Sweet potatoes — Yield by country
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...
What the numbers show
Sweet potatoes — Yield is currently reported for 127 countries. The highest value is 103,206 kg/ha in Guyana; the lowest is 1,084 kg/ha in Maldives.
The median across all reporting countries is 9,199 kg/ha, and the mean is 12,474 kg/ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 95.
Over the past decade 74 countries rose and 52 fell. The largest increase was in Réunion (up 821.2%), and the largest decrease in Trinidad and Tobago (down 68.1%).
Sweet potatoes — Yield: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guyana | 103,206 kg/ha | 2024 | up 74.3% | volatile |
| 2 | Senegal | 46,084 kg/ha | 2024 | up 23.5% | volatile |
| 2 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 17,455 kg/ha | 2024 | up 43.2% | rising |
| 3 | Australia | 41,794 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.6% | volatile |
| 3 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 13,671 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.9% | flat |
| 4 | Palestine | 39,473 kg/ha | 2022 | up 44.5% | rising |
| 4 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 12,987 kg/ha | 2024 | up 40.6% | volatile |
| 5 | Egypt | 36,993 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.0% | rising |
| 5 | Viet Nam | 12,040 kg/ha | 2024 | up 12.2% | rising |
| 6 | Australia and New Zealand | 30,206 kg/ha | 2024 | up 8.8% | rising |
| 7 | Botswana | 29,658 kg/ha | 2024 | up 159.5% | rising |
| 7 | Polynesia | 10,197 kg/ha | 2024 | down 8.2% | falling |
| 8 | Spain | 29,045 kg/ha | 2017 | up 72.1% | rising |
| 9 | Ethiopia | 28,431 kg/ha | 2024 | down 32.3% | volatile |
| 9 | United Republic of Tanzania | 6,437 kg/ha | 2024 | up 35.4% | volatile |
| 10 | Barbados | 27,604 kg/ha | 2024 | up 18.6% | rising |
| 10 | Cabo Verde | 13,957 kg/ha | 2024 | down 28.4% | volatile |
| 10 | Melanesia | 5,636 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.3% | rising |
| 11 | Cook Islands | 27,481 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.0% | rising |
| 12 | Malawi | 25,355 kg/ha | 2024 | up 25.1% | rising |
| 12 | Micronesia | 5,461 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.5% | falling |
| 12 | Micronesia (Federated States of) | 5,461 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.5% | falling |
| 13 | Portugal | 24,323 kg/ha | 2017 | up 208.7% | rising |
| 14 | China, Taiwan Province of | 23,968 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 14 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 5,012 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.0% | falling |
| 15 | Greece | 23,922 kg/ha | 2017 | up 11.7% | rising |
| 15 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 4,244 kg/ha | 2024 | up 26.1% | falling |
| 16 | Saint Lucia | 23,707 kg/ha | 2024 | up 110.8% | volatile |
| 16 | Timor-Leste | 2,504 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.2% | falling |
| 17 | Réunion | 23,030 kg/ha | 2006 | up 821.2% | volatile |
| 18 | Morocco | 22,841 kg/ha | 2024 | up 17.0% | rising |
| 19 | Japan | 22,547 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.4% | rising |
| 20 | China | 22,214 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.9% | rising |
| 21 | China, mainland | 22,207 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.9% | rising |
| 22 | Italy | 21,892 kg/ha | 2017 | up 17.9% | flat |
| 22 | Caribbean | 5,042 kg/ha | 2024 | down 37.8% | rising |
| 23 | Indonesia | 21,557 kg/ha | 2024 | up 41.8% | rising |
| 24 | Sudan (former) | 21,429 kg/ha | 2011 | down 0.2% | falling |
| 25 | Mexico | 20,302 kg/ha | 2024 | up 14.6% | rising |
| 25 | Côte d'Ivoire | 1,748 kg/ha | 2024 | down 8.8% | flat |
| 26 | Niger | 19,297 kg/ha | 2024 | down 12.2% | volatile |
| 27 | Peru | 18,000 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 28 | Jamaica | 17,130 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.7% | rising |
| 29 | Malaysia | 16,322 kg/ha | 2024 | down 4.5% | rising |
| 30 | Mali | 16,149 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.1% | volatile |
| 31 | Israel | 15,958 kg/ha | 2024 | up 23.8% | volatile |
| 32 | Mauritius | 15,851 kg/ha | 2024 | up 19.9% | rising |
| 33 | Republic of Korea | 15,445 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.6% | falling |
| 34 | Brazil | 14,883 kg/ha | 2024 | up 12.4% | rising |
| 35 | Niue | 14,818 kg/ha | 2024 | down 6.4% | falling |
| 36 | Solomon Islands | 14,032 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.1% | rising |
| 37 | Suriname | 13,692 kg/ha | 2024 | up 39.9% | volatile |
| 38 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 13,005 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.4% | rising |
| 39 | Kenya | 12,604 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.8% | rising |
| 40 | Panama | 12,557 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.5% | rising |
| 41 | Argentina | 12,145 kg/ha | 2024 | down 10.3% | rising |
| 42 | Bahrain | 12,000 kg/ha | 1995 | down 40.0% | falling |
| 43 | Burundi | 11,793 kg/ha | 2024 | up 17.2% | rising |
| 44 | India | 11,675 kg/ha | 2024 | up 13.6% | rising |
| 45 | Burkina Faso | 11,412 kg/ha | 2024 | up 94.3% | volatile |
| 46 | Liberia | 11,256 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.1% | rising |
| 47 | Sri Lanka | 11,124 kg/ha | 2024 | up 22.6% | rising |
| 48 | Guadeloupe | 10,811 kg/ha | 2006 | down 12.5% | flat |
| 49 | Bangladesh | 10,806 kg/ha | 2024 | up 7.8% | falling |
| 50 | Chile | 10,795 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.8% | falling |
| 51 | Angola | 10,601 kg/ha | 2024 | down 7.3% | flat |
| 52 | Somalia | 9,916 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 53 | Tonga | 9,901 kg/ha | 2024 | down 7.3% | falling |
| 54 | New Zealand | 9,807 kg/ha | 2024 | down 7.3% | falling |
| 55 | Uruguay | 9,690 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.7% | rising |
| 56 | Dominican Republic | 9,461 kg/ha | 2024 | up 14.4% | flat |
| 57 | Puerto Rico | 9,332 kg/ha | 2024 | up 17.2% | rising |
| 58 | Paraguay | 9,199 kg/ha | 2024 | down 8.0% | falling |
| 59 | Benin | 9,126 kg/ha | 2024 | up 52.4% | rising |
| 60 | Fiji | 9,000 kg/ha | 2024 | down 10.7% | volatile |
| 61 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 8,931 kg/ha | 2024 | up 615.6% | volatile |
| 62 | Myanmar | 8,874 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.1% | rising |
| 63 | Madagascar | 8,630 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 64 | Martinique | 8,237 kg/ha | 2006 | down 15.1% | falling |
| 65 | Yemen | 8,217 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.7% | falling |
| 66 | Sierra Leone | 8,208 kg/ha | 2024 | up 80.0% | rising |
| 67 | Brunei Darussalam | 8,116 kg/ha | 2024 | up 17.8% | rising |
| 68 | Ethiopia PDR | 8,000 kg/ha | 1992 | unchanged | flat |
| 69 | Rwanda | 7,780 kg/ha | 2024 | up 16.6% | rising |
| 70 | Zimbabwe | 7,663 kg/ha | 2024 | down 42.8% | volatile |
| 71 | Kuwait | 7,279 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.7% | flat |
| 72 | Congo | 7,172 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.7% | rising |
| 73 | Sudan | 6,950 kg/ha | 2024 | down 65.7% | falling |
| 74 | French Polynesia | 6,922 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 75 | Cambodia | 6,898 kg/ha | 2024 | down 25.1% | falling |
| 76 | Cameroon | 6,780 kg/ha | 2024 | up 15.0% | rising |
| 77 | Cuba | 6,529 kg/ha | 2024 | down 48.2% | rising |
| 78 | Belize | 6,469 kg/ha | 2024 | down 8.8% | falling |
| 79 | Guatemala | 6,374 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.6% | flat |
| 80 | Philippines | 6,235 kg/ha | 2024 | up 6.7% | rising |
| 81 | Honduras | 6,047 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.8% | rising |
| 82 | Dominica | 6,042 kg/ha | 2024 | down 26.8% | rising |
| 83 | Chad | 5,971 kg/ha | 2024 | down 60.9% | rising |
| 84 | El Salvador | 5,782 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.2% | rising |
| 85 | Equatorial Guinea | 5,347 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.9% | rising |
| 86 | Papua New Guinea | 5,127 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.0% | rising |
| 87 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 5,105 kg/ha | 2024 | down 44.9% | rising |
| 88 | Mozambique | 5,000 kg/ha | 2024 | down 28.9% | rising |
| 89 | Guinea-Bissau | 4,918 kg/ha | 2024 | down 18.1% | falling |
| 90 | Antigua and Barbuda | 4,829 kg/ha | 2024 | down 23.9% | rising |
| 91 | Comoros | 4,756 kg/ha | 2024 | up 21.3% | volatile |
| 92 | Uganda | 4,630 kg/ha | 2024 | up 15.6% | rising |
| 93 | Guinea | 4,358 kg/ha | 2024 | down 48.9% | falling |
| 94 | Pakistan | 3,934 kg/ha | 2024 | down 53.9% | falling |
| 95 | Bahamas | 3,370 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.7% | rising |
| 96 | Togo | 3,297 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 97 | Costa Rica | 2,979 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 98 | Zambia | 2,805 kg/ha | 2024 | down 14.7% | volatile |
| 99 | Grenada | 2,797 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.2% | falling |
| 100 | Nigeria | 2,710 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.3% | volatile |
| 101 | South Africa | 2,586 kg/ha | 2024 | down 11.8% | flat |
| 102 | New Caledonia | 2,444 kg/ha | 2024 | up 161.7% | falling |
| 103 | Haiti | 2,181 kg/ha | 2024 | down 63.4% | falling |
| 104 | Gabon | 2,027 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.7% | rising |
| 105 | Ecuador | 2,007 kg/ha | 2024 | up 10.5% | falling |
| 106 | Bhutan | 1,959 kg/ha | 2024 | up 31.3% | falling |
| 107 | Trinidad and Tobago | 1,928 kg/ha | 2024 | down 68.1% | falling |
| 108 | Eswatini | 1,874 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.9% | volatile |
| 109 | Ghana | 1,815 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.9% | rising |
| 110 | Mauritania | 1,811 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.9% | rising |
| 111 | Singapore | 1,700 kg/ha | 2024 | down 15.9% | volatile |
| 112 | Maldives | 1,084 kg/ha | 2024 | up 6.7% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- European Union (27) 26,881 kg/ha
- Europe 26,881 kg/ha
- Southern Europe 26,881 kg/ha
- Asia 20,619 kg/ha
- Eastern Asia 22,012 kg/ha
- Northern America 18,662 kg/ha
- United States of America 18,662 kg/ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 10,358 kg/ha
- Western Asia 16,345 kg/ha
- South America 14,177 kg/ha
- Middle Africa 7,774 kg/ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 14,091 kg/ha
- Northern Africa 13,956 kg/ha
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 5,469 kg/ha
- South-Eastern Asia 12,706 kg/ha
- World 12,603 kg/ha
- Americas 11,794 kg/ha
- Southern Asia 11,430 kg/ha
- Eastern Africa 11,343 kg/ha
- Central America 10,817 kg/ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 10,406 kg/ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 10,360 kg/ha
- Africa 7,211 kg/ha
- Oceania 6,175 kg/ha
- Western Africa 3,417 kg/ha
- Southern Africa 2,584 kg/ha
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.