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.
Melanesia ranks 12th of 35 regions 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 | 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
- 9 Papua New Guinea 142,854 ha compare
- 10 India 111,866 ha compare
- 11 Mozambique 100,470 ha compare
- 12 Cameroon 93,378 ha compare
- 13 Guinea 83,476 ha compare
- 14 Philippines 80,901 ha compare
- 15 Burundi 80,064 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Melanesia
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 1.31 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 41 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 89,605 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 374.22 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 504 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 4,250 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 8,430 kg/ha (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 79,382 ha (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 12th out of 35 regions 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.