Sweet potatoes — Production in Panama
Panama: Sweet potatoes — Production was 260.03 t in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Production in Panama, 2019–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Panama recorded 260.03 t for sweet potatoes — production in 2024.
The figure is up 1.0% on the previous year and down 47.5% over ten years.
That places Panama 101st out of 113 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
Sweet potatoes — Production in Panama, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 495 t | — |
| 2020 | 190 t | -61.6% |
| 2021 | 286 t | +50.5% |
| 2022 | 283.56 t | -0.9% |
| 2023 | 257.57 t | -9.2% |
| 2024 | 260.03 t | +1.0% |
Panama compared with similar countries
- Panama's 260.03 t is below the median for high income countries, which is 1,903 t, 14% of the median. (24 countries reporting)
- Panama's 260.03 t is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 3,282 t, 8% of the median. (30 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 495 t | 495 t | 495 t | 1 |
| 2020s | 255.43 t | 190 t | 286 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Panama
- 98 Cook Islands 299.22 t compare
- 99 Brunei Darussalam 286.37 t compare
- 100 Puerto Rico 267.07 t compare
- 102 Niue 251.87 t compare
- 103 Belize 207 t compare
- 104 Saint Kitts and Nevis 176.94 t compare
More agriculture & rural data for Panama
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.06 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0262 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 518.14 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.7724 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3385 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 2.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 2.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 4.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — production in Panama?
- Sweet potatoes — production in Panama was 260.03 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Panama?
- The highest recorded value was 495 t in 2019.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Panama?
- The lowest recorded value was 190 t in 2020.
- How does Panama rank for sweet potatoes — production?
- Panama ranks 101st out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — production rising or falling in Panama?
- Over the last ten years it is down 47.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Panama 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.