Sweet potatoes — Production in Liberia
Liberia: Sweet potatoes — Production was 24,679 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Production in Liberia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — production in Liberia is 24,679 t, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.3% on the previous year and up 6.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — production in Liberia peaked at 24,977 t in 2020 and was at its lowest, 8,000 t, in 1961.
That places Liberia 66th out of 126 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,667 t | 8,000 t | 12,000 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 13,850 t | 12,000 t | 15,300 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 17,040 t | 15,400 t | 18,000 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 16,721 t | 15,000 t | 18,000 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 19,601 t | 18,249 t | 21,000 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 23,071 t | 20,000 t | 24,578 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 24,739 t | 24,574 t | 24,977 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Liberia
More agriculture & rural data for Liberia
- Agriculture share gdp 32.65 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 32.65 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 63.7% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.7% (2023)
- Rural population 43.9% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 2.52 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 32.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.71 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 142,551 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — production in Liberia?
- Sweet potatoes — production in Liberia was 24,679 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Liberia?
- The highest recorded value was 24,977 t in 2020.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Liberia?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,000 t in 1961.
- How does Liberia rank for sweet potatoes — production?
- Liberia ranks 66th out of 126 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — production rising or falling in Liberia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Liberia 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.