Sweet potatoes — Production in Haiti
Haiti: Sweet potatoes — Production was 104,500 t in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Production in Haiti, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Haiti recorded 104,500 t for sweet potatoes — production in 2024.
The figure is up 4.5% on the previous year and down 79.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — production in Haiti peaked at 599,683 t in 2013 and was at its lowest, 87,055 t, in 2017.
That places Haiti 41st out of 113 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.
Sweet potatoes — Production in Haiti, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 180,000 t | — |
| 1962 | 190,000 t | +5.6% |
| 1963 | 200,000 t | +5.3% |
| 1964 | 210,000 t | +5.0% |
| 1965 | 220,000 t | +4.8% |
| 1966 | 230,000 t | +4.5% |
| 1967 | 240,000 t | +4.3% |
| 1968 | 260,000 t | +8.3% |
| 1969 | 250,000 t | -3.8% |
| 1970 | 260,000 t | +4.0% |
| 1971 | 270,000 t | +3.8% |
| 1972 | 250,000 t | -7.4% |
| 1973 | 270,000 t | +8.0% |
| 1974 | 290,000 t | +7.4% |
| 1975 | 305,000 t | +5.2% |
| 1976 | 320,000 t | +4.9% |
| 1977 | 346,225 t | +8.2% |
| 1978 | 305,528 t | -11.8% |
| 1979 | 264,788 t | -13.3% |
| 1980 | 281,700 t | +6.4% |
| 1981 | 282,000 t | +0.1% |
| 1982 | 313,000 t | +11.0% |
| 1983 | 346,000 t | +10.5% |
| 1984 | 350,000 t | +1.2% |
| 1985 | 320,000 t | -8.6% |
| 1986 | 300,000 t | -6.2% |
| 1987 | 280,000 t | -6.7% |
| 1988 | 260,000 t | -7.1% |
| 1989 | 240,000 t | -7.7% |
| 1990 | 220,000 t | -8.3% |
| 1991 | 200,000 t | -9.1% |
| 1992 | 195,822 t | -2.1% |
| 1993 | 190,000 t | -3.0% |
| 1994 | 185,000 t | -2.6% |
| 1995 | 186,294 t | +0.7% |
| 1996 | 183,300 t | -1.6% |
| 1997 | 160,000 t | -12.7% |
| 1998 | 170,250 t | +6.4% |
| 1999 | 172,000 t | +1.0% |
| 2000 | 180,000 t | +4.7% |
| 2001 | 174,000 t | -3.3% |
| 2002 | 175,000 t | +0.6% |
| 2003 | 180,000 t | +2.9% |
| 2004 | 175,000 t | -2.8% |
| 2005 | 200,000 t | +14.3% |
| 2006 | 200,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 220,000 t | +10.0% |
| 2008 | 230,000 t | +4.5% |
| 2009 | 294,172 t | +27.9% |
| 2010 | 414,518 t | +40.9% |
| 2011 | 473,962 t | +14.3% |
| 2012 | 543,169 t | +14.6% |
| 2013 | 599,683 t | +10.4% |
| 2014 | 510,000 t | -15.0% |
| 2015 | 300,606 t | -41.1% |
| 2016 | 114,732 t | -61.8% |
| 2017 | 87,055 t | -24.1% |
| 2018 | 116,659 t | +34.0% |
| 2019 | 117,345 t | +0.6% |
| 2020 | 100,982 t | -13.9% |
| 2021 | 95,098 t | -5.8% |
| 2022 | 95,882 t | +0.8% |
| 2023 | 100,000 t | +4.3% |
| 2024 | 104,500 t | +4.5% |
Haiti compared with similar countries
- Haiti's 104,500 t is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 106,808 t, 98% of the median. (28 countries reporting)
- Haiti's 104,500 t is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 3,282 t, 31.8× the median. (30 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Production in Haiti 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | -61.8% | 300,606 t | 114,732 t |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 220,000 t | 180,000 t | 260,000 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 288,154 t | 250,000 t | 346,225 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 297,270 t | 240,000 t | 350,000 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 186,267 t | 160,000 t | 220,000 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 202,817 t | 174,000 t | 294,172 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 327,773 t | 87,055 t | 599,683 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 99,292 t | 95,098 t | 104,500 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Haiti
- 38 Benin 112,413 t compare
- 39 Solomon Islands 109,115 t compare
- 40 Argentina 108,309 t compare
- 42 Equatorial Guinea 102,398 t compare
- 43 Australia and New Zealand 101,094 t compare
- 44 Dominican Republic 92,467 t compare
More agriculture & rural data for Haiti
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 26.66 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1581 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 425.88 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.1649 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4439 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 15.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 15.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.2% (2016)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2016)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — production in Haiti?
- Sweet potatoes — production in Haiti was 104,500 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Haiti?
- The highest recorded value was 599,683 t in 2013.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Haiti?
- The lowest recorded value was 87,055 t in 2017.
- How does Haiti rank for sweet potatoes — production?
- Haiti ranks 41st out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — production rising or falling in Haiti?
- Over the last ten years it is down 79.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Haiti 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.