Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 19,150 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Equatorial Guinea, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Equatorial Guinea recorded 19,150 ha for sweet potatoes — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 0.4% on the previous year and up 9.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Equatorial Guinea peaked at 19,150 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 5,000 ha, in 1979.
That places Equatorial Guinea 40th 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 | 6,111 ha | 6,000 ha | 7,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,150 ha | 5,000 ha | 8,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,800 ha | 5,000 ha | 8,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 12,440 ha | 8,093 ha | 14,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 15,126 ha | 12,120 ha | 17,582 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 18,361 ha | 17,528 ha | 19,051 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 18,892 ha | 18,455 ha | 19,150 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Equatorial Guinea
- 37 Bangladesh 27,953 ha compare
- 38 Republic of Korea 20,358 ha compare
- 39 Ethiopia PDR 19,200 ha compare
- 41 Niger 16,311 ha compare
- 42 Peru 16,290 ha compare
- 43 Benin 12,318 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Equatorial Guinea
- Rural population 28.4% (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 3.21 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 411.21 million current US$ (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 30.0% (1983)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.2% (1983)
- Rural population growth 1.6% (2025)
- Rural population 550,978 (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 3.21 (2025)
- Capture fisheries vs aquaculture 21 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Equatorial Guinea?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Equatorial Guinea was 19,150 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Equatorial Guinea?
- The highest recorded value was 19,150 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Equatorial Guinea?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,000 ha in 1979.
- How does Equatorial Guinea rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Equatorial Guinea ranks 40th out of 126 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Equatorial Guinea?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Equatorial Guinea 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.