Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Western Asia
Western Asia: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 1,185 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Western Asia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Western Asia recorded 1,185 ha for sweet potatoes — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is down 36.8% on the previous year and down 54.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Western Asia peaked at 5,011 ha in 2008 and was at its lowest, 11 ha, in 1961.
Western Asia ranks 24th of 26 groups 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 Western Asia, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 11 ha | — |
| 1962 | 11 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 11 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 14 ha | +27.3% |
| 1965 | 18 ha | +28.6% |
| 1966 | 18 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 21 ha | +16.7% |
| 1968 | 26 ha | +23.8% |
| 1969 | 26 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 26 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 16 ha | -38.5% |
| 1972 | 14 ha | -12.5% |
| 1973 | 13 ha | -7.1% |
| 1974 | 16 ha | +23.1% |
| 1975 | 14 ha | -12.5% |
| 1976 | 28 ha | +100.0% |
| 1977 | 28 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 29 ha | +3.6% |
| 1979 | 29 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 30 ha | +3.4% |
| 1981 | 38 ha | +26.7% |
| 1982 | 53 ha | +39.5% |
| 1983 | 43 ha | -18.9% |
| 1984 | 58 ha | +34.9% |
| 1985 | 83 ha | +43.1% |
| 1986 | 113 ha | +36.1% |
| 1987 | 60 ha | -46.9% |
| 1988 | 122 ha | +103.3% |
| 1989 | 133 ha | +9.0% |
| 1990 | 158 ha | +18.8% |
| 1991 | 423 ha | +167.7% |
| 1992 | 369 ha | -12.8% |
| 1993 | 539 ha | +46.1% |
| 1994 | 630 ha | +16.9% |
| 1995 | 731 ha | +16.0% |
| 1996 | 830 ha | +13.5% |
| 1997 | 955 ha | +15.1% |
| 1998 | 1,194 ha | +25.0% |
| 1999 | 1,094 ha | -8.4% |
| 2000 | 1,479 ha | +35.2% |
| 2001 | 1,694 ha | +14.5% |
| 2002 | 1,912 ha | +12.9% |
| 2003 | 2,215 ha | +15.8% |
| 2004 | 2,685 ha | +21.2% |
| 2005 | 2,668 ha | -0.6% |
| 2006 | 3,274 ha | +22.7% |
| 2007 | 3,694 ha | +12.8% |
| 2008 | 5,011 ha | +35.7% |
| 2009 | 3,584 ha | -28.5% |
| 2010 | 2,249 ha | -37.2% |
| 2011 | 2,262 ha | +0.6% |
| 2012 | 2,616 ha | +15.6% |
| 2013 | 2,608 ha | -0.3% |
| 2014 | 2,626 ha | +0.7% |
| 2015 | 2,635 ha | +0.3% |
| 2016 | 2,634 ha | -0.0% |
| 2017 | 2,642 ha | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 3,076 ha | +16.4% |
| 2019 | 2,550 ha | -17.1% |
| 2020 | 2,500 ha | -2.0% |
| 2021 | 2,575 ha | +3.0% |
| 2022 | 2,086 ha | -19.0% |
| 2023 | 1,874 ha | -10.2% |
| 2024 | 1,185 ha | -36.8% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Western Asia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | +167.7% | 158 ha | 423 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 17.33 ha | 11 ha | 26 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 21.3 ha | 13 ha | 29 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 73.3 ha | 30 ha | 133 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 692.3 ha | 158 ha | 1,194 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,822 ha | 1,479 ha | 5,011 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,590 ha | 2,249 ha | 3,076 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,044 ha | 1,185 ha | 2,575 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Western Asia
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- Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — Yield, annual -3.49 % change on previous year (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Western Asia?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Western Asia was 1,185 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Western Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 5,011 ha in 2008.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Western Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 11 ha in 1961.
- How does Western Asia rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Western Asia ranks 24th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Western Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 54.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Western Asia 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.