Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Chile
Chile: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 1,445 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Chile, 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 Chile is 1,445 ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 0.1% on the previous year and up 9.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Chile peaked at 1,451 ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 700 ha, in 1961.
That places Chile 75th out of 126 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 | 900 ha | 700 ha | 1,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,020 ha | 1,000 ha | 1,200 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,000 ha | 1,000 ha | 1,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,116 ha | 880 ha | 1,160 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,213 ha | 1,071 ha | 1,319 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,344 ha | 1,300 ha | 1,431 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,446 ha | 1,443 ha | 1,451 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Chile
- Agriculture share gdp 3.45 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 3.45 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 4.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 10.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.2% (2025)
- Rural population 2.15 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 12.34 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 3,031 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Chile?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Chile was 1,445 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Chile?
- The highest recorded value was 1,451 ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Chile?
- The lowest recorded value was 700 ha in 1961.
- How does Chile rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Chile ranks 75th out of 126 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Chile?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Chile 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.