Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in World
World: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 7.22 million ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in World, 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 World is 7.22 million ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 0.5% on the previous year and down 8.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in World peaked at 13.63 million ha in 1962 and was at its lowest, 7.15 million ha, in 2022.
That places World 1st out of 29 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12.24 million ha | 11.13 million ha | 13.63 million ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 12.00 million ha | 11.37 million ha | 12.74 million ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9.51 million ha | 8.98 million ha | 10.76 million ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9.23 million ha | 8.96 million ha | 9.75 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8.85 million ha | 7.81 million ha | 9.80 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7.69 million ha | 7.22 million ha | 7.92 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 7.23 million ha | 7.15 million ha | 7.33 million ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near World
- 1 China 2.32 million ha compare
- 2 China, mainland 2.31 million ha compare
- 3 Nigeria 1.51 million ha compare
- 4 United Republic of Tanzania 346,027 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for World
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.2% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
- Rural population 42.2% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.3% (2025)
- Rural population 3.46 billion (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.0% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.75 trillion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 139.41 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 5.88 million ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 6.05 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in World?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in World was 7.22 million ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in World?
- The highest recorded value was 13.63 million ha in 1962.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in World?
- The lowest recorded value was 7.15 million ha in 2022.
- How does World rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- World ranks 1st out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in World?
- Over the last ten years it is down 8.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this World 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.