Sweet potatoes — Production by country
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area...
What the numbers show
Sweet potatoes — Production is currently reported for 127 countries. The highest value is 51.57 million t in China; the lowest is 0 t in Bahrain.
The median across all reporting countries is 39,283 t, and the mean is 1.13 million t.
Over the past decade 74 countries rose and 53 fell. The largest increase was in Guatemala (up 2,302.7%), and the largest decrease in Bahrain (down 100.0%).
Sweet potatoes — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 51.57 million t | 2024 | down 7.9% | falling |
| 2 | China, mainland | 51.35 million t | 2024 | down 7.9% | falling |
| 3 | Malawi | 7.98 million t | 2024 | up 89.6% | rising |
| 4 | Nigeria | 4.09 million t | 2024 | up 9.5% | volatile |
| 4 | United Republic of Tanzania | 2.23 million t | 2024 | down 36.4% | volatile |
| 5 | Angola | 2.12 million t | 2024 | up 10.1% | volatile |
| 6 | Indonesia | 1.48 million t | 2024 | down 37.9% | falling |
| 6 | Viet Nam | 972,890 t | 2024 | down 30.6% | flat |
| 7 | Rwanda | 1.40 million t | 2024 | up 48.6% | rising |
| 7 | Melanesia | 866,742 t | 2024 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 8 | India | 1.31 million t | 2024 | up 20.0% | falling |
| 8 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 625,963 t | 2024 | up 31.0% | rising |
| 9 | Madagascar | 1.30 million t | 2024 | up 13.8% | volatile |
| 9 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 576,338 t | 2024 | up 46.4% | volatile |
| 10 | Ethiopia | 1.19 million t | 2024 | down 58.1% | volatile |
| 10 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 138,700 t | 2024 | up 72.5% | volatile |
| 11 | Uganda | 1.03 million t | 2024 | down 43.5% | rising |
| 11 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 22,666 t | 2024 | up 21.6% | volatile |
| 12 | Brazil | 970,050 t | 2024 | up 84.5% | volatile |
| 12 | Polynesia | 7,334 t | 2024 | up 3.6% | falling |
| 13 | Burundi | 944,229 t | 2024 | up 42.2% | rising |
| 13 | Timor-Leste | 4,825 t | 2024 | down 18.3% | falling |
| 14 | Kenya | 862,724 t | 2024 | up 13.0% | volatile |
| 14 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 4,635 t | 2024 | up 0.2% | falling |
| 15 | Papua New Guinea | 732,422 t | 2024 | up 9.5% | rising |
| 15 | Micronesia | 3,120 t | 2024 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 15 | Micronesia (Federated States of) | 3,120 t | 2024 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 16 | Japan | 717,000 t | 2024 | down 19.1% | volatile |
| 17 | Cameroon | 633,125 t | 2024 | up 74.3% | volatile |
| 17 | Caribbean | 498,450 t | 2024 | down 55.5% | rising |
| 18 | Mali | 614,079 t | 2024 | up 60.7% | volatile |
| 19 | Philippines | 504,411 t | 2024 | down 3.0% | falling |
| 20 | Mozambique | 502,352 t | 2024 | down 0.1% | volatile |
| 21 | Egypt | 443,511 t | 2024 | up 30.8% | volatile |
| 22 | Guinea | 363,807 t | 2024 | up 58.4% | volatile |
| 23 | Niger | 314,757 t | 2024 | up 287.2% | volatile |
| 23 | Côte d'Ivoire | 63,100 t | 2024 | up 27.9% | rising |
| 24 | Republic of Korea | 314,426 t | 2024 | down 2.4% | volatile |
| 25 | Bangladesh | 302,073 t | 2024 | up 16.4% | falling |
| 25 | Cabo Verde | 2,275 t | 2024 | down 74.1% | volatile |
| 26 | Peru | 293,211 t | 2024 | up 5.4% | rising |
| 27 | Sudan | 278,269 t | 2024 | up 20.5% | rising |
| 28 | Sierra Leone | 254,823 t | 2024 | up 26.7% | volatile |
| 29 | Cuba | 237,790 t | 2024 | down 53.6% | rising |
| 30 | Chad | 232,300 t | 2024 | up 62.8% | volatile |
| 31 | Sudan (former) | 225,000 t | 2011 | up 94.0% | volatile |
| 32 | Zimbabwe | 215,604 t | 2024 | down 35.7% | volatile |
| 33 | China, Taiwan Province of | 212,360 t | 2024 | down 9.6% | volatile |
| 34 | Ethiopia PDR | 153,600 t | 1992 | up 11.3% | rising |
| 35 | Ghana | 142,676 t | 2024 | up 3.2% | rising |
| 36 | Burkina Faso | 115,507 t | 2024 | up 206.1% | volatile |
| 37 | Senegal | 114,742 t | 2024 | up 202.7% | volatile |
| 38 | Benin | 112,413 t | 2024 | up 71.7% | rising |
| 39 | Solomon Islands | 109,115 t | 2024 | up 6.6% | rising |
| 40 | Argentina | 108,309 t | 2024 | down 36.9% | falling |
| 41 | Haiti | 104,500 t | 2024 | down 79.5% | falling |
| 42 | Equatorial Guinea | 102,398 t | 2024 | up 12.4% | volatile |
| 43 | Australia and New Zealand | 101,094 t | 2024 | up 13.5% | volatile |
| 44 | Dominican Republic | 92,467 t | 2024 | up 106.3% | falling |
| 45 | Australia | 89,203 t | 2024 | up 18.5% | volatile |
| 46 | Zambia | 83,542 t | 2024 | down 44.4% | volatile |
| 47 | Uruguay | 82,000 t | 2024 | up 9.3% | rising |
| 48 | South Africa | 70,564 t | 2024 | up 12.8% | rising |
| 49 | Mexico | 66,732 t | 2024 | up 59.9% | falling |
| 50 | Spain | 62,302 t | 2017 | up 179.8% | volatile |
| 51 | Myanmar | 60,674 t | 2024 | down 0.3% | volatile |
| 52 | Jamaica | 55,056 t | 2024 | up 39.7% | rising |
| 53 | Paraguay | 51,532 t | 2024 | down 0.9% | falling |
| 54 | Malaysia | 50,583 t | 2024 | down 1.7% | volatile |
| 55 | Sri Lanka | 49,825 t | 2024 | down 1.0% | volatile |
| 56 | Cambodia | 39,283 t | 2024 | down 27.7% | rising |
| 57 | Guinea-Bissau | 38,162 t | 2024 | up 0.6% | flat |
| 58 | Honduras | 28,629 t | 2024 | up 89.7% | volatile |
| 59 | Liberia | 24,679 t | 2024 | up 6.4% | rising |
| 60 | Portugal | 23,206 t | 2017 | down 10.7% | falling |
| 61 | Guyana | 22,066 t | 2024 | up 74.7% | volatile |
| 62 | Israel | 17,426 t | 2024 | down 45.3% | volatile |
| 63 | Chile | 15,599 t | 2024 | up 8.7% | rising |
| 64 | Fiji | 12,731 t | 2024 | up 48.4% | volatile |
| 65 | New Zealand | 11,891 t | 2024 | down 14.0% | rising |
| 66 | Morocco | 11,032 t | 2024 | down 32.8% | volatile |
| 67 | Comoros | 10,672 t | 2024 | down 18.8% | falling |
| 68 | Congo | 9,464 t | 2024 | up 10.5% | falling |
| 69 | Somalia | 8,843 t | 2024 | up 8.1% | rising |
| 70 | Italy | 8,494 t | 2017 | up 6.4% | falling |
| 71 | Tonga | 6,640 t | 2024 | up 1.8% | falling |
| 72 | Togo | 6,374 t | 2024 | down 44.6% | volatile |
| 73 | Mauritania | 5,313 t | 2024 | up 1.4% | rising |
| 74 | Guatemala | 4,565 t | 2024 | up 2,302.7% | volatile |
| 75 | Pakistan | 4,390 t | 2024 | down 63.8% | rising |
| 76 | Ecuador | 4,207 t | 2024 | up 11.3% | volatile |
| 77 | Guadeloupe | 4,000 t | 2006 | up 61.9% | falling |
| 78 | Gabon | 3,901 t | 2024 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 79 | Mauritius | 3,062 t | 2024 | up 292.6% | volatile |
| 80 | Palestine | 2,929 t | 2022 | down 21.6% | falling |
| 81 | Eswatini | 2,821 t | 2024 | up 13.5% | volatile |
| 82 | Dominica | 2,357 t | 2024 | down 28.3% | volatile |
| 83 | Greece | 2,153 t | 2017 | down 40.5% | volatile |
| 84 | Barbados | 1,993 t | 2024 | up 61.8% | volatile |
| 85 | Bahamas | 1,812 t | 2024 | up 4.8% | volatile |
| 86 | Costa Rica | 1,764 t | 2024 | up 194.0% | volatile |
| 87 | Botswana | 1,088 t | 2024 | up 36.0% | volatile |
| 88 | El Salvador | 764.75 t | 2024 | up 4.6% | rising |
| 89 | Réunion | 760 t | 2006 | up 1,281.8% | volatile |
| 90 | New Caledonia | 644.1 t | 2024 | up 37.9% | volatile |
| 91 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 643 t | 2024 | down 79.4% | volatile |
| 92 | Martinique | 639 t | 2006 | down 34.1% | volatile |
| 93 | Suriname | 594.88 t | 2024 | up 19.2% | volatile |
| 94 | Grenada | 522.93 t | 2024 | down 51.9% | volatile |
| 95 | Saint Lucia | 405.07 t | 2024 | down 43.4% | falling |
| 96 | Yemen | 322.06 t | 2024 | up 2.3% | volatile |
| 97 | Trinidad and Tobago | 308 t | 2024 | down 83.9% | volatile |
| 98 | Cook Islands | 299.22 t | 2024 | down 2.2% | volatile |
| 99 | Brunei Darussalam | 286.37 t | 2024 | up 5.1% | volatile |
| 100 | Puerto Rico | 267.07 t | 2024 | down 4.1% | volatile |
| 101 | Panama | 260.03 t | 2024 | down 47.5% | falling |
| 102 | Niue | 251.87 t | 2024 | up 0.6% | falling |
| 103 | Belize | 207 t | 2024 | up 213.6% | volatile |
| 104 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 176.94 t | 2024 | up 27.3% | rising |
| 105 | Antigua and Barbuda | 151.05 t | 2024 | down 44.4% | rising |
| 106 | French Polynesia | 143.42 t | 2024 | up 3.9% | flat |
| 107 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 60.75 t | 2024 | down 11.3% | volatile |
| 108 | Bhutan | 44.1 t | 2024 | down 45.0% | volatile |
| 109 | Kuwait | 32.11 t | 2024 | down 48.2% | falling |
| 110 | Maldives | 3.33 t | 2024 | down 73.4% | volatile |
| 111 | Singapore | 0.12 t | 2024 | down 63.6% | volatile |
| 112 | Bahrain | 0 t | 1996 | down 100.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 90.93 million t
- Asia 58.11 million t
- Eastern Asia 53.17 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 22.65 million t
- Africa 28.55 million t
- Middle Africa 3.73 million t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 24.84 million t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 22.09 million t
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 1.46 million t
- Eastern Africa 17.75 million t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 14.31 million t
- Western Africa 6.26 million t
- Americas 3.30 million t
- South-Eastern Asia 3.25 million t
- Southern Asia 1.66 million t
- South America 1.57 million t
- Northern America 1.12 million t
- United States of America 1.12 million t
- Oceania 978,290 t
- Northern Africa 732,812 t
- Central America 102,922 t
- European Union (27) 96,155 t
- Europe 96,155 t
- Southern Europe 96,155 t
- Southern Africa 74,473 t
- Western Asia 19,362 t
About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.