Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 31 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Antigua and Barbuda, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — area harvested in Antigua and Barbuda is 31 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 58.7% on the previous year and down 27.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Antigua and Barbuda peaked at 75 ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 16 ha, in 2020.
Antigua and Barbuda ranks 100th of 113 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 in Antigua and Barbuda, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 30 ha | — |
| 1962 | 30 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 30 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 30 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 30 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 30 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 30 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 30 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 30 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 31 ha | +3.3% |
| 1971 | 32 ha | +3.2% |
| 1972 | 33 ha | +3.1% |
| 1973 | 35 ha | +6.1% |
| 1974 | 18 ha | -48.6% |
| 1975 | 38 ha | +111.1% |
| 1976 | 45 ha | +18.4% |
| 1977 | 18 ha | -60.0% |
| 1978 | 40 ha | +122.2% |
| 1979 | 37 ha | -7.5% |
| 1980 | 54 ha | +45.9% |
| 1981 | 58 ha | +7.4% |
| 1982 | 31 ha | -46.6% |
| 1983 | 52 ha | +67.7% |
| 1984 | 18 ha | -65.4% |
| 1985 | 18 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 25 ha | +38.9% |
| 1987 | 28 ha | +12.0% |
| 1988 | 30 ha | +7.1% |
| 1989 | 28 ha | -6.7% |
| 1990 | 26 ha | -7.1% |
| 1991 | 28 ha | +7.7% |
| 1992 | 25 ha | -10.7% |
| 1993 | 25 ha | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 25 ha | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 24 ha | -4.0% |
| 1996 | 26 ha | +8.3% |
| 1997 | 26 ha | +0.0% |
| 1998 | 26 ha | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 26 ha | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 25 ha | -3.8% |
| 2001 | 24 ha | -4.0% |
| 2002 | 28 ha | +16.7% |
| 2003 | 30 ha | +7.1% |
| 2004 | 35 ha | +16.7% |
| 2005 | 38 ha | +8.6% |
| 2006 | 40 ha | +5.3% |
| 2007 | 43 ha | +7.5% |
| 2008 | 45 ha | +4.7% |
| 2009 | 43 ha | -4.4% |
| 2010 | 43 ha | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 43 ha | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 40 ha | -7.0% |
| 2013 | 42 ha | +5.0% |
| 2014 | 43 ha | +2.4% |
| 2015 | 43 ha | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 41 ha | -4.7% |
| 2017 | 36 ha | -12.2% |
| 2018 | 29 ha | -19.4% |
| 2019 | 25 ha | -13.8% |
| 2020 | 16 ha | -36.0% |
| 2021 | 68 ha | +325.0% |
| 2022 | 36 ha | -47.1% |
| 2023 | 75 ha | +108.3% |
| 2024 | 31 ha | -58.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 30 ha | 30 ha | 30 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 32.7 ha | 18 ha | 45 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 34.2 ha | 18 ha | 58 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 25.7 ha | 24 ha | 28 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 35.1 ha | 24 ha | 45 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 38.5 ha | 25 ha | 43 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 45.2 ha | 16 ha | 75 ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -0.2764 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0149 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 368.76 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.543 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7567 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 1.49 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.49 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.1% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Antigua and Barbuda?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Antigua and Barbuda was 31 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Antigua and Barbuda?
- The highest recorded value was 75 ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Antigua and Barbuda?
- The lowest recorded value was 16 ha in 2020.
- How does Antigua and Barbuda rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Antigua and Barbuda ranks 100th out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Antigua and Barbuda?
- Over the last ten years it is down 27.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Antigua and Barbuda data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sweet potatoes — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.