Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Paraguay
Paraguay: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 5,602 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Paraguay, 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 Paraguay is 5,602 ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.9% on the previous year and up 7.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Paraguay peaked at 20,990 ha in 2006 and was at its lowest, 4,858 ha, in 2015.
That places Paraguay 49th out of 113 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Paraguay, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7,500 ha | — |
| 1962 | 7,300 ha | -2.7% |
| 1963 | 7,500 ha | +2.7% |
| 1964 | 8,700 ha | +16.0% |
| 1965 | 10,500 ha | +20.7% |
| 1966 | 9,160 ha | -12.8% |
| 1967 | 9,100 ha | -0.7% |
| 1968 | 8,000 ha | -12.1% |
| 1969 | 8,770 ha | +9.6% |
| 1970 | 9,200 ha | +4.9% |
| 1971 | 9,000 ha | -2.2% |
| 1972 | 12,300 ha | +36.7% |
| 1973 | 11,770 ha | -4.3% |
| 1974 | 12,509 ha | +6.3% |
| 1975 | 13,035 ha | +4.2% |
| 1976 | 13,715 ha | +5.2% |
| 1977 | 14,086 ha | +2.7% |
| 1978 | 14,606 ha | +3.7% |
| 1979 | 14,098 ha | -3.5% |
| 1980 | 14,400 ha | +2.1% |
| 1981 | 11,300 ha | -21.5% |
| 1982 | 11,400 ha | +0.9% |
| 1983 | 11,900 ha | +4.4% |
| 1984 | 12,200 ha | +2.5% |
| 1985 | 12,974 ha | +6.3% |
| 1986 | 11,157 ha | -14.0% |
| 1987 | 13,788 ha | +23.6% |
| 1988 | 14,200 ha | +3.0% |
| 1989 | 13,589 ha | -4.3% |
| 1990 | 13,550 ha | -0.3% |
| 1991 | 10,500 ha | -22.5% |
| 1992 | 10,701 ha | +1.9% |
| 1993 | 11,900 ha | +11.2% |
| 1994 | 12,226 ha | +2.7% |
| 1995 | 9,305 ha | -23.9% |
| 1996 | 9,203 ha | -1.1% |
| 1997 | 10,007 ha | +8.7% |
| 1998 | 9,979 ha | -0.3% |
| 1999 | 10,085 ha | +1.1% |
| 2000 | 10,926 ha | +8.3% |
| 2001 | 17,734 ha | +62.3% |
| 2002 | 20,926 ha | +18.0% |
| 2003 | 18,718 ha | -10.6% |
| 2004 | 18,905 ha | +1.0% |
| 2005 | 20,000 ha | +5.8% |
| 2006 | 20,990 ha | +5.0% |
| 2007 | 13,000 ha | -38.1% |
| 2008 | 4,973 ha | -61.7% |
| 2009 | 5,120 ha | +3.0% |
| 2010 | 4,952 ha | -3.3% |
| 2011 | 5,223 ha | +5.5% |
| 2012 | 5,275 ha | +1.0% |
| 2013 | 5,223 ha | -1.0% |
| 2014 | 5,200 ha | -0.4% |
| 2015 | 4,858 ha | -6.6% |
| 2016 | 5,000 ha | +2.9% |
| 2017 | 5,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 5,078 ha | +1.6% |
| 2019 | 5,087 ha | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 5,271 ha | +3.6% |
| 2021 | 5,289 ha | +0.3% |
| 2022 | 5,390 ha | +1.9% |
| 2023 | 5,445 ha | +1.0% |
| 2024 | 5,602 ha | +2.9% |
Paraguay compared with similar countries
- Paraguay's 5,602 ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 2,598 ha, 2.2× the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Paraguay's 5,602 ha is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 565 ha, 9.9× the median. (30 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Paraguay changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | -61.7% | 13,000 ha | 4,973 ha |
| 2001 | +62.3% | 10,926 ha | 17,734 ha |
| 2007 | -38.1% | 20,990 ha | 13,000 ha |
| 1972 | +36.7% | 9,000 ha | 12,300 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,503 ha | 7,300 ha | 10,500 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 12,432 ha | 9,000 ha | 14,606 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 12,691 ha | 11,157 ha | 14,400 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 10,746 ha | 9,203 ha | 13,550 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 15,129 ha | 4,973 ha | 20,990 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,090 ha | 4,858 ha | 5,275 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,399 ha | 5,271 ha | 5,602 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Paraguay
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 14.01 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1164 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 817.98 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.5603 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2961 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 11.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 11.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Paraguay?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Paraguay was 5,602 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Paraguay?
- The highest recorded value was 20,990 ha in 2006.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Paraguay?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,858 ha in 2015.
- How does Paraguay rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Paraguay ranks 49th out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Paraguay?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Paraguay 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.