Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Eswatini
Eswatini: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 1,505 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Eswatini, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Eswatini stood at 1,505 ha.
That represents a change of down 0.7% on the previous year and up 15.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Eswatini peaked at 5,000 ha in 1979 and was at its lowest, 485 ha, in 1983.
Eswatini ranks 65th of 113 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Eswatini, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,540 ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,600 ha | +3.9% |
| 1963 | 1,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 1,800 ha | +12.5% |
| 1965 | 1,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 1,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 1,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 1,900 ha | +5.6% |
| 1969 | 2,000 ha | +5.3% |
| 1970 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 1,800 ha | -10.0% |
| 1972 | 1,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 1,200 ha | -33.3% |
| 1974 | 1,500 ha | +25.0% |
| 1975 | 1,493 ha | -0.5% |
| 1976 | 1,803 ha | +20.8% |
| 1977 | 550 ha | -69.5% |
| 1978 | 4,500 ha | +718.2% |
| 1979 | 5,000 ha | +11.1% |
| 1980 | 4,200 ha | -16.0% |
| 1981 | 1,063 ha | -74.7% |
| 1982 | 910 ha | -14.4% |
| 1983 | 485 ha | -46.7% |
| 1984 | 1,814 ha | +274.0% |
| 1985 | 988 ha | -45.5% |
| 1986 | 1,000 ha | +1.2% |
| 1987 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 1,713 ha | +71.3% |
| 1989 | 2,445 ha | +42.7% |
| 1990 | 2,426 ha | -0.8% |
| 1991 | 2,000 ha | -17.6% |
| 1992 | 1,500 ha | -25.0% |
| 1993 | 1,300 ha | -13.3% |
| 1994 | 1,329 ha | +2.2% |
| 1995 | 1,317 ha | -0.9% |
| 1996 | 1,327 ha | +0.8% |
| 1997 | 1,350 ha | +1.7% |
| 1998 | 1,300 ha | -3.7% |
| 1999 | 1,264 ha | -2.8% |
| 2000 | 1,301 ha | +2.9% |
| 2001 | 1,350 ha | +3.8% |
| 2002 | 1,352 ha | +0.1% |
| 2003 | 1,400 ha | +3.6% |
| 2004 | 1,370 ha | -2.1% |
| 2005 | 1,450 ha | +5.8% |
| 2006 | 1,300 ha | -10.3% |
| 2007 | 1,337 ha | +2.8% |
| 2008 | 1,339 ha | +0.1% |
| 2009 | 1,358 ha | +1.4% |
| 2010 | 1,400 ha | +3.1% |
| 2011 | 1,354 ha | -3.3% |
| 2012 | 1,300 ha | -4.0% |
| 2013 | 1,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 1,301 ha | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 1,323 ha | +1.7% |
| 2016 | 1,354 ha | +2.3% |
| 2017 | 1,360 ha | +0.4% |
| 2018 | 1,353 ha | -0.5% |
| 2019 | 1,836 ha | +35.7% |
| 2020 | 1,516 ha | -17.4% |
| 2021 | 1,488 ha | -1.8% |
| 2022 | 1,511 ha | +1.5% |
| 2023 | 1,516 ha | +0.3% |
| 2024 | 1,505 ha | -0.7% |
Eswatini compared with similar countries
- Eswatini's 1,505 ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 9,882 ha, 15% of the median. (28 countries reporting)
- Eswatini's 1,505 ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 28,960 ha, 5% of the median. (36 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Eswatini changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | +718.2% | 550 ha | 4,500 ha |
| 1984 | +274.0% | 485 ha | 1,814 ha |
| 1981 | -74.7% | 4,200 ha | 1,063 ha |
| 1988 | +71.3% | 1,000 ha | 1,713 ha |
| 1977 | -69.5% | 1,803 ha | 550 ha |
| 1983 | -46.7% | 910 ha | 485 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,760 ha | 1,540 ha | 2,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,165 ha | 550 ha | 5,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,562 ha | 485 ha | 4,200 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,511 ha | 1,264 ha | 2,426 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,356 ha | 1,300 ha | 1,450 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,388 ha | 1,300 ha | 1,836 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,507 ha | 1,488 ha | 1,516 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Eswatini
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.08 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0641 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 263.26 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4281 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7328 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 6.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 6.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 6.2% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Eswatini?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Eswatini was 1,505 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Eswatini?
- The highest recorded value was 5,000 ha in 1979.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Eswatini?
- The lowest recorded value was 485 ha in 1983.
- How does Eswatini rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Eswatini ranks 65th out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Eswatini?
- Over the last ten years it is up 15.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Eswatini 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.