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 14th out of 25 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.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Americas, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 8,255 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 8,300 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1963 | 8,264 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1964 | 8,254 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1965 | 8,352 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1966 | 8,706 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1967 | 9,403 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 1968 | 9,056 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1969 | 9,385 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1970 | 9,284 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1971 | 9,364 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1972 | 9,629 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1973 | 9,053 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1974 | 8,561 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1975 | 8,539 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1976 | 8,171 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1977 | 7,696 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 1978 | 7,649 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1979 | 7,523 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1980 | 7,372 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1981 | 7,809 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1982 | 8,080 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1983 | 7,849 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1984 | 8,358 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1985 | 7,886 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1986 | 8,187 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1987 | 8,227 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1988 | 8,011 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1989 | 7,917 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1990 | 8,283 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1991 | 7,686 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 1992 | 7,659 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1993 | 7,811 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1994 | 8,419 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 1995 | 8,332 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1996 | 8,061 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1997 | 8,468 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1998 | 8,143 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1999 | 8,778 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 2000 | 9,002 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2001 | 9,326 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2002 | 8,913 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 2003 | 9,650 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 2004 | 9,787 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2005 | 9,080 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 2006 | 10,080 kg/ha | +11.0% |
| 2007 | 9,536 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 2008 | 9,596 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2009 | 9,566 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2010 | 9,732 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2011 | 11,224 kg/ha | +15.3% |
| 2012 | 11,224 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 12,942 kg/ha | +15.3% |
| 2014 | 12,814 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2015 | 12,387 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 2016 | 12,784 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2017 | 14,146 kg/ha | +10.7% |
| 2018 | 11,611 kg/ha | -17.9% |
| 2019 | 13,694 kg/ha | +17.9% |
| 2020 | 13,576 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2021 | 13,524 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2022 | 13,149 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2023 | 12,496 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2024 | 11,794 kg/ha | -5.6% |
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
- 11 Cook Islands 27,481 kg/ha compare
- 12 Malawi 25,355 kg/ha compare
- 12 Micronesia (Federated States of) 5,461 kg/ha compare
- 12 Micronesia 5,461 kg/ha compare
- 13 Portugal 24,323 kg/ha compare
- 14 China, Taiwan Province of 23,968 kg/ha compare
- 14 Democratic Republic of the Congo 5,012 kg/ha compare
- 15 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 4,244 kg/ha compare
- 15 Greece 23,922 kg/ha compare
- 16 Saint Lucia 23,707 kg/ha compare
- 16 Timor-Leste 2,504 kg/ha compare
- 17 Réunion 23,030 kg/ha compare
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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 14th out of 25 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.