Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Togo
Togo: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 1,933 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Togo, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Togo recorded 1,933 ha for sweet potatoes — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 11.2% on the previous year and down 47.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Togo peaked at 6,959 ha in 1993 and was at its lowest, 231 ha, in 1995.
Togo ranks 63rd of 113 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Togo, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 2,000 ha | +100.0% |
| 1965 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 2,002 ha | +0.1% |
| 1967 | 2,312 ha | +15.5% |
| 1968 | 2,000 ha | -13.5% |
| 1969 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 500 ha | -75.0% |
| 1971 | 1,000 ha | +100.0% |
| 1972 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 900 ha | -10.0% |
| 1982 | 800 ha | -11.1% |
| 1983 | 700 ha | -12.5% |
| 1984 | 600 ha | -14.3% |
| 1985 | 500 ha | -16.7% |
| 1986 | 251 ha | -49.8% |
| 1987 | 792 ha | +215.5% |
| 1988 | 700 ha | -11.6% |
| 1989 | 1,625 ha | +132.1% |
| 1990 | 1,504 ha | -7.4% |
| 1991 | 390 ha | -74.1% |
| 1992 | 2,276 ha | +483.6% |
| 1993 | 6,959 ha | +205.8% |
| 1994 | 2,023 ha | -70.9% |
| 1995 | 231 ha | -88.6% |
| 1996 | 3,266 ha | +1313.9% |
| 1997 | 965 ha | -70.5% |
| 1998 | 1,286 ha | +33.3% |
| 1999 | 2,036 ha | +58.3% |
| 2000 | 1,643 ha | -19.3% |
| 2001 | 1,831 ha | +11.4% |
| 2002 | 1,494 ha | -18.4% |
| 2003 | 814 ha | -45.5% |
| 2004 | 631 ha | -22.5% |
| 2005 | 793 ha | +25.7% |
| 2006 | 296 ha | -62.7% |
| 2007 | 400 ha | +35.1% |
| 2008 | 597 ha | +49.2% |
| 2009 | 597 ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 603 ha | +1.0% |
| 2011 | 598 ha | -0.8% |
| 2012 | 5,984 ha | +900.7% |
| 2013 | 5,163 ha | -13.7% |
| 2014 | 3,691 ha | -28.5% |
| 2015 | 2,326 ha | -37.0% |
| 2016 | 819 ha | -64.8% |
| 2017 | 2,535 ha | +209.5% |
| 2018 | 2,348 ha | -7.4% |
| 2019 | 2,375 ha | +1.1% |
| 2020 | 2,564 ha | +8.0% |
| 2021 | 2,666 ha | +4.0% |
| 2022 | 2,738 ha | +2.7% |
| 2023 | 2,178 ha | -20.5% |
| 2024 | 1,933 ha | -11.2% |
Togo compared with similar countries
- Togo's 1,933 ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 9,882 ha, 20% of the median. (28 countries reporting)
- Togo's 1,933 ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 28,960 ha, 7% of the median. (36 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Togo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | +1313.9% | 231 ha | 3,266 ha |
| 2012 | +900.7% | 598 ha | 5,984 ha |
| 1992 | +483.6% | 390 ha | 2,276 ha |
| 1987 | +215.5% | 251 ha | 792 ha |
| 2017 | +209.5% | 819 ha | 2,535 ha |
| 1993 | +205.8% | 2,276 ha | 6,959 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,702 ha | 1,000 ha | 2,312 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 950 ha | 500 ha | 1,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 786.8 ha | 251 ha | 1,625 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,094 ha | 231 ha | 6,959 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 909.6 ha | 296 ha | 1,831 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,644 ha | 598 ha | 5,984 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,416 ha | 1,933 ha | 2,738 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Togo
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 6.38 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2033 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 281.29 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.15 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0004 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5561 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 20.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 20.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.4% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Togo?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Togo was 1,933 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Togo?
- The highest recorded value was 6,959 ha in 1993.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Togo?
- The lowest recorded value was 231 ha in 1995.
- How does Togo rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Togo ranks 63rd out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Togo?
- Over the last ten years it is down 47.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Togo 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.