Sweet potatoes — Production in Italy
Italy: Sweet potatoes — Production was 8,494 t in 2017. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Production in Italy, 1961–2017
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Italy recorded 8,494 t for sweet potatoes — production in 2017.
That represents a change of down 31.8% on the previous year and up 6.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — production in Italy peaked at 35,930 t in 1964 and was at its lowest, 4,959 t, in 2012.
Italy ranks 78th of 126 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 57 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 32,394 t | 27,260 t | 35,930 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 23,538 t | 20,500 t | 26,400 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 14,970 t | 10,300 t | 21,400 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 13,667 t | 10,231 t | 17,126 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 15,199 t | 7,771 t | 22,498 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,175 t | 4,959 t | 12,456 t | 8 |
Countries ranked near Italy
More agriculture & rural data for Italy
- Agriculture share gdp 2.07 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 2.07 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.5% (2024)
- Rural population 30.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.3% (2025)
- Rural population 17.86 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 52.70 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 0 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — production in Italy?
- Sweet potatoes — production in Italy was 8,494 t in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Italy?
- The highest recorded value was 35,930 t in 1964.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Italy?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,959 t in 2012.
- How does Italy rank for sweet potatoes — production?
- Italy ranks 78th out of 126 countries with data for 2017.
- Is sweet potatoes — production rising or falling in Italy?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Italy 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.