Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Comoros
Comoros: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 2,244 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Comoros, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Comoros stood at 2,244 ha.
The figure is down 3.3% on the previous year and down 33.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Comoros peaked at 3,353 ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 900 ha, in 1961.
That places Comoros 65th 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 | 955.56 ha | 900 ha | 1,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,375 ha | 1,000 ha | 1,800 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,838 ha | 1,380 ha | 2,200 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,148 ha | 2,000 ha | 2,284 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,612 ha | 2,300 ha | 3,043 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,027 ha | 2,681 ha | 3,353 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,372 ha | 2,244 ha | 2,570 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Comoros
More agriculture & rural data for Comoros
- Agriculture share gdp 36.58 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 36.58 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2023)
- Rural population 66.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.2% (2025)
- Rural population 583,195 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 36.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 663.86 million current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 80,029 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Comoros?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Comoros was 2,244 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Comoros?
- The highest recorded value was 3,353 ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Comoros?
- The lowest recorded value was 900 ha in 1961.
- How does Comoros rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Comoros ranks 65th out of 126 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Comoros?
- Over the last ten years it is down 33.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Comoros 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.