Sweet potatoes — Production in Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic: Sweet potatoes — Production was 92,467 t in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Production in Dominican Republic, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — production in Dominican Republic is 92,467 t, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 23.2% on the previous year and up 106.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — production in Dominican Republic peaked at 95,000 t in 1972 and was at its lowest, 19,410 t, in 1982.
That places Dominican Republic 44th out of 111 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 76,822 t | 71,800 t | 84,000 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 72,590 t | 43,445 t | 95,000 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 38,554 t | 19,410 t | 52,697 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 41,844 t | 28,872 t | 52,952 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 34,991 t | 27,611 t | 47,147 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 48,487 t | 41,310 t | 54,855 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 69,021 t | 57,142 t | 92,467 t | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Dominican Republic
- Agriculture share gdp 4.6 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 4.6 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.5% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2024)
- Rural population 27.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.4% (2025)
- Rural population 3.17 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.86 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.04 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — production in Dominican Republic?
- Sweet potatoes — production in Dominican Republic was 92,467 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Dominican Republic?
- The highest recorded value was 95,000 t in 1972.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Dominican Republic?
- The lowest recorded value was 19,410 t in 1982.
- How does Dominican Republic rank for sweet potatoes — production?
- Dominican Republic ranks 44th out of 111 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — production rising or falling in Dominican Republic?
- Over the last ten years it is up 106.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Dominican Republic 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.