Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Cuba
Cuba: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 36,422 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Cuba, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Cuba recorded 36,422 ha for sweet potatoes — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 8.1% on the previous year and down 10.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Cuba peaked at 80,487 ha in 1992 and was at its lowest, 32,000 ha, in 1961.
That places Cuba 25th out of 113 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Cuba, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 32,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 46,000 ha | +43.8% |
| 1963 | 55,000 ha | +19.6% |
| 1964 | 60,000 ha | +9.1% |
| 1965 | 60,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 60,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 60,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 62,000 ha | +3.3% |
| 1969 | 62,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 63,000 ha | +1.6% |
| 1971 | 63,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 63,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 63,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 64,000 ha | +1.6% |
| 1975 | 65,000 ha | +1.6% |
| 1976 | 66,000 ha | +1.5% |
| 1977 | 67,000 ha | +1.5% |
| 1978 | 75,000 ha | +11.9% |
| 1979 | 73,000 ha | -2.7% |
| 1980 | 50,300 ha | -31.1% |
| 1981 | 45,000 ha | -10.5% |
| 1982 | 52,200 ha | +16.0% |
| 1983 | 47,300 ha | -9.4% |
| 1984 | 36,000 ha | -23.9% |
| 1985 | 41,600 ha | +15.6% |
| 1986 | 36,800 ha | -11.5% |
| 1987 | 46,900 ha | +27.4% |
| 1988 | 47,700 ha | +1.7% |
| 1989 | 53,400 ha | +11.9% |
| 1990 | 54,000 ha | +1.1% |
| 1991 | 55,248 ha | +2.3% |
| 1992 | 80,487 ha | +45.7% |
| 1993 | 63,486 ha | -21.1% |
| 1994 | 72,693 ha | +14.5% |
| 1995 | 67,922 ha | -6.6% |
| 1996 | 63,319 ha | -6.8% |
| 1997 | 62,705 ha | -1.0% |
| 1998 | 69,404 ha | +10.7% |
| 1999 | 53,075 ha | -23.5% |
| 2000 | 53,691 ha | +1.2% |
| 2001 | 60,411 ha | +12.5% |
| 2002 | 64,254 ha | +6.4% |
| 2003 | 70,950 ha | +10.4% |
| 2004 | 72,972 ha | +2.8% |
| 2005 | 74,255 ha | +1.8% |
| 2006 | 47,123 ha | -36.5% |
| 2007 | 64,385 ha | +36.6% |
| 2008 | 58,934 ha | -8.5% |
| 2009 | 78,496 ha | +33.2% |
| 2010 | 79,792 ha | +1.7% |
| 2011 | 45,638 ha | -42.8% |
| 2012 | 47,522 ha | +4.1% |
| 2013 | 48,273 ha | +1.6% |
| 2014 | 40,683 ha | -15.7% |
| 2015 | 55,682 ha | +36.9% |
| 2016 | 54,513 ha | -2.1% |
| 2017 | 47,617 ha | -12.7% |
| 2018 | 55,040 ha | +15.6% |
| 2019 | 42,575 ha | -22.6% |
| 2020 | 33,453 ha | -21.4% |
| 2021 | 37,046 ha | +10.7% |
| 2022 | 32,322 ha | -12.8% |
| 2023 | 39,645 ha | +22.7% |
| 2024 | 36,422 ha | -8.1% |
Cuba compared with similar countries
- Cuba's 36,422 ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 2,598 ha, 14.0× the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Cuba's 36,422 ha is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 565 ha, 64.5× the median. (30 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 55,222 ha | 32,000 ha | 62,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 66,200 ha | 63,000 ha | 75,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 45,720 ha | 36,000 ha | 53,400 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 64,234 ha | 53,075 ha | 80,487 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 64,547 ha | 47,123 ha | 78,496 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 51,734 ha | 40,683 ha | 79,792 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 35,778 ha | 32,322 ha | 39,645 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Cuba
More agriculture & rural data for Cuba
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -19.64 % change on previous year (2020)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0276 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2020)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 265.29 current US$ per person (2020)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.6522 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2020)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2277 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.2% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 1.2% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.5% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2022)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Cuba?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Cuba was 36,422 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Cuba?
- The highest recorded value was 80,487 ha in 1992.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Cuba?
- The lowest recorded value was 32,000 ha in 1961.
- How does Cuba rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Cuba ranks 25th out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Cuba?
- Over the last ten years it is down 10.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Cuba 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.