Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Tonga
Tonga: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 671 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Tonga, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — area harvested in Tonga is 671 ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 0.3% on the previous year and up 9.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Tonga peaked at 1,300 ha in 1972 and was at its lowest, 249 ha, in 1999.
That places Tonga 75th out of 113 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Tonga, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,100 ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,100 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 1,100 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 1,200 ha | +9.1% |
| 1965 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 1,100 ha | -8.3% |
| 1971 | 1,200 ha | +9.1% |
| 1972 | 1,300 ha | +8.3% |
| 1973 | 1,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 1,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 1,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 1,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 1,200 ha | -7.7% |
| 1978 | 1,100 ha | -8.3% |
| 1979 | 990 ha | -10.0% |
| 1980 | 1,000 ha | +1.0% |
| 1981 | 920 ha | -8.0% |
| 1982 | 850 ha | -7.6% |
| 1983 | 780 ha | -8.2% |
| 1984 | 700 ha | -10.3% |
| 1985 | 630 ha | -10.0% |
| 1986 | 560 ha | -11.1% |
| 1987 | 480 ha | -14.3% |
| 1988 | 400 ha | -16.7% |
| 1989 | 330 ha | -17.5% |
| 1990 | 270 ha | -18.2% |
| 1991 | 259 ha | -4.1% |
| 1992 | 310 ha | +19.7% |
| 1993 | 645 ha | +108.1% |
| 1994 | 500 ha | -22.5% |
| 1995 | 416 ha | -16.8% |
| 1996 | 430 ha | +3.4% |
| 1997 | 450 ha | +4.7% |
| 1998 | 500 ha | +11.1% |
| 1999 | 249 ha | -50.2% |
| 2000 | 648 ha | +160.2% |
| 2001 | 450 ha | -30.6% |
| 2002 | 500 ha | +11.1% |
| 2003 | 504 ha | +0.8% |
| 2004 | 508 ha | +0.8% |
| 2005 | 516 ha | +1.6% |
| 2006 | 550 ha | +6.6% |
| 2007 | 600 ha | +9.1% |
| 2008 | 561 ha | -6.5% |
| 2009 | 572 ha | +2.0% |
| 2010 | 582 ha | +1.7% |
| 2011 | 590 ha | +1.4% |
| 2012 | 600 ha | +1.7% |
| 2013 | 600 ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 611 ha | +1.8% |
| 2015 | 626 ha | +2.5% |
| 2016 | 636 ha | +1.6% |
| 2017 | 639 ha | +0.5% |
| 2018 | 654 ha | +2.3% |
| 2019 | 663 ha | +1.4% |
| 2020 | 652 ha | -1.7% |
| 2021 | 674 ha | +3.4% |
| 2022 | 665 ha | -1.3% |
| 2023 | 673 ha | +1.2% |
| 2024 | 671 ha | -0.3% |
Tonga compared with similar countries
- Tonga's 671 ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 2,598 ha, 26% of the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Tonga's 671 ha is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 4,397 ha, 15% of the median. (16 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Tonga 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 | +160.2% | 249 ha | 648 ha |
| 1993 | +108.1% | 310 ha | 645 ha |
| 1999 | -50.2% | 500 ha | 249 ha |
| 2001 | -30.6% | 648 ha | 450 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,167 ha | 1,100 ha | 1,200 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,209 ha | 990 ha | 1,300 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 665 ha | 330 ha | 1,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 402.9 ha | 249 ha | 645 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 540.9 ha | 450 ha | 648 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 620.1 ha | 582 ha | 663 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 667 ha | 652 ha | 674 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Tonga
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 7.27 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1857 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,154 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.4224 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7884 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 18.6% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 18.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.7% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Tonga?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Tonga was 671 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Tonga?
- The highest recorded value was 1,300 ha in 1972.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Tonga?
- The lowest recorded value was 249 ha in 1999.
- How does Tonga rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Tonga ranks 75th out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Tonga?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Tonga 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.