Sweet potatoes — Production in Melanesia
Melanesia: Sweet potatoes — Production was 866,742 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Production in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — production in Melanesia is 866,742 t, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.2% on the previous year and up 11.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — production in Melanesia peaked at 868,837 t in 2023 and was at its lowest, 338,100 t, in 1961.
Melanesia ranks 16th of 126 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 354,711 t | 338,100 t | 378,300 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 449,745 t | 397,800 t | 475,700 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 516,226 t | 472,900 t | 570,329 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 536,810 t | 521,327 t | 559,714 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 627,041 t | 562,862 t | 696,583 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 783,909 t | 707,551 t | 848,079 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 862,125 t | 848,297 t | 868,837 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
More agriculture & rural data for Melanesia
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 1.31 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 41 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 89,605 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 374.22 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 504 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 4,250 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 8,430 kg/ha (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 79,382 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — production in Melanesia?
- Sweet potatoes — production in Melanesia was 866,742 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 868,837 t in 2023.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 338,100 t in 1961.
- How does Melanesia rank for sweet potatoes — production?
- Melanesia ranks 16th out of 126 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — production rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 11.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Melanesia 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.