Sweet potatoes — Food in Americas
Americas: Sweet potatoes — Food was 2,122 1000 t in 2023. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Food in Americas, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 t.
Analysis
In 2023, sweet potatoes — food in Americas stood at 2,122 1000 t. That is the lowest value across all 14 years on record.
That represents a change of down 6.1% on the previous year and down 19.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — food in Americas peaked at 2,914 1000 t in 2014 and was at its lowest, 2,122 1000 t, in 2023.
That places Americas 13th out of 31 groups with data for 2023, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 2,650 1000 t | 2,534 1000 t | 2,914 1000 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,254 1000 t | 2,122 1000 t | 2,352 1000 t | 4 |
Countries ranked near Americas
- 10 Madagascar 1,041 1000 t compare
- 11 India 1,030 1000 t compare
- 12 Malawi 767 1000 t compare
- 13 Melanesia 759 1000 t compare
- 14 Papua New Guinea 625 1000 t compare
- 15 Democratic Republic of the Congo 566 1000 t compare
- 16 Kenya 538 1000 t compare
More agriculture & rural data for Americas
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 94 kg/An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 25.19 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532,819 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 63,435 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 397,122 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 1.02 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 267.48 million An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 25.17 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.37 million ha (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 191.53 million An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — food in Americas?
- Sweet potatoes — food in Americas was 2,122 1000 t in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — food recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 2,914 1000 t in 2014.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — food recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,122 1000 t in 2023.
- How does Americas rank for sweet potatoes — food?
- Americas ranks 13th out of 31 groups with data for 2023.
- Is sweet potatoes — food rising or falling in Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is down 19.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Americas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sweet potatoes — Food. 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.