Sweet potatoes — Production in Middle Africa
Middle Africa: Sweet potatoes — Production was 3.73 million t in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sweet potatoes — Production in Middle Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — production in Middle Africa is 3.73 million t, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 5.2% on the previous year and up 23.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — production in Middle Africa peaked at 3.73 million t in 2024 and was at its lowest, 513,578 t, in 1966.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Sweet potatoes — Production in Middle Africa, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 591,456 t | — |
| 1962 | 589,000 t | -0.4% |
| 1963 | 596,000 t | +1.2% |
| 1964 | 571,652 t | -4.1% |
| 1965 | 522,696 t | -8.6% |
| 1966 | 513,578 t | -1.7% |
| 1967 | 564,997 t | +10.0% |
| 1968 | 568,145 t | +0.6% |
| 1969 | 595,445 t | +4.8% |
| 1970 | 625,129 t | +5.0% |
| 1971 | 612,749 t | -2.0% |
| 1972 | 650,076 t | +6.1% |
| 1973 | 652,414 t | +0.4% |
| 1974 | 665,706 t | +2.0% |
| 1975 | 664,460 t | -0.2% |
| 1976 | 671,850 t | +1.1% |
| 1977 | 670,481 t | -0.2% |
| 1978 | 662,100 t | -1.2% |
| 1979 | 684,500 t | +3.4% |
| 1980 | 697,400 t | +1.9% |
| 1981 | 717,900 t | +2.9% |
| 1982 | 729,200 t | +1.6% |
| 1983 | 711,800 t | -2.4% |
| 1984 | 714,830 t | +0.4% |
| 1985 | 742,000 t | +3.8% |
| 1986 | 741,600 t | -0.1% |
| 1987 | 778,100 t | +4.9% |
| 1988 | 777,700 t | -0.1% |
| 1989 | 776,500 t | -0.2% |
| 1990 | 829,177 t | +6.8% |
| 1991 | 748,363 t | -9.7% |
| 1992 | 779,391 t | +4.1% |
| 1993 | 797,382 t | +2.3% |
| 1994 | 814,490 t | +2.1% |
| 1995 | 833,930 t | +2.4% |
| 1996 | 839,515 t | +0.7% |
| 1997 | 833,588 t | -0.7% |
| 1998 | 705,436 t | -15.4% |
| 1999 | 716,375 t | +1.6% |
| 2000 | 736,339 t | +2.8% |
| 2001 | 849,274 t | +15.3% |
| 2002 | 915,201 t | +7.8% |
| 2003 | 1.02 million t | +11.1% |
| 2004 | 1.13 million t | +11.5% |
| 2005 | 1.18 million t | +4.2% |
| 2006 | 1.22 million t | +2.9% |
| 2007 | 1.54 million t | +26.3% |
| 2008 | 1.42 million t | -7.2% |
| 2009 | 1.61 million t | +13.1% |
| 2010 | 1.85 million t | +14.5% |
| 2011 | 2.11 million t | +14.4% |
| 2012 | 2.05 million t | -3.0% |
| 2013 | 2.41 million t | +17.4% |
| 2014 | 3.02 million t | +25.3% |
| 2015 | 3.02 million t | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 3.14 million t | +4.1% |
| 2017 | 2.96 million t | -6.0% |
| 2018 | 3.05 million t | +3.3% |
| 2019 | 3.08 million t | +0.9% |
| 2020 | 3.15 million t | +2.2% |
| 2021 | 3.21 million t | +1.9% |
| 2022 | 3.38 million t | +5.3% |
| 2023 | 3.55 million t | +5.1% |
| 2024 | 3.73 million t | +5.2% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Production in Middle Africa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | +26.3% | 1.22 million t | 1.54 million t |
| 2014 | +25.3% | 2.41 million t | 3.02 million t |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 568,108 t | 513,578 t | 596,000 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 655,946 t | 612,749 t | 684,500 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 738,703 t | 697,400 t | 778,100 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 789,765 t | 705,436 t | 839,515 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 1.16 million t | 736,339 t | 1.61 million t | 10 |
| 2010s | 2.67 million t | 1.85 million t | 3.14 million t | 10 |
| 2020s | 3.40 million t | 3.15 million t | 3.73 million t | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — production in Middle Africa?
- Sweet potatoes — production in Middle Africa was 3.73 million t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Middle Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 3.73 million t in 2024.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Middle Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 513,578 t in 1966.
- How does Middle Africa rank for sweet potatoes — production?
- Middle Africa ranks 3rd out of 16 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — production rising or falling in Middle Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 23.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Middle Africa 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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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.