Sweet potatoes — Food in Caribbean
Caribbean: Sweet potatoes — Food was 388 1000 t in 2023. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Food in Caribbean, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 t.
Analysis
In 2023, sweet potatoes — food in Caribbean stood at 388 1000 t. That is the lowest value across all 14 years on record.
That represents a change of down 8.3% on the previous year and down 49.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — food in Caribbean peaked at 914 1000 t in 2014 and was at its lowest, 388 1000 t, in 2023.
Caribbean ranks 22nd of 176 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Food in Caribbean, year by year
| Year | 1000 t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 690 1000 t | — |
| 2011 | 646 1000 t | -6.4% |
| 2012 | 707 1000 t | +9.4% |
| 2013 | 763 1000 t | +7.9% |
| 2014 | 914 1000 t | +19.8% |
| 2015 | 810 1000 t | -11.4% |
| 2016 | 728 1000 t | -10.1% |
| 2017 | 635 1000 t | -12.8% |
| 2018 | 606 1000 t | -4.6% |
| 2019 | 528 1000 t | -12.9% |
| 2020 | 428 1000 t | -18.9% |
| 2021 | 433 1000 t | +1.2% |
| 2022 | 423 1000 t | -2.3% |
| 2023 | 388 1000 t | -8.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 702.7 1000 t | 528 1000 t | 914 1000 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 418 1000 t | 388 1000 t | 433 1000 t | 4 |
Countries ranked near Caribbean
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- Agriculture — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 9.33 % change on previous year (2024)
- Raw milk of cattle — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.98 % change on previous year (2024)
- Potatoes — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 6.87 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant) 3.46 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other fruits, n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 5.08 % change on previous year (2024)
- Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — Gross Production 12.25 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross -2.69 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 8.98 % change on previous year (2024)
- Maize (corn) — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 17.88 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — food in Caribbean?
- Sweet potatoes — food in Caribbean was 388 1000 t in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — food recorded in Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 914 1000 t in 2014.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — food recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 388 1000 t in 2023.
- How does Caribbean rank for sweet potatoes — food?
- Caribbean ranks 22nd out of 176 countries with data for 2023.
- Is sweet potatoes — food 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. 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.