Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Caribbean
Caribbean: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 98,853 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Caribbean, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Caribbean stood at 98,853 ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 7.0% on the previous year and down 28.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Caribbean peaked at 182,911 ha in 2010 and was at its lowest, 75,074 ha, in 2020.
Caribbean ranks 15th of 126 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 117,239 ha | 85,426 ha | 130,122 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 140,926 ha | 130,781 ha | 153,885 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 131,337 ha | 119,459 ha | 149,519 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 137,321 ha | 124,327 ha | 158,770 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 137,598 ha | 113,935 ha | 165,273 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 132,695 ha | 96,363 ha | 182,911 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 85,273 ha | 75,074 ha | 98,853 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Caribbean
- 12 Democratic Republic of the Congo 124,893 ha compare
- 13 India 111,866 ha compare
- 14 Mozambique 100,470 ha compare
- 16 Cameroon 93,378 ha compare
- 17 Guinea 83,476 ha compare
- 18 Philippines 80,901 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Caribbean
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 29,645 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 150,870 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 2.72 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 71 kg/An (2024)
- Cabbages — Area harvested 8,527 ha (2024)
- Cabbages — Yield 19,733 kg/ha (2024)
- Cabbages — Production 168,261 t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production 7,589 t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 1.91 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 13,712 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Caribbean?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Caribbean was 98,853 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 182,911 ha in 2010.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 75,074 ha in 2020.
- How does Caribbean rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Caribbean ranks 15th out of 126 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is down 28.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Caribbean 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.