Sweet potatoes — Yield in Argentina
Argentina: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 12,145 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Argentina, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — yield in Argentina stood at 12,145 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.9% on the previous year and down 10.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Argentina peaked at 17,667 kg/ha in 1994 and was at its lowest, 8,988 kg/ha, in 1974.
Argentina ranks 41st of 112 countries on this measure, 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 Argentina, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 10,208 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 9,996 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1963 | 10,026 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1964 | 9,870 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1965 | 9,477 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1966 | 10,002 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1967 | 10,589 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1968 | 9,138 kg/ha | -13.7% |
| 1969 | 10,536 kg/ha | +15.3% |
| 1970 | 9,910 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 1971 | 10,800 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 1972 | 10,734 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1973 | 11,330 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1974 | 8,988 kg/ha | -20.7% |
| 1975 | 10,208 kg/ha | +13.6% |
| 1976 | 9,211 kg/ha | -9.8% |
| 1977 | 9,167 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1978 | 9,412 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1979 | 9,527 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1980 | 8,988 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1981 | 10,107 kg/ha | +12.4% |
| 1982 | 11,536 kg/ha | +14.1% |
| 1983 | 11,151 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1984 | 10,552 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1985 | 11,781 kg/ha | +11.7% |
| 1986 | 12,741 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 1987 | 13,848 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 1988 | 16,096 kg/ha | +16.2% |
| 1989 | 14,591 kg/ha | -9.4% |
| 1990 | 13,186 kg/ha | -9.6% |
| 1991 | 13,136 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1992 | 12,727 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1993 | 12,296 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1994 | 17,667 kg/ha | +43.7% |
| 1995 | 16,800 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 1996 | 17,000 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1997 | 14,566 kg/ha | -14.3% |
| 1998 | 17,506 kg/ha | +20.2% |
| 1999 | 14,399 kg/ha | -17.7% |
| 2000 | 15,142 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 2001 | 15,521 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2002 | 15,589 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2003 | 15,434 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2004 | 15,164 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2005 | 15,082 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2006 | 14,998 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2007 | 14,838 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2008 | 14,678 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2009 | 14,518 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2010 | 14,304 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2011 | 14,070 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2012 | 13,898 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2013 | 13,720 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2014 | 13,544 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2015 | 13,373 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2016 | 13,206 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2017 | 13,117 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2018 | 13,023 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2019 | 12,000 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 2020 | 12,019 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 12,324 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2022 | 12,451 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2023 | 12,256 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2024 | 12,145 kg/ha | -0.9% |
Argentina compared with similar countries
- Argentina's 12,145 kg/ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 9,330 kg/ha, 1.3× the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Argentina's 12,145 kg/ha is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 9,065 kg/ha, 1.3× the median. (30 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Yield in Argentina changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | +43.7% | 12,296 kg/ha | 17,667 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,983 kg/ha | 9,138 kg/ha | 10,589 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 9,929 kg/ha | 8,988 kg/ha | 11,330 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 12,139 kg/ha | 8,988 kg/ha | 16,096 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 14,928 kg/ha | 12,296 kg/ha | 17,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 15,096 kg/ha | 14,518 kg/ha | 15,589 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 13,425 kg/ha | 12,000 kg/ha | 14,304 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 12,239 kg/ha | 12,019 kg/ha | 12,451 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Argentina
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 1.97 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0553 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 824.26 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.6693 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.0765 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 5.5% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 5.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Argentina?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Argentina was 12,145 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Argentina?
- The highest recorded value was 17,667 kg/ha in 1994.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Argentina?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,988 kg/ha in 1974.
- How does Argentina rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Argentina ranks 41st out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Argentina?
- Over the last ten years it is down 10.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Argentina 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.