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 88th of 113 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 57 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Greece, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 260 ha | — |
| 1962 | 250 ha | -3.8% |
| 1963 | 230 ha | -8.0% |
| 1964 | 200 ha | -13.0% |
| 1965 | 190 ha | -5.0% |
| 1966 | 220 ha | +15.8% |
| 1967 | 220 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 170 ha | -22.7% |
| 1969 | 160 ha | -5.9% |
| 1970 | 100 ha | -37.5% |
| 1971 | 200 ha | +100.0% |
| 1972 | 100 ha | -50.0% |
| 1973 | 178 ha | +78.0% |
| 1974 | 124 ha | -30.3% |
| 1975 | 123 ha | -0.8% |
| 1976 | 200 ha | +62.6% |
| 1977 | 230 ha | +15.0% |
| 1978 | 210 ha | -8.7% |
| 1979 | 200 ha | -4.8% |
| 1980 | 200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 300 ha | +50.0% |
| 1982 | 102 ha | -66.0% |
| 1983 | 100 ha | -2.0% |
| 1984 | 160 ha | +60.0% |
| 1985 | 185 ha | +15.6% |
| 1986 | 100 ha | -45.9% |
| 1987 | 353 ha | +253.0% |
| 1988 | 208 ha | -41.1% |
| 1989 | 135 ha | -35.1% |
| 1990 | 138 ha | +2.2% |
| 1991 | 167 ha | +21.0% |
| 1992 | 164 ha | -1.8% |
| 1993 | 134 ha | -18.3% |
| 1994 | 123 ha | -8.2% |
| 1995 | 97 ha | -21.1% |
| 1996 | 89 ha | -8.2% |
| 1997 | 96 ha | +7.9% |
| 1998 | 92 ha | -4.2% |
| 1999 | 339 ha | +268.5% |
| 2000 | 90 ha | -73.5% |
| 2001 | 288 ha | +220.0% |
| 2002 | 263 ha | -8.7% |
| 2003 | 362 ha | +37.6% |
| 2004 | 551 ha | +52.2% |
| 2005 | 395 ha | -28.3% |
| 2006 | 133 ha | -66.3% |
| 2007 | 169 ha | +27.1% |
| 2008 | 170 ha | +0.6% |
| 2009 | 173 ha | +1.8% |
| 2010 | 175 ha | +1.2% |
| 2011 | 171 ha | -2.3% |
| 2012 | 165 ha | -3.5% |
| 2013 | 235 ha | +42.4% |
| 2014 | 48 ha | -79.6% |
| 2015 | 109 ha | +127.1% |
| 2016 | 138 ha | +26.6% |
| 2017 | 90 ha | -34.8% |
Greece compared with similar countries
- Greece's 90 ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 239 ha, 38% of the median. (24 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Greece 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | +268.5% | 92 ha | 339 ha |
| 1987 | +253.0% | 100 ha | 353 ha |
| 2001 | +220.0% | 90 ha | 288 ha |
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
- 85 Grenada 187 ha compare
- 86 Trinidad and Tobago 160 ha compare
- 87 El Salvador 132 ha compare
- 89 Martinique 78 ha compare
- 90 Palestine 74 ha compare
- 91 Barbados 72 ha compare
- 91 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 72 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Greece
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 3.84 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0357 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 962.12 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2078 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 3.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 3.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (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 88th out of 113 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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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.