Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Ethiopia
Ethiopia: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 41,686 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Ethiopia, 1993–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Ethiopia recorded 41,686 ha for sweet potatoes — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 10.9% on the previous year and down 38.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Ethiopia peaked at 75,350 ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 19,500 ha, in 1994.
Ethiopia ranks 21st of 113 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 32 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Ethiopia, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 20,863 ha | — |
| 1994 | 19,500 ha | -6.5% |
| 1995 | 19,700 ha | +1.0% |
| 1996 | 20,000 ha | +1.5% |
| 1997 | 25,540 ha | +27.7% |
| 1998 | 25,000 ha | -2.1% |
| 1999 | 24,702 ha | -1.2% |
| 2000 | 30,000 ha | +21.4% |
| 2001 | 32,000 ha | +6.7% |
| 2002 | 34,027 ha | +6.3% |
| 2003 | 46,942 ha | +38.0% |
| 2004 | 45,474 ha | -3.1% |
| 2005 | 50,313 ha | +10.6% |
| 2006 | 53,312 ha | +6.0% |
| 2007 | 62,271 ha | +16.8% |
| 2008 | 33,029 ha | -47.0% |
| 2009 | 53,431 ha | +61.8% |
| 2010 | 30,000 ha | -43.9% |
| 2011 | 40,200 ha | +34.0% |
| 2012 | 52,151 ha | +29.7% |
| 2013 | 68,083 ha | +30.5% |
| 2014 | 67,379 ha | -1.0% |
| 2015 | 67,588 ha | +0.3% |
| 2016 | 71,755 ha | +6.2% |
| 2017 | 71,967 ha | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 59,493 ha | -17.3% |
| 2019 | 60,050 ha | +0.9% |
| 2020 | 75,350 ha | +25.5% |
| 2021 | 73,566 ha | -2.4% |
| 2022 | 56,504 ha | -23.2% |
| 2023 | 46,764 ha | -17.2% |
| 2024 | 41,686 ha | -10.9% |
Ethiopia compared with similar countries
- Ethiopia's 41,686 ha is above the median for low income countries, which is 38,904 ha, 1.1× the median. (17 countries reporting)
- Ethiopia's 41,686 ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 28,960 ha, 1.4× the median. (36 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 22,186 ha | 19,500 ha | 25,540 ha | 7 |
| 2000s | 44,080 ha | 30,000 ha | 62,271 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 58,867 ha | 30,000 ha | 71,967 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 58,774 ha | 41,686 ha | 75,350 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Ethiopia
More agriculture & rural data for Ethiopia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -20.36 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3282 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 306.11 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.93 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0008 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7589 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 32.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 32.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 9.7% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Ethiopia?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Ethiopia was 41,686 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Ethiopia?
- The highest recorded value was 75,350 ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Ethiopia?
- The lowest recorded value was 19,500 ha in 1994.
- How does Ethiopia rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Ethiopia ranks 21st out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Ethiopia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 38.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ethiopia 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.