Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Liberia
Liberia: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 2,193 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Liberia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — area harvested in Liberia is 2,193 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.3% on the previous year and up 3.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Liberia peaked at 2,203 ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 800 ha, in 1961.
That places Liberia 59th out of 111 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 966.67 ha | 800 ha | 1,200 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,400 ha | 1,200 ha | 1,500 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,620 ha | 1,500 ha | 1,700 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,673 ha | 1,500 ha | 1,800 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,946 ha | 1,821 ha | 2,100 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,096 ha | 1,898 ha | 2,178 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,190 ha | 2,179 ha | 2,203 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Liberia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.94 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3265 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 298.89 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.8615 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0005 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4392 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 32.65 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 32.65 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 63.7% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.7% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Liberia?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Liberia was 2,193 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Liberia?
- The highest recorded value was 2,203 ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Liberia?
- The lowest recorded value was 800 ha in 1961.
- How does Liberia rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Liberia ranks 59th out of 111 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Liberia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Liberia 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.