Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Greece
Greece: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 90 ha in 2017. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Greece, 1961–2017
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Greece recorded 90 ha for sweet potatoes — area harvested in 2017.
That represents a change of down 34.8% on the previous year and down 46.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Greece peaked at 551 ha in 2004 and was at its lowest, 48 ha, in 2014.
Greece ranks 102nd of 126 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 57 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 211.11 ha | 160 ha | 260 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 166.5 ha | 100 ha | 230 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 184.3 ha | 100 ha | 353 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 143.9 ha | 89 ha | 339 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 259.4 ha | 90 ha | 551 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 141.38 ha | 48 ha | 235 ha | 8 |
Countries ranked near Greece
- 99 Cabo Verde 163 ha compare
- 100 Trinidad and Tobago 160 ha compare
- 101 El Salvador 132 ha compare
- 103 Martinique 78 ha compare
- 104 Palestine 74 ha compare
- 105 Barbados 72 ha compare
- 105 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 72 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Greece
- Agriculture share gdp 3.57 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 3.57 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
- Rural population 20.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.0% (2025)
- Rural population 2.16 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 10.02 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 1,090 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Greece?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Greece was 90 ha in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Greece?
- The highest recorded value was 551 ha in 2004.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Greece?
- The lowest recorded value was 48 ha in 2014.
- How does Greece rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Greece ranks 102nd out of 126 countries with data for 2017.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Greece?
- Over the last ten years it is down 46.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Greece 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.