Sweet potatoes — Production in Paraguay
Paraguay: Sweet potatoes — Production was 51,532 t in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Production in Paraguay, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — production in Paraguay stood at 51,532 t.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 7.3% on the previous year and down 0.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — production in Paraguay peaked at 166,932 t in 2004 and was at its lowest, 30,378 t, in 2022.
Paraguay ranks 60th of 126 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 84,542 t | 70,000 t | 99,700 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 101,610 t | 72,100 t | 119,206 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 104,794 t | 75,100 t | 140,453 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 85,161 t | 67,076 t | 106,359 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 108,956 t | 43,390 t | 166,932 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 47,988 t | 42,858 t | 52,000 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 46,876 t | 30,378 t | 52,388 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Paraguay
More agriculture & rural data for Paraguay
- Agriculture share gdp 11.64 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 11.64 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2025)
- Rural population 29.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.6% (2025)
- Rural population 2.08 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 11.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.74 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 88,870 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — production in Paraguay?
- Sweet potatoes — production in Paraguay was 51,532 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Paraguay?
- The highest recorded value was 166,932 t in 2004.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — production recorded in Paraguay?
- The lowest recorded value was 30,378 t in 2022.
- How does Paraguay rank for sweet potatoes — production?
- Paraguay ranks 60th out of 126 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — production rising or falling in Paraguay?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Paraguay 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.