Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Benin
Benin: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 12,318 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Benin, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Benin recorded 12,318 ha for sweet potatoes — area harvested in 2024.
That represents a change of up 23.0% on the previous year and up 12.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Benin peaked at 33,012 ha in 2007 and was at its lowest, 4,909 ha, in 1964.
That places Benin 37th out of 113 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Benin, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7,314 ha | — |
| 1962 | 17,440 ha | +138.4% |
| 1963 | 14,880 ha | -14.7% |
| 1964 | 4,909 ha | -67.0% |
| 1965 | 11,000 ha | +124.1% |
| 1966 | 13,400 ha | +21.8% |
| 1967 | 14,400 ha | +7.5% |
| 1968 | 16,400 ha | +13.9% |
| 1969 | 18,298 ha | +11.6% |
| 1970 | 17,740 ha | -3.0% |
| 1971 | 15,226 ha | -14.2% |
| 1972 | 14,738 ha | -3.2% |
| 1973 | 13,263 ha | -10.0% |
| 1974 | 12,851 ha | -3.1% |
| 1975 | 13,750 ha | +7.0% |
| 1976 | 14,250 ha | +3.6% |
| 1977 | 15,000 ha | +5.3% |
| 1978 | 16,000 ha | +6.7% |
| 1979 | 15,000 ha | -6.2% |
| 1980 | 11,700 ha | -22.0% |
| 1981 | 6,509 ha | -44.4% |
| 1982 | 5,500 ha | -15.5% |
| 1983 | 6,374 ha | +15.9% |
| 1984 | 7,268 ha | +14.0% |
| 1985 | 8,182 ha | +12.6% |
| 1986 | 6,692 ha | -18.2% |
| 1987 | 6,715 ha | +0.3% |
| 1988 | 8,154 ha | +21.4% |
| 1989 | 7,162 ha | -12.2% |
| 1990 | 6,654 ha | -7.1% |
| 1991 | 6,250 ha | -6.1% |
| 1992 | 7,295 ha | +16.7% |
| 1993 | 7,330 ha | +0.5% |
| 1994 | 8,873 ha | +21.1% |
| 1995 | 9,694 ha | +9.3% |
| 1996 | 11,272 ha | +16.3% |
| 1997 | 10,570 ha | -6.2% |
| 1998 | 8,253 ha | -21.9% |
| 1999 | 10,885 ha | +31.9% |
| 2000 | 12,474 ha | +14.6% |
| 2001 | 10,716 ha | -14.1% |
| 2002 | 13,123 ha | +22.5% |
| 2003 | 10,523 ha | -19.8% |
| 2004 | 11,163 ha | +6.1% |
| 2005 | 12,826 ha | +14.9% |
| 2006 | 14,004 ha | +9.2% |
| 2007 | 33,012 ha | +135.7% |
| 2008 | 16,183 ha | -51.0% |
| 2009 | 11,471 ha | -29.1% |
| 2010 | 18,407 ha | +60.5% |
| 2011 | 8,107 ha | -56.0% |
| 2012 | 10,192 ha | +25.7% |
| 2013 | 12,843 ha | +26.0% |
| 2014 | 10,938 ha | -14.8% |
| 2015 | 10,016 ha | -8.4% |
| 2016 | 9,888 ha | -1.3% |
| 2017 | 9,573 ha | -3.2% |
| 2018 | 9,412 ha | -1.7% |
| 2019 | 9,468 ha | +0.6% |
| 2020 | 10,131 ha | +7.0% |
| 2021 | 9,947 ha | -1.8% |
| 2022 | 10,597 ha | +6.5% |
| 2023 | 10,016 ha | -5.5% |
| 2024 | 12,318 ha | +23.0% |
Benin compared with similar countries
- Benin's 12,318 ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 9,882 ha, 1.2× the median. (28 countries reporting)
- Benin's 12,318 ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 28,960 ha, 43% of the median. (36 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Benin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | +138.4% | 7,314 ha | 17,440 ha |
| 2007 | +135.7% | 14,004 ha | 33,012 ha |
| 1965 | +124.1% | 4,909 ha | 11,000 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 13,116 ha | 4,909 ha | 18,298 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 14,782 ha | 12,851 ha | 17,740 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,426 ha | 5,500 ha | 11,700 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,708 ha | 6,250 ha | 11,272 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 14,550 ha | 10,523 ha | 33,012 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,884 ha | 8,107 ha | 18,407 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,602 ha | 9,947 ha | 12,318 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Benin
- 34 Equatorial Guinea 19,150 ha compare
- 35 Niger 16,311 ha compare
- 36 Peru 16,290 ha compare
- 38 Egypt 11,989 ha compare
- 39 Sudan (former) 10,500 ha compare
- 40 Burkina Faso 10,122 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Benin
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 8.16 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2292 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 380.06 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.6697 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4664 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 22.9% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 22.9% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 52.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Benin?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Benin was 12,318 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Benin?
- The highest recorded value was 33,012 ha in 2007.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Benin?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,909 ha in 1964.
- How does Benin rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Benin ranks 37th out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Benin?
- Over the last ten years it is up 12.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Benin 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.