Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Oceania
Oceania: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 158,426 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Oceania, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Oceania recorded 158,426 ha for sweet potatoes — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is down 0.4% on the previous year and up 9.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Oceania peaked at 159,010 ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 80,194 ha, in 1961.
Oceania ranks 15th of 29 groups 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 | 82,517 ha | 80,194 ha | 87,169 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 96,433 ha | 89,133 ha | 100,878 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 104,537 ha | 100,102 ha | 107,514 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 109,047 ha | 106,602 ha | 115,999 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 120,013 ha | 111,330 ha | 132,683 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 145,490 ha | 133,152 ha | 156,237 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 158,254 ha | 156,630 ha | 159,010 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Oceania
- 12 Democratic Republic of the Congo 124,893 ha compare
- 13 India 111,866 ha compare
- 14 Mozambique 100,470 ha compare
- 16 Cameroon 93,378 ha compare
- 17 Guinea 83,476 ha compare
- 18 Philippines 80,901 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Oceania
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 6,287 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 97,509 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 1.71 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 626.54 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 581 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 79,147 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 497,570 t (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 5.39 million An (2024)
- Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 64.03 million An (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Production 31.52 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Oceania?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Oceania was 158,426 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Oceania?
- The highest recorded value was 159,010 ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Oceania?
- The lowest recorded value was 80,194 ha in 1961.
- How does Oceania rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Oceania ranks 15th out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Oceania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Oceania 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.