Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Polynesia
Polynesia: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 719 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Polynesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Polynesia recorded 719 ha for sweet potatoes — area harvested in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.8% on the previous year and up 12.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Polynesia peaked at 1,421 ha in 1973 and was at its lowest, 309 ha, in 1999.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Polynesia, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,232 ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,229 ha | -0.2% |
| 1963 | 1,227 ha | -0.2% |
| 1964 | 1,326 ha | +8.1% |
| 1965 | 1,299 ha | -2.0% |
| 1966 | 1,347 ha | +3.7% |
| 1967 | 1,341 ha | -0.4% |
| 1968 | 1,294 ha | -3.5% |
| 1969 | 1,312 ha | +1.4% |
| 1970 | 1,205 ha | -8.2% |
| 1971 | 1,281 ha | +6.3% |
| 1972 | 1,381 ha | +7.8% |
| 1973 | 1,421 ha | +2.9% |
| 1974 | 1,419 ha | -0.1% |
| 1975 | 1,376 ha | -3.0% |
| 1976 | 1,375 ha | -0.1% |
| 1977 | 1,275 ha | -7.3% |
| 1978 | 1,172 ha | -8.1% |
| 1979 | 1,062 ha | -9.4% |
| 1980 | 1,072 ha | +0.9% |
| 1981 | 992 ha | -7.5% |
| 1982 | 922 ha | -7.1% |
| 1983 | 852 ha | -7.6% |
| 1984 | 772 ha | -9.4% |
| 1985 | 702 ha | -9.1% |
| 1986 | 632 ha | -10.0% |
| 1987 | 552 ha | -12.7% |
| 1988 | 472 ha | -14.5% |
| 1989 | 409 ha | -13.3% |
| 1990 | 350 ha | -14.4% |
| 1991 | 338 ha | -3.4% |
| 1992 | 379 ha | +12.1% |
| 1993 | 739 ha | +95.0% |
| 1994 | 574 ha | -22.3% |
| 1995 | 485 ha | -15.5% |
| 1996 | 494 ha | +1.9% |
| 1997 | 514 ha | +4.0% |
| 1998 | 569 ha | +10.7% |
| 1999 | 309 ha | -45.7% |
| 2000 | 702 ha | +127.2% |
| 2001 | 494 ha | -29.6% |
| 2002 | 544 ha | +10.1% |
| 2003 | 538 ha | -1.1% |
| 2004 | 542 ha | +0.7% |
| 2005 | 553 ha | +2.0% |
| 2006 | 587 ha | +6.1% |
| 2007 | 640 ha | +9.0% |
| 2008 | 596 ha | -6.9% |
| 2009 | 605 ha | +1.5% |
| 2010 | 613 ha | +1.3% |
| 2011 | 620 ha | +1.1% |
| 2012 | 629 ha | +1.5% |
| 2013 | 630 ha | +0.2% |
| 2014 | 637 ha | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 651 ha | +2.2% |
| 2016 | 664 ha | +2.0% |
| 2017 | 666 ha | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 700 ha | +5.1% |
| 2019 | 713 ha | +1.9% |
| 2020 | 702 ha | -1.5% |
| 2021 | 725 ha | +3.3% |
| 2022 | 707 ha | -2.5% |
| 2023 | 725 ha | +2.5% |
| 2024 | 719 ha | -0.8% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Polynesia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | +127.2% | 309 ha | 702 ha |
| 1993 | +95.0% | 379 ha | 739 ha |
| 1999 | -45.7% | 569 ha | 309 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,290 ha | 1,227 ha | 1,347 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,297 ha | 1,062 ha | 1,421 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 737.7 ha | 409 ha | 1,072 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 475.1 ha | 309 ha | 739 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 580.1 ha | 494 ha | 702 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 652.3 ha | 613 ha | 713 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 715.6 ha | 702 ha | 725 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Polynesia
- 11 Mozambique 100,470 ha compare
- 11 Timor-Leste 1,927 ha compare
- 12 Cameroon 93,378 ha compare
- 12 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 1,745 ha compare
- 13 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1,092 ha compare
- 13 Guinea 83,476 ha compare
- 14 Philippines 80,901 ha compare
- 14 Caribbean 98,853 ha compare
- 15 Burundi 80,064 ha compare
- 15 Micronesia (Federated States of) 571 ha compare
- 15 Micronesia 571 ha compare
- 16 Ghana 78,611 ha compare
- 17 Indonesia 68,630 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Polynesia
- Goat fat, unrendered — Production, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass -1.23 % change on previous year (2024)
- Horses — Stocks, annual growth rate 0.2329 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Laying, annual growth rate -4.07 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Production, annual growth rate -2.47 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Yield/Carcass Weight, annual growth rate 1.64 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Yield, annual growth rate 1.69 % change on previous year (2024)
- Goats — Stocks, annual growth rate 0.1943 % change on previous year (2024)
- Goat fat, unrendered — Producing Animals/Slaughtered, annual growth -0.3892 % change on previous year (2024)
- Chickens — Stocks, annual growth rate 0.0806 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Polynesia?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Polynesia was 719 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Polynesia?
- The highest recorded value was 1,421 ha in 1973.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Polynesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 309 ha in 1999.
- How does Polynesia rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Polynesia ranks 14th out of 16 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Polynesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 12.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Polynesia 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.