Sweet potatoes — Yield in Asia
Asia: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 20,619 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Asia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — yield in Asia stood at 20,619 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 6.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Asia peaked at 20,619 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 7,437 kg/ha, in 1961.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Asia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7,437 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 7,856 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1963 | 8,392 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 1964 | 7,438 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 1965 | 9,432 kg/ha | +26.8% |
| 1966 | 9,902 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1967 | 10,660 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1968 | 11,014 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1969 | 11,567 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1970 | 12,398 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 1971 | 12,073 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1972 | 10,756 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 1973 | 13,408 kg/ha | +24.6% |
| 1974 | 12,215 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 1975 | 12,808 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1976 | 12,605 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1977 | 12,531 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1978 | 12,921 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1979 | 12,768 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1980 | 13,881 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 1981 | 13,582 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1982 | 14,489 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1983 | 15,696 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1984 | 15,968 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1985 | 15,659 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1986 | 15,226 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1987 | 16,810 kg/ha | +10.4% |
| 1988 | 15,160 kg/ha | -9.8% |
| 1989 | 15,598 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1990 | 15,496 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1991 | 15,741 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1992 | 15,469 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1993 | 16,704 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 1994 | 16,342 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1995 | 17,699 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1996 | 18,823 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1997 | 16,009 kg/ha | -15.0% |
| 1998 | 18,024 kg/ha | +12.6% |
| 1999 | 19,562 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 2000 | 18,790 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 2001 | 19,095 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2002 | 19,925 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2003 | 19,102 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 2004 | 19,962 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2005 | 20,330 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2006 | 19,943 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2007 | 18,779 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 2008 | 18,997 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2009 | 19,393 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2010 | 18,891 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 2011 | 19,550 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2012 | 19,425 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2013 | 19,217 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2014 | 19,428 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 19,758 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2016 | 19,377 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2017 | 20,333 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 2018 | 20,540 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2019 | 20,320 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2020 | 20,518 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2021 | 20,578 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2022 | 20,592 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 20,561 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2024 | 20,619 kg/ha | +0.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,300 kg/ha | 7,437 kg/ha | 11,567 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 12,448 kg/ha | 10,756 kg/ha | 13,408 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 15,207 kg/ha | 13,582 kg/ha | 16,810 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 16,987 kg/ha | 15,469 kg/ha | 19,562 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 19,432 kg/ha | 18,779 kg/ha | 20,330 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 19,684 kg/ha | 18,891 kg/ha | 20,540 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 20,573 kg/ha | 20,518 kg/ha | 20,619 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Asia
- 1 Guyana 103,206 kg/ha compare
- 2 Lao People's Democratic Republic 17,455 kg/ha compare
- 2 Senegal 46,084 kg/ha compare
- 3 Australia 41,794 kg/ha compare
- 3 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 13,671 kg/ha compare
- 4 Palestine 39,473 kg/ha compare
- 4 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 12,987 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Asia?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Asia was 20,619 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 20,619 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,437 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Asia rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Asia ranks 1st out of 16 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Asia 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.