Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs): Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 2.13 million ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) recorded 2.13 million ha for sweet potatoes — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 4.7% on the previous year and down 11.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) peaked at 2.53 million ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 568,416 ha, in 1967.
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 5th of 26 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 594,228 ha | — |
| 1962 | 652,214 ha | +9.8% |
| 1963 | 638,909 ha | -2.0% |
| 1964 | 614,682 ha | -3.8% |
| 1965 | 620,030 ha | +0.9% |
| 1966 | 580,202 ha | -6.4% |
| 1967 | 568,416 ha | -2.0% |
| 1968 | 594,818 ha | +4.6% |
| 1969 | 762,504 ha | +28.2% |
| 1970 | 941,076 ha | +23.4% |
| 1971 | 1.02 million ha | +8.4% |
| 1972 | 1.06 million ha | +3.5% |
| 1973 | 994,471 ha | -5.8% |
| 1974 | 1.13 million ha | +13.3% |
| 1975 | 1.21 million ha | +7.4% |
| 1976 | 1.27 million ha | +5.0% |
| 1977 | 1.18 million ha | -7.2% |
| 1978 | 1.21 million ha | +2.8% |
| 1979 | 1.00 million ha | -17.0% |
| 1980 | 987,940 ha | -1.7% |
| 1981 | 1.06 million ha | +7.3% |
| 1982 | 1.09 million ha | +3.0% |
| 1983 | 1.17 million ha | +7.3% |
| 1984 | 1.08 million ha | -7.4% |
| 1985 | 1.30 million ha | +19.6% |
| 1986 | 1.27 million ha | -1.8% |
| 1987 | 1.31 million ha | +2.8% |
| 1988 | 1.27 million ha | -3.1% |
| 1989 | 1.26 million ha | -0.4% |
| 1990 | 1.40 million ha | +10.6% |
| 1991 | 1.39 million ha | -1.0% |
| 1992 | 1.37 million ha | -1.2% |
| 1993 | 1.40 million ha | +2.3% |
| 1994 | 1.37 million ha | -2.2% |
| 1995 | 1.44 million ha | +5.3% |
| 1996 | 1.49 million ha | +2.9% |
| 1997 | 1.49 million ha | +0.2% |
| 1998 | 1.62 million ha | +8.8% |
| 1999 | 1.63 million ha | +0.4% |
| 2000 | 1.76 million ha | +8.2% |
| 2001 | 1.92 million ha | +9.1% |
| 2002 | 1.91 million ha | -0.8% |
| 2003 | 1.72 million ha | -10.0% |
| 2004 | 2.07 million ha | +20.8% |
| 2005 | 1.96 million ha | -5.3% |
| 2006 | 2.01 million ha | +2.1% |
| 2007 | 1.94 million ha | -3.1% |
| 2008 | 1.57 million ha | -19.0% |
| 2009 | 2.07 million ha | +31.2% |
| 2010 | 2.04 million ha | -1.0% |
| 2011 | 2.21 million ha | +8.1% |
| 2012 | 2.16 million ha | -2.4% |
| 2013 | 2.38 million ha | +10.6% |
| 2014 | 2.40 million ha | +0.7% |
| 2015 | 2.38 million ha | -1.0% |
| 2016 | 2.33 million ha | -1.8% |
| 2017 | 2.53 million ha | +8.3% |
| 2018 | 2.27 million ha | -10.3% |
| 2019 | 2.17 million ha | -4.3% |
| 2020 | 2.14 million ha | -1.3% |
| 2021 | 2.20 million ha | +2.8% |
| 2022 | 2.06 million ha | -6.3% |
| 2023 | 2.04 million ha | -1.4% |
| 2024 | 2.13 million ha | +4.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 625,111 ha | 568,416 ha | 762,504 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1.10 million ha | 941,076 ha | 1.27 million ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1.18 million ha | 987,940 ha | 1.31 million ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.46 million ha | 1.37 million ha | 1.63 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1.89 million ha | 1.57 million ha | 2.07 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2.29 million ha | 2.04 million ha | 2.53 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2.12 million ha | 2.04 million ha | 2.20 million ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
- 2 China, mainland 2.31 million ha compare
- 3 Nigeria 1.51 million ha compare
- 4 Malawi 314,753 ha compare
- 4 United Republic of Tanzania 346,027 ha compare
- 5 Uganda 221,783 ha compare
- 6 Angola 200,311 ha compare
- 6 Melanesia 153,788 ha compare
- 7 Democratic Republic of the Congo 124,893 ha compare
- 7 Rwanda 179,717 ha compare
- 8 Madagascar 150,429 ha compare
- 8 Viet Nam 80,807 ha compare
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- Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered, annual growth 1.06 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested, annual growth rate 5.09 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sheep and Goats — Stocks, annual growth rate 2.71 % change on previous year (2024)
- Pulses, Total — Yield, annual growth rate 4.33 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sheep and Goat Meat — Production, annual growth rate 3.62 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) was 2.13 million ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 2.53 million ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 568,416 ha in 1967.
- How does Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 5th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 11.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 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.