Sweet potatoes — Yield in Americas
Americas: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 11,794 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Americas, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Americas recorded 11,794 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 5.6% on the previous year and down 8.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Americas peaked at 14,146 kg/ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 7,372 kg/ha, in 1980.
That places Americas 15th out of 28 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,664 kg/ha | 8,254 kg/ha | 9,403 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,547 kg/ha | 7,523 kg/ha | 9,629 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,970 kg/ha | 7,372 kg/ha | 8,358 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,164 kg/ha | 7,659 kg/ha | 8,778 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,454 kg/ha | 8,913 kg/ha | 10,080 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 12,256 kg/ha | 9,732 kg/ha | 14,146 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 12,908 kg/ha | 11,794 kg/ha | 13,576 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Americas
More agriculture & rural data for Americas
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 94 kg/An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 25.19 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532,819 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 63,435 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 397,122 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 1.02 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 267.48 million An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 25.17 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.37 million ha (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 191.53 million An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Americas?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Americas was 11,794 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 14,146 kg/ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,372 kg/ha in 1980.
- How does Americas rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Americas ranks 15th out of 28 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is down 8.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Americas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sweet potatoes — Yield. 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.