Sweet potatoes — Production in Cambodia
Cambodia: Sweet potatoes — Production was 39,283 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Production in Cambodia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Cambodia recorded 39,283 t for sweet potatoes — production in 2024.
The figure is down 1.2% on the previous year and down 27.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — production in Cambodia peaked at 79,347 t in 2010 and was at its lowest, 12,800 t, in 1967.
That places Cambodia 56th out of 113 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Production in Cambodia, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 27,000 t | — |
| 1962 | 26,500 t | -1.9% |
| 1963 | 29,400 t | +10.9% |
| 1964 | 30,300 t | +3.1% |
| 1965 | 21,200 t | -30.0% |
| 1966 | 13,100 t | -38.2% |
| 1967 | 12,800 t | -2.3% |
| 1968 | 15,800 t | +23.4% |
| 1969 | 22,200 t | +40.5% |
| 1970 | 22,800 t | +2.7% |
| 1971 | 17,000 t | -25.4% |
| 1972 | 20,200 t | +18.8% |
| 1973 | 20,300 t | +0.5% |
| 1974 | 20,500 t | +1.0% |
| 1975 | 17,000 t | -17.1% |
| 1976 | 22,000 t | +29.4% |
| 1977 | 23,000 t | +4.5% |
| 1978 | 32,000 t | +39.1% |
| 1979 | 35,000 t | +9.4% |
| 1980 | 45,000 t | +28.6% |
| 1981 | 59,000 t | +31.1% |
| 1982 | 31,000 t | -47.5% |
| 1983 | 66,000 t | +112.9% |
| 1984 | 14,000 t | -78.8% |
| 1985 | 15,000 t | +7.1% |
| 1986 | 27,000 t | +80.0% |
| 1987 | 17,000 t | -37.0% |
| 1988 | 78,000 t | +358.8% |
| 1989 | 25,000 t | -67.9% |
| 1990 | 31,000 t | +24.0% |
| 1991 | 39,000 t | +25.8% |
| 1992 | 60,000 t | +53.8% |
| 1993 | 48,010 t | -20.0% |
| 1994 | 36,000 t | -25.0% |
| 1995 | 39,140 t | +8.7% |
| 1996 | 38,032 t | -2.8% |
| 1997 | 28,922 t | -24.0% |
| 1998 | 30,476 t | +5.4% |
| 1999 | 32,516 t | +6.7% |
| 2000 | 28,178 t | -13.3% |
| 2001 | 26,252 t | -6.8% |
| 2002 | 31,530 t | +20.1% |
| 2003 | 34,897 t | +10.7% |
| 2004 | 35,138 t | +0.7% |
| 2005 | 39,142 t | +11.4% |
| 2006 | 45,285 t | +15.7% |
| 2007 | 38,000 t | -16.1% |
| 2008 | 39,621 t | +4.3% |
| 2009 | 78,891 t | +99.1% |
| 2010 | 79,347 t | +0.6% |
| 2011 | 46,648 t | -41.2% |
| 2012 | 48,754 t | +4.5% |
| 2013 | 50,500 t | +3.6% |
| 2014 | 54,300 t | +7.5% |
| 2015 | 45,400 t | -16.4% |
| 2016 | 24,500 t | -46.0% |
| 2017 | 40,800 t | +66.5% |
| 2018 | 35,100 t | -14.0% |
| 2019 | 54,400 t | +55.0% |
| 2020 | 43,433 t | -20.2% |
| 2021 | 41,743 t | -3.9% |
| 2022 | 40,262 t | -3.5% |
| 2023 | 39,772 t | -1.2% |
| 2024 | 39,283 t | -1.2% |
Cambodia compared with similar countries
- Cambodia's 39,283 t is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 106,808 t, 37% of the median. (28 countries reporting)
- Cambodia's 39,283 t is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 55,628 t, 71% of the median. (16 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Production in Cambodia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | +358.8% | 17,000 t | 78,000 t |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 22,033 t | 12,800 t | 30,300 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 22,980 t | 17,000 t | 35,000 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 37,700 t | 14,000 t | 78,000 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 38,310 t | 28,922 t | 60,000 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 39,693 t | 26,252 t | 78,891 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 47,975 t | 24,500 t | 79,347 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 40,899 t | 39,283 t | 43,433 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Cambodia
More agriculture & rural data for Cambodia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 7.49 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1611 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 462.77 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.7882 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5889 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 16.1% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 16.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 3.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — production in Cambodia?
- Sweet potatoes — production in Cambodia was 39,283 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Cambodia?
- The highest recorded value was 79,347 t in 2010.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Cambodia?
- The lowest recorded value was 12,800 t in 1967.
- How does Cambodia rank for sweet potatoes — production?
- Cambodia ranks 56th out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — production rising or falling in Cambodia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 27.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cambodia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sweet potatoes — Production. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.