Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 29 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Puerto Rico, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Puerto Rico recorded 29 ha for sweet potatoes — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is up 11.5% on the previous year and down 17.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Puerto Rico peaked at 5,180 ha in 1961 and was at its lowest, 26 ha, in 2023.
Puerto Rico ranks 101st of 113 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Puerto Rico, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,180 ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,834 ha | -6.7% |
| 1963 | 4,865 ha | +0.6% |
| 1964 | 4,386 ha | -9.8% |
| 1965 | 4,834 ha | +10.2% |
| 1966 | 4,716 ha | -2.4% |
| 1967 | 3,930 ha | -16.7% |
| 1968 | 3,026 ha | -23.0% |
| 1969 | 3,144 ha | +3.9% |
| 1970 | 2,790 ha | -11.3% |
| 1971 | 2,476 ha | -11.3% |
| 1972 | 2,095 ha | -15.4% |
| 1973 | 2,030 ha | -3.1% |
| 1974 | 1,179 ha | -41.9% |
| 1975 | 1,460 ha | +23.8% |
| 1976 | 1,921 ha | +31.6% |
| 1977 | 1,800 ha | -6.3% |
| 1978 | 1,900 ha | +5.6% |
| 1979 | 2,000 ha | +5.3% |
| 1980 | 1,965 ha | -1.8% |
| 1981 | 1,300 ha | -33.8% |
| 1982 | 1,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 1,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 1,200 ha | -7.7% |
| 1985 | 1,100 ha | -8.3% |
| 1986 | 1,100 ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 1,100 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 1,120 ha | +1.8% |
| 1989 | 1,200 ha | +7.1% |
| 1990 | 1,080 ha | -10.0% |
| 1991 | 1,240 ha | +14.8% |
| 1992 | 980 ha | -21.0% |
| 1993 | 442 ha | -54.9% |
| 1994 | 470 ha | +6.3% |
| 1995 | 300 ha | -36.2% |
| 1996 | 230 ha | -23.3% |
| 1997 | 250 ha | +8.7% |
| 1998 | 319 ha | +27.6% |
| 1999 | 320 ha | +0.3% |
| 2000 | 380 ha | +18.8% |
| 2001 | 285 ha | -25.0% |
| 2002 | 400 ha | +40.4% |
| 2003 | 325 ha | -18.8% |
| 2004 | 328 ha | +0.9% |
| 2005 | 355 ha | +8.2% |
| 2006 | 343 ha | -3.4% |
| 2007 | 332 ha | -3.2% |
| 2008 | 279 ha | -16.0% |
| 2009 | 255 ha | -8.6% |
| 2010 | 271 ha | +6.3% |
| 2011 | 217 ha | -19.9% |
| 2012 | 131 ha | -39.6% |
| 2013 | 120 ha | -8.4% |
| 2014 | 35 ha | -70.8% |
| 2015 | 50 ha | +42.9% |
| 2016 | 57 ha | +14.0% |
| 2017 | 61 ha | +7.0% |
| 2018 | 70 ha | +14.8% |
| 2019 | 68 ha | -2.9% |
| 2020 | 55 ha | -19.1% |
| 2021 | 45 ha | -18.2% |
| 2022 | 34 ha | -24.4% |
| 2023 | 26 ha | -23.5% |
| 2024 | 29 ha | +11.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,324 ha | 3,026 ha | 5,180 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,965 ha | 1,179 ha | 2,790 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,268 ha | 1,100 ha | 1,965 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 563.1 ha | 230 ha | 1,240 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 328.2 ha | 255 ha | 400 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 108 ha | 35 ha | 271 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 37.8 ha | 26 ha | 55 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Puerto Rico
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0069 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.0566 units per person (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -2.05 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 278.57 current US$ per person (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 0.4415 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population 180,246 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 0.6858 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 887.20 million current US$ (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 0.6858 (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Puerto Rico?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Puerto Rico was 29 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Puerto Rico?
- The highest recorded value was 5,180 ha in 1961.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Puerto Rico?
- The lowest recorded value was 26 ha in 2023.
- How does Puerto Rico rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Puerto Rico ranks 101st out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Puerto Rico?
- Over the last ten years it is down 17.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Puerto Rico 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.