Sweet potatoes — Production in Guatemala
Guatemala: Sweet potatoes — Production was 4,565 t in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sweet potatoes — Production in Guatemala, 1993–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Guatemala recorded 4,565 t for sweet potatoes — production in 2024.
The figure is up 11.2% on the previous year and up 2,302.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — production in Guatemala peaked at 5,075 t in 2022 and was at its lowest, 40 t, in 1994.
Guatemala ranks 85th of 126 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 91.43 t | 40 t | 200 t | 7 |
| 2000s | 162.5 t | 50 t | 500 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 735.06 t | 70 t | 3,000 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,249 t | 3,000 t | 5,075 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Guatemala
- 82 Mauritania 5,313 t compare
- 83 Timor-Leste 4,825 t compare
- 84 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 4,635 t compare
- 86 Pakistan 4,390 t compare
- 87 Ecuador 4,207 t compare
- 88 Guadeloupe 4,000 t compare
More agriculture & rural data for Guatemala
- Agriculture share gdp 9.55 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.55 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2024)
- Rural population 43.7% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 8.17 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 11.78 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.84 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — production in Guatemala?
- Sweet potatoes — production in Guatemala was 4,565 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Guatemala?
- The highest recorded value was 5,075 t in 2022.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Guatemala?
- The lowest recorded value was 40 t in 1994.
- How does Guatemala rank for sweet potatoes — production?
- Guatemala ranks 85th out of 126 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — production rising or falling in Guatemala?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2,302.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Guatemala 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.