Sweet potatoes — Food supply in Caribbean
Caribbean: Sweet potatoes — Food supply was 380,022 million Kcal in 2023. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Food supply in Caribbean, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in million Kcal.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — food supply in Caribbean is 380,022 million Kcal, measured in 2023. That is the lowest value across all 14 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 8.3% on the previous year and down 49.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — food supply in Caribbean peaked at 895,598 million Kcal in 2014 and was at its lowest, 380,022 million Kcal, in 2023.
Caribbean ranks 17th of 29 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Food supply in Caribbean, year by year
| Year | million Kcal | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 675,766 million Kcal | — |
| 2011 | 632,738 million Kcal | -6.4% |
| 2012 | 692,403 million Kcal | +9.4% |
| 2013 | 747,038 million Kcal | +7.9% |
| 2014 | 895,598 million Kcal | +19.9% |
| 2015 | 793,236 million Kcal | -11.4% |
| 2016 | 713,327 million Kcal | -10.1% |
| 2017 | 622,293 million Kcal | -12.8% |
| 2018 | 594,155 million Kcal | -4.5% |
| 2019 | 517,511 million Kcal | -12.9% |
| 2020 | 419,028 million Kcal | -19.0% |
| 2021 | 423,730 million Kcal | +1.1% |
| 2022 | 414,258 million Kcal | -2.2% |
| 2023 | 380,022 million Kcal | -8.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 688,406 million Kcal | 517,511 million Kcal | 895,598 million Kcal | 10 |
| 2020s | 409,260 million Kcal | 380,022 million Kcal | 423,730 million Kcal | 4 |
Countries ranked near Caribbean
- 14 Philippines 485,320 million Kcal compare
- 15 Cameroon 459,862 million Kcal compare
- 16 Cuba 392,685 million Kcal compare
- 17 Mozambique 383,362 million Kcal compare
- 18 Brazil 326,738 million Kcal compare
- 19 Bangladesh 275,082 million Kcal compare
- 20 Guinea 262,328 million Kcal compare
More agriculture & rural data for Caribbean
- Tomatoes — Production, annual growth rate 7.68 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cabbages — Yield 19,733 kg/ha (2024)
- Vegetables Primary — Production 3.38 million t (2024)
- Pulses, Total — Production 261,042 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 513,993 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 9,994 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 51,432 ha (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 136,188 t (2024)
- Cabbages — Area harvested 8,527 ha (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 1.91 million An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — food supply in Caribbean?
- Sweet potatoes — food supply in Caribbean was 380,022 million Kcal in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — food supply recorded in Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 895,598 million Kcal in 2014.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — food supply recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 380,022 million Kcal in 2023.
- How does Caribbean rank for sweet potatoes — food supply?
- Caribbean ranks 17th out of 29 groups with data for 2023.
- Is sweet potatoes — food supply rising or falling in Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is down 49.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Caribbean data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sweet potatoes — Food supply (kcal). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per caput supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it. Data on per capita food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.