Sweet potatoes — Production in Central America
Central America: Sweet potatoes — Production was 102,922 t in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Production in Central America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Central America recorded 102,922 t for sweet potatoes — production in 2024.
The figure is down 8.9% on the previous year and up 76.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — production in Central America peaked at 160,556 t in 1967 and was at its lowest, 29,621 t, in 1980.
Central America ranks 21st of 29 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 127,050 t | 93,103 t | 160,556 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 94,918 t | 57,965 t | 156,479 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 45,924 t | 29,621 t | 59,782 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 39,384 t | 31,861 t | 50,931 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 62,532 t | 51,474 t | 73,462 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 71,856 t | 45,766 t | 98,818 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 104,850 t | 95,848 t | 112,970 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Central America
- 18 Papua New Guinea 732,422 t compare
- 19 Japan 717,000 t compare
- 20 Cameroon 633,125 t compare
- 21 Democratic Republic of the Congo 625,963 t compare
- 22 Mali 614,079 t compare
- 23 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 576,338 t compare
- 24 Philippines 504,411 t compare
More agriculture & rural data for Central America
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 2.05 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 67,514 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 215,845 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 9.27 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 32,019 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 5.12 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 50,692 kg/ha (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 25.03 million An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 82 kg/An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 100,964 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — production in Central America?
- Sweet potatoes — production in Central America was 102,922 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Central America?
- The highest recorded value was 160,556 t in 1967.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Central America?
- The lowest recorded value was 29,621 t in 1980.
- How does Central America rank for sweet potatoes — production?
- Central America ranks 21st out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — production rising or falling in Central America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 76.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Central America 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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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.