volatile |
| 18 | Mali | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 2.6% | volatile |
| 19 | Comoros | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 52.2% | falling |
| 20 | Zambia | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 30.1% | volatile |
| 21 | Tonga | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 25.2% | volatile |
| 22 | Ghana | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 30.9% | volatile |
| 23 | Niger | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 142.7% | volatile |
| 24 | Sudan | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 250.2% | rising |
| 25 | Zimbabwe | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 47.2% | volatile |
| 26 | Benin | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 30.4% | volatile |
| 27 | Kenya | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 36.4% | volatile |
| 28 | Dominica | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 18.6% | volatile |
| 29 | Liberia | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 30.3% | volatile |
| 30 | Burkina Faso | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 5.1% | volatile |
| 31 | Cuba | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2020 | down 76.7% | volatile |
| 32 | Eswatini | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 2.0% | volatile |
| 33 | Ethiopia | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 77.0% | volatile |
| 34 | Mauritania | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 37.1% | volatile |
| 35 | Fiji | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 35.3% | volatile |
| 36 | Togo | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 68.5% | volatile |
| 37 | Philippines | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 41.4% | volatile |
| 38 | Jamaica | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 14.2% | volatile |
| 39 | Grenada | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 67.5% | volatile |
| 40 | Honduras | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 0.6% | volatile |
| 41 | Paraguay | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 2.8% | volatile |
| 42 | China | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 50.0% | volatile |
| 43 | Cambodia | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 54.1% | volatile |
| 44 | Uruguay | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 22.0% | volatile |
| 45 | Myanmar | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 10.8% | volatile |
| 46 | Gabon | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 16.9% | volatile |
| 47 | Congo | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 25.1% | volatile |
| 48 | Dominican Republic | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 2.8% | volatile |
| 49 | Senegal | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 50.8% | volatile |
| 50 | Somalia | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 48.2% | volatile |
| 51 | South Africa | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 21.5% | volatile |
| 52 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 98.1% | volatile |
| 53 | Bangladesh | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 58.5% | volatile |
| 54 | Peru | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 30.4% | volatile |
| 55 | Indonesia | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 72.1% | volatile |
| 56 | Sri Lanka | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 33.0% | volatile |
| 57 | Bahamas | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 23.4% | volatile |
| 58 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 97.9% | volatile |
| 59 | New Caledonia | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 34.3% | volatile |
| 60 | Egypt | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 5.8% | volatile |
| 61 | Brazil | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 84.4% | volatile |
| 62 | India | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 42.7% | volatile |
| 63 | Ecuador | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 16.4% | volatile |
| 64 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 54.0% | volatile |
| 65 | Argentina | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 41.9% | volatile |
| 66 | Mauritius | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 189.7% | volatile |
| 67 | Belize | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 137.3% | volatile |
| 68 | Suriname | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 0.0% | volatile |
| 69 | Barbados | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 1.6% | volatile |
| 70 | Guyana | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 83.2% | volatile |
| 71 | Japan | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 0.4% | volatile |
| 72 | Malaysia | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 17.6% | volatile |
| 73 | Bhutan | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 73.4% | volatile |
| 74 | Saint Lucia | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 82.2% | volatile |
| 75 | Guatemala | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 1,119.6% | volatile |
| 76 | Trinidad and Tobago | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 41.8% | volatile |
| 77 | Costa Rica | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 57.6% | volatile |
| 78 | New Zealand | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 28.5% | volatile |
| 79 | Chile | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 13.6% | volatile |
| 80 | Portugal | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2017 | down 68.5% | volatile |
| 81 | Palestine | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2022 | down 65.6% | volatile |
| 82 | El Salvador | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 31.6% | volatile |
| 83 | French Polynesia | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 1.9% | falling |
| 84 | Morocco | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 57.4% | volatile |
| 85 | Pakistan | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 42.7% | volatile |
| 86 | Israel | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 74.4% | volatile |
| 87 | Botswana | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 53.3% | volatile |
| 88 | Yemen | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2018 | up 21.4% | volatile |
| 89 | Mexico | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | up 4.1% | volatile |
| 90 | Spain | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2017 | up 81.7% | volatile |
| 91 | Australia | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 5.9% | volatile |
| 92 | Greece | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2017 | down 16.5% | volatile |
| 93 | Maldives | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 86.9% | volatile |
| 94 | Panama | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 57.7% | falling |
| 95 | Puerto Rico | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 32.6% | volatile |
| 96 | Italy | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2017 | up 1.8% | volatile |
| 97 | Kuwait | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | down 66.7% | falling |
| 98 | Bahrain | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 1996 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 98 | Singapore | 0 ha per US$ of GDP | 2024 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 0 ha per US$ of GDP
How this figure is calculated
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested divided by GDP (current US$), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested ÷ GDP (current US$)
Computed from
- Sweet potatoes — Area harvested Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- GDP Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks
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 GDP (current US$), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.