Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 1,927 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Timor-Leste, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Timor-Leste stood at 1,927 ha.
That represents a change of down 3.1% on the previous year and down 18.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Timor-Leste peaked at 7,000 ha in 2002 and was at its lowest, 1,718 ha, in 2022.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Timor-Leste, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,800 ha | — |
| 1962 | 3,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 3,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 3,600 ha | -5.3% |
| 1965 | 3,400 ha | -5.6% |
| 1966 | 3,300 ha | -2.9% |
| 1967 | 3,200 ha | -3.0% |
| 1968 | 3,700 ha | +15.6% |
| 1969 | 4,500 ha | +21.6% |
| 1970 | 4,000 ha | -11.1% |
| 1971 | 2,800 ha | -30.0% |
| 1972 | 2,500 ha | -10.7% |
| 1973 | 3,500 ha | +40.0% |
| 1974 | 4,000 ha | +14.3% |
| 1975 | 4,500 ha | +12.5% |
| 1976 | 4,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 4,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 4,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 4,000 ha | -11.1% |
| 1980 | 3,000 ha | -25.0% |
| 1981 | 2,900 ha | -3.3% |
| 1982 | 3,000 ha | +3.4% |
| 1983 | 2,800 ha | -6.7% |
| 1984 | 2,900 ha | +3.6% |
| 1985 | 3,000 ha | +3.4% |
| 1986 | 4,060 ha | +35.3% |
| 1987 | 2,233 ha | -45.0% |
| 1988 | 2,690 ha | +20.5% |
| 1989 | 2,822 ha | +4.9% |
| 1990 | 2,022 ha | -28.3% |
| 1991 | 2,863 ha | +41.6% |
| 1992 | 3,113 ha | +8.7% |
| 1993 | 4,052 ha | +30.2% |
| 1994 | 5,197 ha | +28.3% |
| 1995 | 4,635 ha | -10.8% |
| 1996 | 4,066 ha | -12.3% |
| 1997 | 4,271 ha | +5.0% |
| 1998 | 3,052 ha | -28.5% |
| 1999 | 3,500 ha | +14.7% |
| 2000 | 5,000 ha | +42.9% |
| 2001 | 6,000 ha | +20.0% |
| 2002 | 7,000 ha | +16.7% |
| 2003 | 6,788 ha | -3.0% |
| 2004 | 6,900 ha | +1.6% |
| 2005 | 6,900 ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 5,000 ha | -27.5% |
| 2007 | 4,000 ha | -20.0% |
| 2008 | 3,567 ha | -10.8% |
| 2009 | 4,807 ha | +34.8% |
| 2010 | 4,082 ha | -15.1% |
| 2011 | 3,229 ha | -20.9% |
| 2012 | 3,140 ha | -2.8% |
| 2013 | 2,719 ha | -13.4% |
| 2014 | 2,362 ha | -13.1% |
| 2015 | 2,038 ha | -13.7% |
| 2016 | 2,373 ha | +16.4% |
| 2017 | 2,360 ha | -0.5% |
| 2018 | 2,296 ha | -2.7% |
| 2019 | 2,285 ha | -0.5% |
| 2020 | 2,255 ha | -1.3% |
| 2021 | 1,750 ha | -22.4% |
| 2022 | 1,718 ha | -1.8% |
| 2023 | 1,989 ha | +15.8% |
| 2024 | 1,927 ha | -3.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,678 ha | 3,200 ha | 4,500 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,880 ha | 2,500 ha | 4,500 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,940 ha | 2,233 ha | 4,060 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,677 ha | 2,022 ha | 5,197 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,596 ha | 3,567 ha | 7,000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,688 ha | 2,038 ha | 4,082 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,928 ha | 1,718 ha | 2,255 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Timor-Leste
- 8 Madagascar 150,429 ha compare
- 8 Viet Nam 80,807 ha compare
- 9 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 42,159 ha compare
- 9 Papua New Guinea 142,854 ha compare
- 10 India 111,866 ha compare
- 10 Lao People's Democratic Republic 7,946 ha compare
- 11 Mozambique 100,470 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
- 14 Polynesia 719 ha compare
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- Cabbages — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 0.1616 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 0.5537 % change on previous year (2024)
- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 0.1198 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 0.3076 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Timor-Leste?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Timor-Leste was 1,927 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Timor-Leste?
- The highest recorded value was 7,000 ha in 2002.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Timor-Leste?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,718 ha in 2022.
- How does Timor-Leste rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Timor-Leste ranks 11th out of 16 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Timor-Leste?
- Over the last ten years it is down 18.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Timor-Leste 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.