Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Brazil
Brazil: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 65,178 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Brazil, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Brazil recorded 65,178 ha for sweet potatoes — area harvested in 2024.
That represents a change of up 6.9% on the previous year and up 64.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Brazil peaked at 185,068 ha in 1969 and was at its lowest, 38,602 ha, in 2013.
Brazil ranks 24th of 126 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 165,460 ha | 137,370 ha | 185,068 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 144,320 ha | 91,577 ha | 183,143 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 77,702 ha | 66,979 ha | 84,214 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 53,272 ha | 42,811 ha | 62,629 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 44,504 ha | 42,241 ha | 46,844 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 45,945 ha | 38,602 ha | 57,340 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 60,360 ha | 57,800 ha | 65,178 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Brazil
- Agriculture share gdp 6.09 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.09 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2025)
- Rural population 11.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth -2.0% (2025)
- Rural population 25.16 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 138.76 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 7.05 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Brazil?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Brazil was 65,178 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Brazil?
- The highest recorded value was 185,068 ha in 1969.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Brazil?
- The lowest recorded value was 38,602 ha in 2013.
- How does Brazil rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Brazil ranks 24th out of 126 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Brazil?
- Over the last ten years it is up 64.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Brazil 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.