Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Cabo Verde
Cabo Verde: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 163 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Cabo Verde, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Cabo Verde recorded 163 ha for sweet potatoes — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 16.4% on the previous year and down 63.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Cabo Verde peaked at 3,000 ha in 1961 and was at its lowest, 144 ha, in 1972.
Cabo Verde ranks 25th of 26 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Cabo Verde, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 3,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 3,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 3,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 3,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 2,880 ha | -4.0% |
| 1967 | 2,500 ha | -13.2% |
| 1968 | 1,206 ha | -51.8% |
| 1969 | 1,950 ha | +61.7% |
| 1970 | 1,674 ha | -14.2% |
| 1971 | 1,110 ha | -33.7% |
| 1972 | 144 ha | -87.0% |
| 1973 | 730 ha | +406.9% |
| 1974 | 700 ha | -4.1% |
| 1975 | 700 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 700 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 700 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 800 ha | +14.3% |
| 1979 | 800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 2,800 ha | +250.0% |
| 1981 | 3,000 ha | +7.1% |
| 1982 | 1,000 ha | -66.7% |
| 1983 | 1,012 ha | +1.2% |
| 1984 | 1,268 ha | +25.3% |
| 1985 | 1,500 ha | +18.3% |
| 1986 | 1,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 2,000 ha | +33.3% |
| 1988 | 1,500 ha | -25.0% |
| 1989 | 1,563 ha | +4.2% |
| 1990 | 1,500 ha | -4.0% |
| 1991 | 1,050 ha | -30.0% |
| 1992 | 600 ha | -42.9% |
| 1993 | 515 ha | -14.2% |
| 1994 | 485 ha | -5.8% |
| 1995 | 466 ha | -3.9% |
| 1996 | 620 ha | +33.0% |
| 1997 | 439 ha | -29.2% |
| 1998 | 650 ha | +48.1% |
| 1999 | 720 ha | +10.8% |
| 2000 | 500 ha | -30.6% |
| 2001 | 525 ha | +5.0% |
| 2002 | 520 ha | -1.0% |
| 2003 | 510 ha | -1.9% |
| 2004 | 500 ha | -2.0% |
| 2005 | 515 ha | +3.0% |
| 2006 | 505 ha | -1.9% |
| 2007 | 490 ha | -3.0% |
| 2008 | 480 ha | -2.0% |
| 2009 | 450 ha | -6.2% |
| 2010 | 428 ha | -4.9% |
| 2011 | 419 ha | -2.1% |
| 2012 | 447 ha | +6.7% |
| 2013 | 486 ha | +8.7% |
| 2014 | 450 ha | -7.4% |
| 2015 | 350 ha | -22.2% |
| 2016 | 275 ha | -21.4% |
| 2017 | 193 ha | -29.8% |
| 2018 | 265 ha | +37.3% |
| 2019 | 195 ha | -26.4% |
| 2020 | 195 ha | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 195 ha | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 195 ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 195 ha | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 163 ha | -16.4% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Cabo Verde 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | +406.9% | 144 ha | 730 ha |
| 1980 | +250.0% | 800 ha | 2,800 ha |
| 1972 | -87.0% | 1,110 ha | 144 ha |
| 1982 | -66.7% | 3,000 ha | 1,000 ha |
| 1969 | +61.7% | 1,206 ha | 1,950 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,615 ha | 1,206 ha | 3,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 805.8 ha | 144 ha | 1,674 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,714 ha | 1,000 ha | 3,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 704.5 ha | 439 ha | 1,500 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 499.5 ha | 450 ha | 525 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 350.8 ha | 193 ha | 486 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 188.6 ha | 163 ha | 195 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Cabo Verde?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Cabo Verde was 163 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Cabo Verde?
- The highest recorded value was 3,000 ha in 1961.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Cabo Verde?
- The lowest recorded value was 144 ha in 1972.
- How does Cabo Verde rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Cabo Verde ranks 25th out of 26 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Cabo Verde?
- Over the last ten years it is down 63.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Cabo Verde 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.