Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 35 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Saint Kitts and Nevis, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Saint Kitts and Nevis recorded 35 ha for sweet potatoes — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is up 6.1% on the previous year and up 133.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Saint Kitts and Nevis peaked at 121 ha in 1974 and was at its lowest, 15 ha, in 2014.
Saint Kitts and Nevis ranks 96th 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 Saint Kitts and Nevis, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 40 ha | — |
| 1962 | 40 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 50 ha | +25.0% |
| 1964 | 50 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 60 ha | +20.0% |
| 1966 | 70 ha | +16.7% |
| 1967 | 70 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 80 ha | +14.3% |
| 1969 | 80 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 90 ha | +12.5% |
| 1971 | 93 ha | +3.3% |
| 1972 | 100 ha | +7.5% |
| 1973 | 113 ha | +13.0% |
| 1974 | 121 ha | +7.1% |
| 1975 | 20 ha | -83.5% |
| 1976 | 24 ha | +20.0% |
| 1977 | 16 ha | -33.3% |
| 1978 | 20 ha | +25.0% |
| 1979 | 20 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 20 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 18 ha | -10.0% |
| 1982 | 17 ha | -5.6% |
| 1983 | 16 ha | -5.9% |
| 1984 | 16 ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 16 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 16 ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 16 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 17 ha | +6.2% |
| 1989 | 17 ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 18 ha | +5.9% |
| 1991 | 23 ha | +27.8% |
| 1992 | 20 ha | -13.0% |
| 1993 | 25 ha | +25.0% |
| 1994 | 25 ha | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 30 ha | +20.0% |
| 1996 | 31 ha | +3.3% |
| 1997 | 30 ha | -3.2% |
| 1998 | 28 ha | -6.7% |
| 1999 | 50 ha | +78.6% |
| 2000 | 26 ha | -48.0% |
| 2001 | 26 ha | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 30 ha | +15.4% |
| 2003 | 32 ha | +6.7% |
| 2004 | 31 ha | -3.1% |
| 2005 | 52 ha | +67.7% |
| 2006 | 22 ha | -57.7% |
| 2007 | 22 ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 22 ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 26 ha | +18.2% |
| 2010 | 22 ha | -15.4% |
| 2011 | 24 ha | +9.1% |
| 2012 | 20 ha | -16.7% |
| 2013 | 28 ha | +40.0% |
| 2014 | 15 ha | -46.4% |
| 2015 | 23 ha | +53.3% |
| 2016 | 29 ha | +26.1% |
| 2017 | 25 ha | -13.8% |
| 2018 | 22 ha | -12.0% |
| 2019 | 46 ha | +109.1% |
| 2020 | 25 ha | -45.7% |
| 2021 | 29 ha | +16.0% |
| 2022 | 23 ha | -20.7% |
| 2023 | 33 ha | +43.5% |
| 2024 | 35 ha | +6.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 60 ha | 40 ha | 80 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 61.7 ha | 16 ha | 121 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 16.9 ha | 16 ha | 20 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 28 ha | 18 ha | 50 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 28.9 ha | 22 ha | 52 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 25.4 ha | 15 ha | 46 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 29 ha | 23 ha | 35 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Saint Kitts and Nevis?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Saint Kitts and Nevis was 35 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Saint Kitts and Nevis?
- The highest recorded value was 121 ha in 1974.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Saint Kitts and Nevis?
- The lowest recorded value was 15 ha in 2014.
- How does Saint Kitts and Nevis rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Saint Kitts and Nevis ranks 96th out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Saint Kitts and Nevis?
- Over the last ten years it is up 133.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Saint Kitts and Nevis 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.