Sweet potatoes — Yield in Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 4,829 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Antigua and Barbuda, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Antigua and Barbuda recorded 4,829 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 22.0% on the previous year and down 23.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Antigua and Barbuda peaked at 7,540 kg/ha in 1979 and was at its lowest, 1,817 kg/ha, in 2021.
Antigua and Barbuda ranks 101st of 125 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,804 kg/ha | 3,533 kg/ha | 4,100 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,419 kg/ha | 3,970 kg/ha | 7,540 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,115 kg/ha | 3,352 kg/ha | 7,355 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,951 kg/ha | 5,833 kg/ha | 6,154 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,016 kg/ha | 5,714 kg/ha | 6,250 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,047 kg/ha | 4,990 kg/ha | 6,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,818 kg/ha | 1,817 kg/ha | 4,829 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Antigua and Barbuda
- 98 Democratic Republic of the Congo 5,012 kg/ha compare
- 99 Mozambique 5,000 kg/ha compare
- 100 Guinea-Bissau 4,918 kg/ha compare
- 102 Comoros 4,756 kg/ha compare
- 103 Uganda 4,630 kg/ha compare
- 104 Guinea 4,358 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Antigua and Barbuda
- Rural population 75.7% (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 1.49 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.1% (2024)
- Rural population growth 0.5% (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.49 (2025)
- Rural population 71,285 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 34.74 million current US$ (2025)
- Milk yields per animal 957.42 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Antigua and Barbuda?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Antigua and Barbuda was 4,829 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Antigua and Barbuda?
- The highest recorded value was 7,540 kg/ha in 1979.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Antigua and Barbuda?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,817 kg/ha in 2021.
- How does Antigua and Barbuda rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Antigua and Barbuda ranks 101st out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Antigua and Barbuda?
- Over the last ten years it is down 23.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Antigua and Barbuda 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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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.