Sweet potatoes — Production in Cuba
Cuba: Sweet potatoes — Production was 237,790 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Production in Cuba, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Cuba recorded 237,790 t for sweet potatoes — production in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.8% on the previous year and down 53.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — production in Cuba peaked at 594,378 t in 2016 and was at its lowest, 142,000 t, in 1961.
Cuba ranks 29th of 113 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Production in Cuba, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 142,000 t | — |
| 1962 | 201,200 t | +41.7% |
| 1963 | 240,000 t | +19.3% |
| 1964 | 250,000 t | +4.2% |
| 1965 | 250,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 240,000 t | -4.0% |
| 1967 | 230,000 t | -4.2% |
| 1968 | 233,000 t | +1.3% |
| 1969 | 240,000 t | +3.0% |
| 1970 | 230,000 t | -4.2% |
| 1971 | 245,000 t | +6.5% |
| 1972 | 246,000 t | +0.4% |
| 1973 | 241,000 t | -2.0% |
| 1974 | 248,000 t | +2.9% |
| 1975 | 248,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 250,000 t | +0.8% |
| 1977 | 263,000 t | +5.2% |
| 1978 | 311,000 t | +18.3% |
| 1979 | 316,000 t | +1.6% |
| 1980 | 228,077 t | -27.8% |
| 1981 | 199,734 t | -12.4% |
| 1982 | 177,376 t | -11.2% |
| 1983 | 201,002 t | +13.3% |
| 1984 | 162,335 t | -19.2% |
| 1985 | 178,086 t | +9.7% |
| 1986 | 149,967 t | -15.8% |
| 1987 | 188,277 t | +25.5% |
| 1988 | 163,546 t | -13.1% |
| 1989 | 194,789 t | +19.1% |
| 1990 | 195,000 t | +0.1% |
| 1991 | 192,516 t | -1.3% |
| 1992 | 275,041 t | +42.9% |
| 1993 | 180,100 t | -34.5% |
| 1994 | 195,000 t | +8.3% |
| 1995 | 211,300 t | +8.4% |
| 1996 | 213,300 t | +0.9% |
| 1997 | 207,300 t | -2.8% |
| 1998 | 247,585 t | +19.4% |
| 1999 | 261,000 t | +5.4% |
| 2000 | 302,448 t | +15.9% |
| 2001 | 360,256 t | +19.1% |
| 2002 | 392,400 t | +8.9% |
| 2003 | 503,400 t | +28.3% |
| 2004 | 486,100 t | -3.4% |
| 2005 | 449,987 t | -7.4% |
| 2006 | 303,000 t | -32.7% |
| 2007 | 414,000 t | +36.6% |
| 2008 | 375,000 t | -9.4% |
| 2009 | 437,100 t | +16.6% |
| 2010 | 384,743 t | -12.0% |
| 2011 | 311,900 t | -18.9% |
| 2012 | 335,319 t | +7.5% |
| 2013 | 396,347 t | +18.2% |
| 2014 | 512,825 t | +29.4% |
| 2015 | 506,839 t | -1.2% |
| 2016 | 594,378 t | +17.3% |
| 2017 | 517,618 t | -12.9% |
| 2018 | 549,512 t | +6.2% |
| 2019 | 484,053 t | -11.9% |
| 2020 | 302,581 t | -37.5% |
| 2021 | 318,485 t | +5.3% |
| 2022 | 267,085 t | -16.1% |
| 2023 | 231,269 t | -13.4% |
| 2024 | 237,790 t | +2.8% |
Cuba compared with similar countries
- Cuba's 237,790 t is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 31,278 t, 7.6× the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Cuba's 237,790 t is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 3,282 t, 72.4× the median. (30 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 225,133 t | 142,000 t | 250,000 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 259,800 t | 230,000 t | 316,000 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 184,319 t | 149,967 t | 228,077 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 217,814 t | 180,100 t | 275,041 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 402,369 t | 302,448 t | 503,400 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 459,353 t | 311,900 t | 594,378 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 271,442 t | 231,269 t | 318,485 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Cuba
More agriculture & rural data for Cuba
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -19.64 % change on previous year (2020)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0276 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2020)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 265.29 current US$ per person (2020)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.6522 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2020)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2277 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.2% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 1.2% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.5% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2022)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — production in Cuba?
- Sweet potatoes — production in Cuba was 237,790 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Cuba?
- The highest recorded value was 594,378 t in 2016.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Cuba?
- The lowest recorded value was 142,000 t in 1961.
- How does Cuba rank for sweet potatoes — production?
- Cuba ranks 29th out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — production rising or falling in Cuba?
- Over the last ten years it is down 53.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cuba 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.