Sweet potatoes — Production, per capita in Cameroon
Cameroon: Sweet potatoes — Production, per capita was 0.0217 t per person in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Production, per capita in Cameroon, 1961–2024
Source: Statizoid (derived). Measured in t per person.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — production, per capita in Cameroon is 0.0217 t per person, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 1.6% on the previous year and up 32.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — production, per capita in Cameroon peaked at 0.0232 t per person in 1970 and was at its lowest, 0.0085 t per person, in 1991.
That places Cameroon 17th out of 99 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Production, per capita in Cameroon, year by year
| Year | t per person | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 0.0231 t per person | — |
| 1962 | 0.0206 t per person | -10.8% |
| 1963 | 0.0185 t per person | -10.2% |
| 1964 | 0.0163 t per person | -11.8% |
| 1965 | 0.0195 t per person | +19.2% |
| 1966 | 0.0164 t per person | -15.9% |
| 1967 | 0.0174 t per person | +6.1% |
| 1968 | 0.0183 t per person | +5.4% |
| 1969 | 0.02 t per person | +9.1% |
| 1970 | 0.0232 t per person | +16.0% |
| 1971 | 0.0193 t per person | -16.8% |
| 1972 | 0.0228 t per person | +18.3% |
| 1973 | 0.0206 t per person | -9.5% |
| 1974 | 0.0209 t per person | +1.2% |
| 1975 | 0.0189 t per person | -9.4% |
| 1976 | 0.0184 t per person | -2.6% |
| 1977 | 0.0173 t per person | -6.0% |
| 1978 | 0.0168 t per person | -2.7% |
| 1979 | 0.0158 t per person | -6.4% |
| 1980 | 0.0153 t per person | -3.2% |
| 1981 | 0.0159 t per person | +4.0% |
| 1982 | 0.0155 t per person | -2.4% |
| 1983 | 0.0119 t per person | -23.0% |
| 1984 | 0.0101 t per person | -15.5% |
| 1985 | 0.0113 t per person | +11.8% |
| 1986 | 0.0114 t per person | +1.4% |
| 1987 | 0.0145 t per person | +26.5% |
| 1988 | 0.014 t per person | -2.9% |
| 1989 | 0.0136 t per person | -2.9% |
| 1990 | 0.0174 t per person | +27.7% |
| 1991 | 0.0085 t per person | -51.3% |
| 1992 | 0.0089 t per person | +4.9% |
| 1993 | 0.0093 t per person | +4.3% |
| 1994 | 0.0096 t per person | +3.9% |
| 1995 | 0.01 t per person | +3.5% |
| 1996 | 0.0102 t per person | +2.2% |
| 1997 | 0.0096 t per person | -5.7% |
| 1998 | 0.0104 t per person | +8.5% |
| 1999 | 0.0123 t per person | +17.5% |
| 2000 | 0.0117 t per person | -4.8% |
| 2001 | 0.0114 t per person | -2.1% |
| 2002 | 0.0116 t per person | +1.2% |
| 2003 | 0.0115 t per person | -0.6% |
| 2004 | 0.0114 t per person | -0.5% |
| 2005 | 0.0121 t per person | +5.7% |
| 2006 | 0.0126 t per person | +4.3% |
| 2007 | 0.0117 t per person | -7.3% |
| 2008 | 0.0127 t per person | +8.5% |
| 2009 | 0.0139 t per person | +9.7% |
| 2010 | 0.0147 t per person | +5.5% |
| 2011 | 0.0152 t per person | +3.6% |
| 2012 | 0.0157 t per person | +3.3% |
| 2013 | 0.0163 t per person | +3.6% |
| 2014 | 0.0165 t per person | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 0.0172 t per person | +4.6% |
| 2016 | 0.0182 t per person | +5.7% |
| 2017 | 0.018 t per person | -1.3% |
| 2018 | 0.0195 t per person | +8.4% |
| 2019 | 0.0206 t per person | +5.7% |
| 2020 | 0.0197 t per person | -4.1% |
| 2021 | 0.0198 t per person | +0.3% |
| 2022 | 0.0209 t per person | +5.9% |
| 2023 | 0.0214 t per person | +2.1% |
| 2024 | 0.0217 t per person | +1.6% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Production, per capita in Cameroon changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | -51.3% | 0.0174 t per person | 0.0085 t per person |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0.0189 t per person | 0.0163 t per person | 0.0231 t per person | 9 |
| 1970s | 0.0194 t per person | 0.0158 t per person | 0.0232 t per person | 10 |
| 1980s | 0.0134 t per person | 0.0101 t per person | 0.0159 t per person | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.0106 t per person | 0.0085 t per person | 0.0174 t per person | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.0121 t per person | 0.0114 t per person | 0.0139 t per person | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.0172 t per person | 0.0147 t per person | 0.0206 t per person | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.0207 t per person | 0.0197 t per person | 0.0217 t per person | 5 |
Countries ranked near Cameroon
More agriculture & rural data for Cameroon
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 0.9031 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1685 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 332.28 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.98 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4433 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 16.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 16.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — production, per capita in Cameroon?
- Sweet potatoes — production, per capita in Cameroon was 0.0217 t per person in 2024, according to Statizoid (derived).
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — production, per capita recorded in Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0232 t per person in 1970.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — production, per capita recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0085 t per person in 1991.
- How does Cameroon rank for sweet potatoes — production, per capita?
- Cameroon ranks 17th out of 99 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — production, per capita rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 32.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Cameroon data come from?
- The figures come from Statizoid (derived), published as part of Sweet potatoes — Production, per capita. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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How this figure is calculated
Sweet potatoes — Production divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Sweet potatoes — Production ÷ Population, total
Computed from
- Sweet potatoes — Production Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Population, total World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN)
Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.
About this data
Sweet potatoes — Production divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.