Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Australia
Australia: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 2,134 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Australia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Australia recorded 2,134 ha for sweet potatoes — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 3.4% on the previous year and up 12.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Australia peaked at 2,542 ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 166 ha, in 1966.
Australia ranks 61st of 113 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Australia, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 192 ha | — |
| 1962 | 190 ha | -1.0% |
| 1963 | 200 ha | +5.3% |
| 1964 | 178 ha | -11.0% |
| 1965 | 202 ha | +13.5% |
| 1966 | 166 ha | -17.8% |
| 1967 | 286 ha | +72.3% |
| 1968 | 249 ha | -12.9% |
| 1969 | 245 ha | -1.6% |
| 1970 | 238 ha | -2.9% |
| 1971 | 265 ha | +11.3% |
| 1972 | 297 ha | +12.1% |
| 1973 | 293 ha | -1.3% |
| 1974 | 263 ha | -10.2% |
| 1975 | 221 ha | -16.0% |
| 1976 | 277 ha | +25.3% |
| 1977 | 240 ha | -13.4% |
| 1978 | 246 ha | +2.5% |
| 1979 | 277 ha | +12.6% |
| 1980 | 324 ha | +17.0% |
| 1981 | 330 ha | +1.9% |
| 1982 | 330 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 291 ha | -11.8% |
| 1984 | 323 ha | +11.0% |
| 1985 | 340 ha | +5.3% |
| 1986 | 336 ha | -1.2% |
| 1987 | 377 ha | +12.2% |
| 1988 | 387 ha | +2.7% |
| 1989 | 424 ha | +9.6% |
| 1990 | 444 ha | +4.7% |
| 1991 | 438 ha | -1.4% |
| 1992 | 465 ha | +6.2% |
| 1993 | 570 ha | +22.6% |
| 1994 | 593 ha | +4.0% |
| 1995 | 516 ha | -13.0% |
| 1996 | 384 ha | -25.6% |
| 1997 | 450 ha | +17.2% |
| 1998 | 650 ha | +44.4% |
| 1999 | 800 ha | +23.1% |
| 2000 | 850 ha | +6.2% |
| 2001 | 900 ha | +5.9% |
| 2002 | 950 ha | +5.6% |
| 2003 | 1,100 ha | +15.8% |
| 2004 | 1,200 ha | +9.1% |
| 2005 | 1,250 ha | +4.2% |
| 2006 | 1,589 ha | +27.1% |
| 2007 | 1,419 ha | -10.7% |
| 2008 | 1,441 ha | +1.6% |
| 2009 | 1,693 ha | +17.5% |
| 2010 | 1,673 ha | -1.2% |
| 2011 | 1,797 ha | +7.4% |
| 2012 | 1,870 ha | +4.1% |
| 2013 | 1,923 ha | +2.8% |
| 2014 | 1,903 ha | -1.0% |
| 2015 | 2,058 ha | +8.1% |
| 2016 | 2,152 ha | +4.6% |
| 2017 | 2,249 ha | +4.5% |
| 2018 | 2,343 ha | +4.2% |
| 2019 | 2,434 ha | +3.9% |
| 2020 | 2,516 ha | +3.4% |
| 2021 | 2,542 ha | +1.0% |
| 2022 | 2,274 ha | -10.5% |
| 2023 | 2,210 ha | -2.8% |
| 2024 | 2,134 ha | -3.4% |
Australia compared with similar countries
- Australia's 2,134 ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 239 ha, 8.9× the median. (24 countries reporting)
- Australia's 2,134 ha is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 4,397 ha, 49% of the median. (16 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Australia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | +72.3% | 166 ha | 286 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 212 ha | 166 ha | 286 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 261.7 ha | 221 ha | 297 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 346.2 ha | 291 ha | 424 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 531 ha | 384 ha | 800 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,239 ha | 850 ha | 1,693 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,040 ha | 1,673 ha | 2,434 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,335 ha | 2,134 ha | 2,542 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Australia
More agriculture & rural data for Australia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.97 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0227 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,476 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.5855 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1228 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 2.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 2.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Australia?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Australia was 2,134 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Australia?
- The highest recorded value was 2,542 ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Australia?
- The lowest recorded value was 166 ha in 1966.
- How does Australia rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Australia ranks 61st out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Australia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 12.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Australia 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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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.