Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 160 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago stood at 160 ha.
The figure is down 0.6% on the previous year and down 49.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago peaked at 481 ha in 2010 and was at its lowest, 2 ha, in 1986.
Trinidad and Tobago ranks 86th 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 Trinidad and Tobago, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 172 ha | — |
| 1962 | 257 ha | +49.4% |
| 1963 | 257 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 441 ha | +71.6% |
| 1965 | 444 ha | +0.7% |
| 1966 | 451 ha | +1.6% |
| 1967 | 471 ha | +4.4% |
| 1968 | 425 ha | -9.8% |
| 1969 | 467 ha | +9.9% |
| 1970 | 441 ha | -5.6% |
| 1971 | 452 ha | +2.5% |
| 1972 | 300 ha | -33.6% |
| 1973 | 227 ha | -24.3% |
| 1974 | 263 ha | +15.9% |
| 1975 | 227 ha | -13.7% |
| 1976 | 250 ha | +10.1% |
| 1977 | 260 ha | +4.0% |
| 1978 | 226 ha | -13.1% |
| 1979 | 200 ha | -11.5% |
| 1980 | 200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 190 ha | -5.0% |
| 1982 | 170 ha | -10.5% |
| 1983 | 90 ha | -47.1% |
| 1984 | 20 ha | -77.8% |
| 1985 | 8 ha | -60.0% |
| 1986 | 2 ha | -75.0% |
| 1987 | 8 ha | +300.0% |
| 1988 | 15 ha | +87.5% |
| 1989 | 30 ha | +100.0% |
| 1990 | 12 ha | -60.0% |
| 1991 | 8 ha | -33.3% |
| 1992 | 12 ha | +50.0% |
| 1993 | 25 ha | +108.3% |
| 1994 | 12 ha | -52.0% |
| 1995 | 75 ha | +525.0% |
| 1996 | 45 ha | -40.0% |
| 1997 | 20 ha | -55.6% |
| 1998 | 45 ha | +125.0% |
| 1999 | 35 ha | -22.2% |
| 2000 | 28 ha | -20.0% |
| 2001 | 30 ha | +7.1% |
| 2002 | 45 ha | +50.0% |
| 2003 | 35 ha | -22.2% |
| 2004 | 54 ha | +54.3% |
| 2005 | 21 ha | -61.1% |
| 2006 | 45 ha | +114.3% |
| 2007 | 25 ha | -44.4% |
| 2008 | 46 ha | +84.0% |
| 2009 | 138 ha | +200.0% |
| 2010 | 481 ha | +248.6% |
| 2011 | 401 ha | -16.6% |
| 2012 | 365 ha | -9.0% |
| 2013 | 407 ha | +11.5% |
| 2014 | 316 ha | -22.4% |
| 2015 | 424 ha | +34.2% |
| 2016 | 400 ha | -5.7% |
| 2017 | 401 ha | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 231 ha | -42.4% |
| 2019 | 169 ha | -26.8% |
| 2020 | 259 ha | +53.3% |
| 2021 | 235 ha | -9.3% |
| 2022 | 193 ha | -17.9% |
| 2023 | 161 ha | -16.6% |
| 2024 | 160 ha | -0.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 376.11 ha | 172 ha | 471 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 284.6 ha | 200 ha | 452 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 73.3 ha | 2 ha | 200 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 28.9 ha | 8 ha | 75 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 46.7 ha | 21 ha | 138 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 359.5 ha | 169 ha | 481 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 201.6 ha | 160 ha | 259 ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0078 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 145.68 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.0602 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4603 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 0.8% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 0.8% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago was 160 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Trinidad and Tobago?
- The highest recorded value was 481 ha in 2010.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Trinidad and Tobago?
- The lowest recorded value was 2 ha in 1986.
- How does Trinidad and Tobago rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Trinidad and Tobago ranks 86th out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Over the last ten years it is down 49.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Trinidad and Tobago 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.