Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Melanesia
Melanesia: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 153,788 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Melanesia, 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 Melanesia is 153,788 ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.3% on the previous year and up 9.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Melanesia peaked at 154,292 ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 78,610 ha, in 1961.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Melanesia, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 78,610 ha | — |
| 1962 | 78,910 ha | +0.4% |
| 1963 | 78,940 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 80,000 ha | +1.3% |
| 1965 | 80,150 ha | +0.2% |
| 1966 | 80,370 ha | +0.3% |
| 1967 | 81,110 ha | +0.9% |
| 1968 | 83,115 ha | +2.5% |
| 1969 | 85,130 ha | +2.4% |
| 1970 | 87,245 ha | +2.5% |
| 1971 | 88,180 ha | +1.1% |
| 1972 | 90,210 ha | +2.3% |
| 1973 | 92,250 ha | +2.3% |
| 1974 | 95,324 ha | +3.3% |
| 1975 | 97,926 ha | +2.7% |
| 1976 | 97,879 ha | -0.0% |
| 1977 | 98,822 ha | +1.0% |
| 1978 | 98,030 ha | -0.8% |
| 1979 | 97,050 ha | -1.0% |
| 1980 | 98,010 ha | +1.0% |
| 1981 | 100,050 ha | +2.1% |
| 1982 | 100,060 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 103,270 ha | +3.2% |
| 1984 | 103,270 ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 103,570 ha | +0.3% |
| 1986 | 104,622 ha | +1.0% |
| 1987 | 104,110 ha | -0.5% |
| 1988 | 106,027 ha | +1.8% |
| 1989 | 105,943 ha | -0.1% |
| 1990 | 114,427 ha | +8.0% |
| 1991 | 104,938 ha | -8.3% |
| 1992 | 104,942 ha | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 105,269 ha | +0.3% |
| 1994 | 105,879 ha | +0.6% |
| 1995 | 105,665 ha | -0.2% |
| 1996 | 106,407 ha | +0.7% |
| 1997 | 106,753 ha | +0.3% |
| 1998 | 105,947 ha | -0.8% |
| 1999 | 107,844 ha | +1.8% |
| 2000 | 108,170 ha | +0.3% |
| 2001 | 108,306 ha | +0.1% |
| 2002 | 109,656 ha | +1.2% |
| 2003 | 110,231 ha | +0.5% |
| 2004 | 112,071 ha | +1.7% |
| 2005 | 116,705 ha | +4.1% |
| 2006 | 119,357 ha | +2.3% |
| 2007 | 123,617 ha | +3.6% |
| 2008 | 129,006 ha | +4.4% |
| 2009 | 127,652 ha | -1.0% |
| 2010 | 129,100 ha | +1.1% |
| 2011 | 132,142 ha | +2.4% |
| 2012 | 134,908 ha | +2.1% |
| 2013 | 137,569 ha | +2.0% |
| 2014 | 140,241 ha | +1.9% |
| 2015 | 143,062 ha | +2.0% |
| 2016 | 145,083 ha | +1.4% |
| 2017 | 147,269 ha | +1.5% |
| 2018 | 149,294 ha | +1.4% |
| 2019 | 151,341 ha | +1.4% |
| 2020 | 153,596 ha | +1.5% |
| 2021 | 151,563 ha | -1.3% |
| 2022 | 153,868 ha | +1.5% |
| 2023 | 154,292 ha | +0.3% |
| 2024 | 153,788 ha | -0.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 80,704 ha | 78,610 ha | 85,130 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 94,292 ha | 87,245 ha | 98,822 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 102,893 ha | 98,010 ha | 106,027 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 106,807 ha | 104,938 ha | 114,427 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 116,477 ha | 108,170 ha | 129,006 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 141,001 ha | 129,100 ha | 151,341 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 153,421 ha | 151,563 ha | 154,292 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
- 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
- 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
- 9 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 42,159 ha compare
- 9 Papua New Guinea 142,854 ha compare
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- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross Production Value 11.86 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of goat, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross Production Value 8.31 % change on previous year (2024)
- Maize (corn) — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 21.3 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) 0.8374 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.11 % change on previous year (2024)
- Raw milk of cattle — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -1.73 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Melanesia?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Melanesia was 153,788 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 154,292 ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 78,610 ha in 1961.
- How does Melanesia rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Melanesia ranks 6th out of 16 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Melanesia 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.