Sweet potatoes — Food in United States
United States: Sweet potatoes — Food was 840 1000 t in 2023. ▬ Flat
Sweet potatoes — Food in United States, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 t.
Analysis
United States recorded 840 1000 t for sweet potatoes — food in 2023. That is the lowest value across all 14 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 13.5% on the previous year and down 5.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — food in United States peaked at 1,183 1000 t in 2019 and was at its lowest, 840 1000 t, in 2023.
That places United States 12th out of 176 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the top 10%.
Sweet potatoes — Food in United States, year by year
| Year | 1000 t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 885 1000 t | — |
| 2011 | 1,008 1000 t | +13.9% |
| 2012 | 989 1000 t | -1.9% |
| 2013 | 892 1000 t | -9.8% |
| 2014 | 972 1000 t | +9.0% |
| 2015 | 975 1000 t | +0.3% |
| 2016 | 979 1000 t | +0.4% |
| 2017 | 984 1000 t | +0.5% |
| 2018 | 984 1000 t | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 1,183 1000 t | +20.2% |
| 2020 | 986 1000 t | -16.7% |
| 2021 | 1,008 1000 t | +2.2% |
| 2022 | 971 1000 t | -3.7% |
| 2023 | 840 1000 t | -13.5% |
United States compared with similar countries
- United States's 840 1000 t is above the median for high income countries, which is 1 1000 t, 840.0× the median. (49 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 985.1 1000 t | 885 1000 t | 1,183 1000 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 951.25 1000 t | 840 1000 t | 1,008 1000 t | 4 |
Countries ranked near United States
More agriculture & rural data for United States
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 11.96 % change on previous year (2021)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0094 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2021)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 673.66 current US$ per person (2021)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.1831 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1981 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 0.9% (2021)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 0.9% (2021)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — food in United States?
- Sweet potatoes — food in United States was 840 1000 t in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — food recorded in United States?
- The highest recorded value was 1,183 1000 t in 2019.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — food recorded in United States?
- The lowest recorded value was 840 1000 t in 2023.
- How does United States rank for sweet potatoes — food?
- United States ranks 12th out of 176 countries with data for 2023.
- Is sweet potatoes — food rising or falling in United States?
- Over the last ten years it is down 5.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this United States 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.