Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in El Salvador
El Salvador: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 132 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in El Salvador, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — area harvested in El Salvador stood at 132 ha.
That represents a change of up 5.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in El Salvador peaked at 134 ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 45 ha, in 1961.
That places El Salvador 87th out of 113 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in El Salvador, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 45 ha | — |
| 1962 | 45 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 46 ha | +2.2% |
| 1964 | 46 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 48 ha | +4.3% |
| 1966 | 48 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 50 ha | +4.2% |
| 1968 | 50 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 50 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 50 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 55 ha | +10.0% |
| 1972 | 55 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 56 ha | +1.8% |
| 1974 | 58 ha | +3.6% |
| 1975 | 60 ha | +3.4% |
| 1976 | 60 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 63 ha | +5.0% |
| 1978 | 60 ha | -4.8% |
| 1979 | 60 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 60 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 60 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 60 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 60 ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 60 ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 60 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 60 ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 60 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 60 ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 71 ha | +18.3% |
| 1990 | 70 ha | -1.4% |
| 1991 | 71 ha | +1.4% |
| 1992 | 75 ha | +5.6% |
| 1993 | 75 ha | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 80 ha | +6.7% |
| 1995 | 80 ha | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 76 ha | -5.0% |
| 1997 | 56 ha | -26.3% |
| 1998 | 85 ha | +51.8% |
| 1999 | 83 ha | -2.4% |
| 2000 | 87 ha | +4.8% |
| 2001 | 87 ha | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 89 ha | +2.3% |
| 2003 | 91 ha | +2.2% |
| 2004 | 92 ha | +1.1% |
| 2005 | 95 ha | +3.3% |
| 2006 | 96 ha | +1.1% |
| 2007 | 90 ha | -6.2% |
| 2008 | 101 ha | +12.2% |
| 2009 | 104 ha | +3.0% |
| 2010 | 107 ha | +2.9% |
| 2011 | 110 ha | +2.8% |
| 2012 | 120 ha | +9.1% |
| 2013 | 120 ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 125 ha | +4.2% |
| 2015 | 122 ha | -2.4% |
| 2016 | 125 ha | +2.5% |
| 2017 | 128 ha | +2.4% |
| 2018 | 131 ha | +2.3% |
| 2019 | 134 ha | +2.3% |
| 2020 | 131 ha | -2.2% |
| 2021 | 132 ha | +0.8% |
| 2022 | 133 ha | +0.8% |
| 2023 | 132 ha | -0.8% |
| 2024 | 132 ha | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 47.56 ha | 45 ha | 50 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 57.7 ha | 50 ha | 63 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 61.1 ha | 60 ha | 71 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 75.1 ha | 56 ha | 85 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 93.2 ha | 87 ha | 104 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 122.2 ha | 107 ha | 134 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 132 ha | 131 ha | 133 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near El Salvador
- 84 Mauritius 193 ha compare
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- 88 Greece 90 ha compare
- 89 Martinique 78 ha compare
- 90 Palestine, State of 74 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for El Salvador
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.84 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.044 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 253.9 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.41 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2448 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 4.4 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 4.4 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in El Salvador?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in El Salvador was 132 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in El Salvador?
- The highest recorded value was 134 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in El Salvador?
- The lowest recorded value was 45 ha in 1961.
- How does El Salvador rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- El Salvador ranks 87th out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in El Salvador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this El Salvador 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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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.