Sweet potatoes — Production in El Salvador
El Salvador: Sweet potatoes — Production was 764.75 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Production in El Salvador, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
El Salvador recorded 764.75 t for sweet potatoes — production in 2024.
The figure is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 4.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — production in El Salvador peaked at 773.42 t in 2019 and was at its lowest, 220 t, in 1961.
That places El Salvador 88th out of 113 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Production in El Salvador, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 220 t | — |
| 1962 | 220 t | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 230 t | +4.5% |
| 1964 | 230 t | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 240 t | +4.3% |
| 1966 | 240 t | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 250 t | +4.2% |
| 1968 | 250 t | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 260 t | +4.0% |
| 1970 | 260 t | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 270 t | +3.8% |
| 1972 | 270 t | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 280 t | +3.7% |
| 1974 | 290 t | +3.6% |
| 1975 | 300 t | +3.4% |
| 1976 | 300 t | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 331 t | +10.3% |
| 1978 | 300 t | -9.4% |
| 1979 | 300 t | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 300 t | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 300 t | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 300 t | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 310 t | +3.3% |
| 1984 | 320 t | +3.2% |
| 1985 | 330 t | +3.1% |
| 1986 | 340 t | +3.0% |
| 1987 | 350 t | +2.9% |
| 1988 | 360 t | +2.9% |
| 1989 | 460 t | +27.8% |
| 1990 | 450 t | -2.2% |
| 1991 | 445.21 t | -1.1% |
| 1992 | 460 t | +3.3% |
| 1993 | 480 t | +4.3% |
| 1994 | 490 t | +2.1% |
| 1995 | 500 t | +2.0% |
| 1996 | 478.2 t | -4.4% |
| 1997 | 350 t | -26.8% |
| 1998 | 550 t | +57.1% |
| 1999 | 525.39 t | -4.5% |
| 2000 | 547.98 t | +4.3% |
| 2001 | 547.83 t | -0.0% |
| 2002 | 558.88 t | +2.0% |
| 2003 | 568.54 t | +1.7% |
| 2004 | 578 t | +1.7% |
| 2005 | 593.41 t | +2.7% |
| 2006 | 598.19 t | +0.8% |
| 2007 | 575 t | -3.9% |
| 2008 | 621.85 t | +8.1% |
| 2009 | 636 t | +2.3% |
| 2010 | 650.26 t | +2.2% |
| 2011 | 664.72 t | +2.2% |
| 2012 | 700 t | +5.3% |
| 2013 | 700 t | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 731.3 t | +4.5% |
| 2015 | 720.38 t | -1.5% |
| 2016 | 732.37 t | +1.7% |
| 2017 | 747.11 t | +2.0% |
| 2018 | 760.09 t | +1.7% |
| 2019 | 773.42 t | +1.8% |
| 2020 | 760.21 t | -1.7% |
| 2021 | 764.57 t | +0.6% |
| 2022 | 766.07 t | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 763.62 t | -0.3% |
| 2024 | 764.75 t | +0.1% |
El Salvador compared with similar countries
- El Salvador's 764.75 t is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 31,278 t, 2% of the median. (30 countries reporting)
- El Salvador's 764.75 t is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 3,282 t, 23% of the median. (30 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Production in El Salvador 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | +57.1% | 350 t | 550 t |
| 1997 | -26.8% | 478.2 t | 350 t |
| 1989 | +27.8% | 360 t | 460 t |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 237.78 t | 220 t | 260 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 290.1 t | 260 t | 331 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 337 t | 300 t | 460 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 472.88 t | 350 t | 550 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 582.57 t | 547.83 t | 636 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 717.96 t | 650.26 t | 773.42 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 763.84 t | 760.21 t | 766.07 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near El Salvador
- 85 Bahamas 1,812 t compare
- 86 Costa Rica 1,764 t compare
- 87 Botswana 1,088 t compare
- 89 Réunion 760 t compare
- 90 New Caledonia 644.1 t compare
- 91 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 643 t compare
More agriculture & rural data for El Salvador
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.84 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.044 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 253.9 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.41 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2448 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 4.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 4.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — production in El Salvador?
- Sweet potatoes — production in El Salvador was 764.75 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — production recorded in El Salvador?
- The highest recorded value was 773.42 t in 2019.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — production recorded in El Salvador?
- The lowest recorded value was 220 t in 1961.
- How does El Salvador rank for sweet potatoes — production?
- El Salvador ranks 88th out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — production rising or falling in El Salvador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this El Salvador 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.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 64 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).
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.