Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)
Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs): Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 1.02 million ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) stood at 1.02 million ha.
The figure is down 7.1% on the previous year and down 4.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) peaked at 1.25 million ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 261,977 ha, in 1967.
Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) ranks 10th of 29 groups on this measure, 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 | 328,887 ha | 261,977 ha | 433,939 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 659,146 ha | 487,316 ha | 767,143 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 647,451 ha | 473,340 ha | 741,558 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 854,898 ha | 767,968 ha | 960,016 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 992,170 ha | 845,666 ha | 1.06 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.00 million ha | 850,178 ha | 1.25 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.09 million ha | 1.02 million ha | 1.15 million ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)
- 7 Angola 200,311 ha compare
- 8 Rwanda 179,717 ha compare
- 9 Melanesia 153,788 ha compare
- 10 Madagascar 150,429 ha compare
- 11 Papua New Guinea 142,854 ha compare
- 12 Democratic Republic of the Congo 124,893 ha compare
- 13 India 111,866 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 486,241 t (2024)
- Bananas — Production 8.60 million t (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 39.08 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 297,257 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 26,848 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 7.98 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 675,433 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 326,787 ha (2024)
- Cabbages — Production 4.94 million t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production 100,973 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) was 1.02 million ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 1.25 million ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 261,977 ha in 1967.
- How does Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) ranks 10th out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 4.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 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.