Sweet potatoes — Food supply in Ethiopia
Ethiopia: Sweet potatoes — Food supply was 1.15 million million Kcal in 2023. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Food supply in Ethiopia, 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 Ethiopia is 1.15 million million Kcal, measured in 2023.
That represents a change of up 31.3% on the previous year and down 23.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — food supply in Ethiopia peaked at 2.75 million million Kcal in 2014 and was at its lowest, 799,727 million Kcal, in 2021.
That places Ethiopia 7th out of 156 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Food supply in Ethiopia, year by year
| Year | million Kcal | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1.00 million million Kcal | — |
| 2011 | 1.07 million million Kcal | +6.9% |
| 2012 | 1.19 million million Kcal | +10.3% |
| 2013 | 1.49 million million Kcal | +25.9% |
| 2014 | 2.75 million million Kcal | +84.3% |
| 2015 | 1.45 million million Kcal | -47.2% |
| 2016 | 1.48 million million Kcal | +1.7% |
| 2017 | 1.60 million million Kcal | +8.4% |
| 2018 | 1.32 million million Kcal | -17.4% |
| 2019 | 1.56 million million Kcal | +18.1% |
| 2020 | 1.42 million million Kcal | -9.4% |
| 2021 | 799,727 million Kcal | -43.5% |
| 2022 | 872,915 million Kcal | +9.2% |
| 2023 | 1.15 million million Kcal | +31.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1.49 million million Kcal | 1.00 million million Kcal | 2.75 million million Kcal | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.06 million million Kcal | 799,727 million Kcal | 1.42 million million Kcal | 4 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Ethiopia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -20.36 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3282 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 306.11 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.93 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0008 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7589 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 32.82 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 32.82 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 9.7% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — food supply in Ethiopia?
- Sweet potatoes — food supply in Ethiopia was 1.15 million million Kcal in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — food supply recorded in Ethiopia?
- The highest recorded value was 2.75 million million Kcal in 2014.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — food supply recorded in Ethiopia?
- The lowest recorded value was 799,727 million Kcal in 2021.
- How does Ethiopia rank for sweet potatoes — food supply?
- Ethiopia ranks 7th out of 156 countries with data for 2023.
- Is sweet potatoes — food supply rising or falling in Ethiopia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 23.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Ethiopia 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.