Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs): Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 2.39 million ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs), 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 Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) is 2.39 million ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 1.2% on the previous year and down 10.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) peaked at 2.81 million ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 695,133 ha, in 1961.
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) ranks 4th 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 Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs), year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 695,133 ha | — |
| 1962 | 774,174 ha | +11.4% |
| 1963 | 785,660 ha | +1.5% |
| 1964 | 773,131 ha | -1.6% |
| 1965 | 766,631 ha | -0.8% |
| 1966 | 734,620 ha | -4.2% |
| 1967 | 739,381 ha | +0.6% |
| 1968 | 777,810 ha | +5.2% |
| 1969 | 941,681 ha | +21.1% |
| 1970 | 1.13 million ha | +19.9% |
| 1971 | 1.21 million ha | +7.0% |
| 1972 | 1.24 million ha | +2.4% |
| 1973 | 1.18 million ha | -4.2% |
| 1974 | 1.33 million ha | +12.0% |
| 1975 | 1.43 million ha | +7.5% |
| 1976 | 1.49 million ha | +4.5% |
| 1977 | 1.38 million ha | -7.3% |
| 1978 | 1.43 million ha | +3.2% |
| 1979 | 1.21 million ha | -15.2% |
| 1980 | 1.17 million ha | -3.4% |
| 1981 | 1.23 million ha | +5.2% |
| 1982 | 1.26 million ha | +2.7% |
| 1983 | 1.34 million ha | +5.9% |
| 1984 | 1.26 million ha | -6.0% |
| 1985 | 1.47 million ha | +16.9% |
| 1986 | 1.44 million ha | -2.2% |
| 1987 | 1.48 million ha | +3.1% |
| 1988 | 1.46 million ha | -1.4% |
| 1989 | 1.46 million ha | -0.1% |
| 1990 | 1.60 million ha | +9.5% |
| 1991 | 1.59 million ha | -0.7% |
| 1992 | 1.59 million ha | +0.2% |
| 1993 | 1.61 million ha | +1.5% |
| 1994 | 1.60 million ha | -0.9% |
| 1995 | 1.67 million ha | +4.3% |
| 1996 | 1.71 million ha | +2.2% |
| 1997 | 1.72 million ha | +0.5% |
| 1998 | 1.85 million ha | +8.0% |
| 1999 | 1.82 million ha | -1.8% |
| 2000 | 2.01 million ha | +10.7% |
| 2001 | 2.23 million ha | +10.5% |
| 2002 | 2.17 million ha | -2.4% |
| 2003 | 2.03 million ha | -6.6% |
| 2004 | 2.37 million ha | +16.5% |
| 2005 | 2.28 million ha | -3.5% |
| 2006 | 2.32 million ha | +1.5% |
| 2007 | 2.26 million ha | -2.6% |
| 2008 | 1.84 million ha | -18.7% |
| 2009 | 2.41 million ha | +31.2% |
| 2010 | 2.39 million ha | -0.9% |
| 2011 | 2.48 million ha | +3.8% |
| 2012 | 2.40 million ha | -3.2% |
| 2013 | 2.66 million ha | +10.8% |
| 2014 | 2.67 million ha | +0.6% |
| 2015 | 2.65 million ha | -1.0% |
| 2016 | 2.62 million ha | -0.8% |
| 2017 | 2.81 million ha | +7.0% |
| 2018 | 2.54 million ha | -9.5% |
| 2019 | 2.43 million ha | -4.4% |
| 2020 | 2.42 million ha | -0.3% |
| 2021 | 2.47 million ha | +2.0% |
| 2022 | 2.32 million ha | -6.1% |
| 2023 | 2.36 million ha | +1.7% |
| 2024 | 2.39 million ha | +1.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 776,469 ha | 695,133 ha | 941,681 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1.30 million ha | 1.13 million ha | 1.49 million ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1.36 million ha | 1.17 million ha | 1.48 million ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.68 million ha | 1.59 million ha | 1.85 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2.19 million ha | 1.84 million ha | 2.41 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2.56 million ha | 2.39 million ha | 2.81 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2.39 million ha | 2.32 million ha | 2.47 million ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)
- 1 China 2.32 million ha compare
- 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
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) was 2.39 million ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 2.81 million ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 695,133 ha in 1961.
- How does Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) ranks 4th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 10.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 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.