Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of): Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 1,745 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) recorded 1,745 ha for sweet potatoes — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 3.1% on the previous year and down 13.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) peaked at 2,936 ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 746 ha, in 2008.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,714 ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,668 ha | -2.7% |
| 1963 | 1,620 ha | -2.9% |
| 1964 | 1,596 ha | -1.5% |
| 1965 | 1,513 ha | -5.2% |
| 1966 | 1,389 ha | -8.2% |
| 1967 | 1,430 ha | +3.0% |
| 1968 | 1,458 ha | +2.0% |
| 1969 | 1,400 ha | -4.0% |
| 1970 | 1,688 ha | +20.6% |
| 1971 | 1,485 ha | -12.0% |
| 1972 | 1,572 ha | +5.9% |
| 1973 | 1,612 ha | +2.5% |
| 1974 | 1,578 ha | -2.1% |
| 1975 | 1,280 ha | -18.9% |
| 1976 | 1,499 ha | +17.1% |
| 1977 | 1,036 ha | -30.9% |
| 1978 | 1,184 ha | +14.3% |
| 1979 | 1,332 ha | +12.5% |
| 1980 | 888 ha | -33.3% |
| 1981 | 1,223 ha | +37.7% |
| 1982 | 1,283 ha | +4.9% |
| 1983 | 1,372 ha | +6.9% |
| 1984 | 1,492 ha | +8.7% |
| 1985 | 1,504 ha | +0.8% |
| 1986 | 1,478 ha | -1.7% |
| 1987 | 1,598 ha | +8.1% |
| 1988 | 1,587 ha | -0.7% |
| 1989 | 1,561 ha | -1.6% |
| 1990 | 1,536 ha | -1.6% |
| 1991 | 1,495 ha | -2.7% |
| 1992 | 1,350 ha | -9.7% |
| 1993 | 1,232 ha | -8.7% |
| 1994 | 2,353 ha | +91.0% |
| 1995 | 1,614 ha | -31.4% |
| 1996 | 1,824 ha | +13.0% |
| 1997 | 1,867 ha | +2.4% |
| 1998 | 1,381 ha | -26.0% |
| 1999 | 1,530 ha | +10.8% |
| 2000 | 1,148 ha | -25.0% |
| 2001 | 1,148 ha | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 771 ha | -32.8% |
| 2003 | 1,348 ha | +74.8% |
| 2004 | 1,175 ha | -12.8% |
| 2005 | 1,466 ha | +24.8% |
| 2006 | 1,493 ha | +1.8% |
| 2007 | 1,215 ha | -18.6% |
| 2008 | 746 ha | -38.6% |
| 2009 | 750 ha | +0.5% |
| 2010 | 1,190 ha | +58.7% |
| 2011 | 1,241 ha | +4.3% |
| 2012 | 1,345 ha | +8.4% |
| 2013 | 1,469 ha | +9.2% |
| 2014 | 2,017 ha | +37.3% |
| 2015 | 1,966 ha | -2.5% |
| 2016 | 2,100 ha | +6.8% |
| 2017 | 2,936 ha | +39.8% |
| 2018 | 1,569 ha | -46.6% |
| 2019 | 1,960 ha | +24.9% |
| 2020 | 2,007 ha | +2.4% |
| 2021 | 1,743 ha | -13.2% |
| 2022 | 2,101 ha | +20.5% |
| 2023 | 1,801 ha | -14.3% |
| 2024 | 1,745 ha | -3.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,532 ha | 1,389 ha | 1,714 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,427 ha | 1,036 ha | 1,688 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,399 ha | 888 ha | 1,598 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,618 ha | 1,232 ha | 2,353 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,126 ha | 746 ha | 1,493 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,779 ha | 1,190 ha | 2,936 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,879 ha | 1,743 ha | 2,101 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) was 1,745 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)?
- The highest recorded value was 2,936 ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)?
- The lowest recorded value was 746 ha in 2008.
- How does Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) ranks 12th out of 16 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 13.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 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.