Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Burundi
Burundi: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 80,064 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Burundi, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Burundi stood at 80,064 ha.
That represents a change of down 3.7% on the previous year and up 21.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Burundi peaked at 138,000 ha in 2009 and was at its lowest, 52,000 ha, in 1974.
That places Burundi 15th out of 113 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Burundi, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 60,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 60,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 60,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 62,000 ha | +3.3% |
| 1965 | 62,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 62,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 63,000 ha | +1.6% |
| 1968 | 63,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 63,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 60,000 ha | -4.8% |
| 1971 | 62,000 ha | +3.3% |
| 1972 | 56,000 ha | -9.7% |
| 1973 | 63,000 ha | +12.5% |
| 1974 | 52,000 ha | -17.5% |
| 1975 | 63,000 ha | +21.2% |
| 1976 | 64,000 ha | +1.6% |
| 1977 | 65,000 ha | +1.6% |
| 1978 | 85,000 ha | +30.8% |
| 1979 | 75,000 ha | -11.8% |
| 1980 | 79,000 ha | +5.3% |
| 1981 | 78,000 ha | -1.3% |
| 1982 | 77,000 ha | -1.3% |
| 1983 | 79,000 ha | +2.6% |
| 1984 | 81,000 ha | +2.5% |
| 1985 | 87,000 ha | +7.4% |
| 1986 | 95,000 ha | +9.2% |
| 1987 | 98,000 ha | +3.2% |
| 1988 | 100,000 ha | +2.0% |
| 1989 | 102,400 ha | +2.4% |
| 1990 | 103,000 ha | +0.6% |
| 1991 | 105,000 ha | +1.9% |
| 1992 | 110,000 ha | +4.8% |
| 1993 | 105,000 ha | -4.5% |
| 1994 | 100,000 ha | -4.8% |
| 1995 | 110,000 ha | +10.0% |
| 1996 | 108,000 ha | -1.8% |
| 1997 | 110,000 ha | +1.9% |
| 1998 | 100,000 ha | -9.1% |
| 1999 | 112,000 ha | +12.0% |
| 2000 | 110,000 ha | -1.8% |
| 2001 | 120,000 ha | +9.1% |
| 2002 | 124,000 ha | +3.3% |
| 2003 | 124,500 ha | +0.4% |
| 2004 | 125,000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2005 | 130,000 ha | +4.0% |
| 2006 | 125,000 ha | -3.8% |
| 2007 | 131,000 ha | +4.8% |
| 2008 | 136,000 ha | +3.8% |
| 2009 | 138,000 ha | +1.5% |
| 2010 | 134,223 ha | -2.7% |
| 2011 | 131,333 ha | -2.2% |
| 2012 | 101,421 ha | -22.8% |
| 2013 | 80,334 ha | -20.8% |
| 2014 | 66,029 ha | -17.8% |
| 2015 | 58,620 ha | -11.2% |
| 2016 | 54,584 ha | -6.9% |
| 2017 | 58,303 ha | +6.8% |
| 2018 | 62,364 ha | +7.0% |
| 2019 | 93,578 ha | +50.1% |
| 2020 | 93,724 ha | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 101,967 ha | +8.8% |
| 2022 | 95,998 ha | -5.9% |
| 2023 | 83,149 ha | -13.4% |
| 2024 | 80,064 ha | -3.7% |
Burundi compared with similar countries
- Burundi's 80,064 ha is above the median for low income countries, which is 38,904 ha, 2.1× the median. (17 countries reporting)
- Burundi's 80,064 ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 28,960 ha, 2.8× the median. (36 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Burundi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | +50.1% | 62,364 ha | 93,578 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 61,667 ha | 60,000 ha | 63,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 64,500 ha | 52,000 ha | 85,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 87,640 ha | 77,000 ha | 102,400 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 106,300 ha | 100,000 ha | 112,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 126,350 ha | 110,000 ha | 138,000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 84,079 ha | 54,584 ha | 134,223 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 90,980 ha | 80,064 ha | 101,967 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Burundi
- 12 Cameroon 93,378 ha compare
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- 13 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1,092 ha compare
- 13 Guinea 83,476 ha compare
- 14 Philippines 80,901 ha compare
- 14 Caribbean 98,853 ha compare
- 14 Polynesia 719 ha compare
- 15 Micronesia (Federated States of) 571 ha compare
- 15 Micronesia 571 ha compare
- 16 Ghana 78,611 ha compare
- 17 Indonesia 68,630 ha compare
- 18 Côte d'Ivoire 36,102 ha compare
- 18 Kenya 68,449 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Burundi
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 8.36 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3429 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 80.18 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.27 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0032 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7431 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 34.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 34.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.5% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Burundi?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Burundi was 80,064 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Burundi?
- The highest recorded value was 138,000 ha in 2009.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Burundi?
- The lowest recorded value was 52,000 ha in 1974.
- How does Burundi rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Burundi ranks 15th out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Burundi?
- Over the last ten years it is up 21.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Burundi 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.