Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Cambodia
Cambodia: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 5,695 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Cambodia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — area harvested in Cambodia is 5,695 ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 1.0% on the previous year and down 3.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Cambodia peaked at 11,442 ha in 2010 and was at its lowest, 1,400 ha, in 1967.
That places Cambodia 48th out of 111 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,389 ha | 1,400 ha | 3,800 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,210 ha | 1,900 ha | 6,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,000 ha | 5,000 ha | 11,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,203 ha | 8,000 ha | 10,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,288 ha | 7,055 ha | 9,700 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,935 ha | 3,400 ha | 11,442 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,743 ha | 5,215 ha | 6,116 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Cambodia
More agriculture & rural data for Cambodia
- Agriculture share gdp 16.11 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.11 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 3.0% (2024)
- Rural population 58.9% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.8% (2025)
- Rural population 10.51 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.26 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 374,923 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Cambodia?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Cambodia was 5,695 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Cambodia?
- The highest recorded value was 11,442 ha in 2010.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Cambodia?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,400 ha in 1967.
- How does Cambodia rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Cambodia ranks 48th out of 111 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Cambodia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cambodia 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.