Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Viet Nam
Viet Nam: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 80,807 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Viet Nam, 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 Viet Nam is 80,807 ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.4% on the previous year and down 38.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Viet Nam peaked at 450,000 ha in 1980 and was at its lowest, 79,700 ha, in 2023.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Viet Nam, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 245,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 234,000 ha | -4.5% |
| 1963 | 231,000 ha | -1.3% |
| 1964 | 233,000 ha | +0.9% |
| 1965 | 229,000 ha | -1.7% |
| 1966 | 225,000 ha | -1.7% |
| 1967 | 225,800 ha | +0.4% |
| 1968 | 225,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 222,000 ha | -1.7% |
| 1970 | 223,000 ha | +0.5% |
| 1971 | 223,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 233,000 ha | +4.5% |
| 1973 | 230,000 ha | -1.3% |
| 1974 | 230,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 205,300 ha | -10.7% |
| 1976 | 248,900 ha | +21.2% |
| 1977 | 324,800 ha | +30.5% |
| 1978 | 355,100 ha | +9.3% |
| 1979 | 396,200 ha | +11.6% |
| 1980 | 450,000 ha | +13.6% |
| 1981 | 441,100 ha | -2.0% |
| 1982 | 406,000 ha | -8.0% |
| 1983 | 357,400 ha | -12.0% |
| 1984 | 327,600 ha | -8.3% |
| 1985 | 319,800 ha | -2.4% |
| 1986 | 329,000 ha | +2.9% |
| 1987 | 332,250 ha | +1.0% |
| 1988 | 336,160 ha | +1.2% |
| 1989 | 327,300 ha | -2.6% |
| 1990 | 321,100 ha | -1.9% |
| 1991 | 356,100 ha | +10.9% |
| 1992 | 404,900 ha | +13.7% |
| 1993 | 387,100 ha | -4.4% |
| 1994 | 343,700 ha | -11.2% |
| 1995 | 304,600 ha | -11.4% |
| 1996 | 302,700 ha | -0.6% |
| 1997 | 267,200 ha | -11.7% |
| 1998 | 253,236 ha | -5.2% |
| 1999 | 270,200 ha | +6.7% |
| 2000 | 254,300 ha | -5.9% |
| 2001 | 244,600 ha | -3.8% |
| 2002 | 237,700 ha | -2.8% |
| 2003 | 219,600 ha | -7.6% |
| 2004 | 201,800 ha | -8.1% |
| 2005 | 185,300 ha | -8.2% |
| 2006 | 181,200 ha | -2.2% |
| 2007 | 175,500 ha | -3.1% |
| 2008 | 162,600 ha | -7.4% |
| 2009 | 146,600 ha | -9.8% |
| 2010 | 150,800 ha | +2.9% |
| 2011 | 146,821 ha | -2.6% |
| 2012 | 141,521 ha | -3.6% |
| 2013 | 135,489 ha | -4.3% |
| 2014 | 130,537 ha | -3.7% |
| 2015 | 127,468 ha | -2.4% |
| 2016 | 120,635 ha | -5.4% |
| 2017 | 121,634 ha | +0.8% |
| 2018 | 117,933 ha | -3.0% |
| 2019 | 116,906 ha | -0.9% |
| 2020 | 109,014 ha | -6.8% |
| 2021 | 98,193 ha | -9.9% |
| 2022 | 85,821 ha | -12.6% |
| 2023 | 79,700 ha | -7.1% |
| 2024 | 80,807 ha | +1.4% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Viet Nam 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | +30.5% | 248,900 ha | 324,800 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 230,067 ha | 222,000 ha | 245,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 266,930 ha | 205,300 ha | 396,200 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 362,661 ha | 319,800 ha | 450,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 321,084 ha | 253,236 ha | 404,900 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 200,920 ha | 146,600 ha | 254,300 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 130,974 ha | 116,906 ha | 150,800 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 90,707 ha | 79,700 ha | 109,014 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Viet Nam
- 5 Uganda 221,783 ha compare
- 6 Angola 200,311 ha compare
- 6 Melanesia 153,788 ha compare
- 7 Democratic Republic of the Congo 124,893 ha compare
- 7 Rwanda 179,717 ha compare
- 8 Madagascar 150,429 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
- 11 Timor-Leste 1,927 ha compare
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- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 0.4916 % change on previous year (2024)
- Raw milk of cattle — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 4.62 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 0.6306 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cereals, primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -0.1419 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 0.9155 % change on previous year (2024)
- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) -0.267 % change on previous year (2024)
- Milk, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 4.43 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat indigenous, total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -0.8196 % change on previous year (2024)
- Potatoes — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 4.05 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 1.39 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Viet Nam?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Viet Nam was 80,807 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Viet Nam?
- The highest recorded value was 450,000 ha in 1980.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Viet Nam?
- The lowest recorded value was 79,700 ha in 2023.
- How does Viet Nam rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Viet Nam ranks 8th out of 16 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Viet Nam?
- Over the last ten years it is down 38.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Viet Nam 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.