Sweet potatoes — Food in Middle Africa
Middle Africa: Sweet potatoes — Food was 2,773 1000 t in 2023. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Food in Middle Africa, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — food in Middle Africa is 2,773 1000 t, measured in 2023. That is the highest value across all 14 years on record.
The figure is up 3.9% on the previous year and up 63.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — food in Middle Africa peaked at 2,773 1000 t in 2023 and was at its lowest, 1,252 1000 t, in 2010.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 14 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Food in Middle Africa, year by year
| Year | 1000 t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,252 1000 t | — |
| 2011 | 1,449 1000 t | +15.7% |
| 2012 | 1,602 1000 t | +10.6% |
| 2013 | 1,697 1000 t | +5.9% |
| 2014 | 1,888 1000 t | +11.3% |
| 2015 | 1,921 1000 t | +1.7% |
| 2016 | 1,982 1000 t | +3.2% |
| 2017 | 2,000 1000 t | +0.9% |
| 2018 | 2,045 1000 t | +2.2% |
| 2019 | 2,390 1000 t | +16.9% |
| 2020 | 2,324 1000 t | -2.8% |
| 2021 | 2,523 1000 t | +8.6% |
| 2022 | 2,668 1000 t | +5.7% |
| 2023 | 2,773 1000 t | +3.9% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1,823 1000 t | 1,252 1000 t | 2,390 1000 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,572 1000 t | 2,324 1000 t | 2,773 1000 t | 4 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — food in Middle Africa?
- Sweet potatoes — food in Middle Africa was 2,773 1000 t in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — food recorded in Middle Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 2,773 1000 t in 2023.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — food recorded in Middle Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,252 1000 t in 2010.
- How does Middle Africa rank for sweet potatoes — food?
- Middle Africa ranks 3rd out of 18 regions with data for 2023.
- Is sweet potatoes — food rising or falling in Middle Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 63.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Middle Africa 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.