Sweet potatoes — Yield in Australia
Australia: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 41,794 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Australia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — yield in Australia is 41,794 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.0% on the previous year and up 5.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Australia peaked at 41,794 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 5,528 kg/ha, in 1971.
Australia ranks 3rd of 125 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,890 kg/ha | 5,943 kg/ha | 9,393 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 9,520 kg/ha | 5,528 kg/ha | 12,067 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 12,509 kg/ha | 11,701 kg/ha | 13,632 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 18,136 kg/ha | 12,755 kg/ha | 27,692 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 31,464 kg/ha | 25,080 kg/ha | 34,737 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 36,431 kg/ha | 29,778 kg/ha | 39,562 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 40,905 kg/ha | 39,456 kg/ha | 41,794 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Australia
- Agriculture share gdp 2.27 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 2.27 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2025)
- Rural population 12.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.6% (2025)
- Rural population 3.39 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 40.76 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 368,735 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Australia?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Australia was 41,794 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Australia?
- The highest recorded value was 41,794 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Australia?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,528 kg/ha in 1971.
- How does Australia rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Australia ranks 3rd out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Australia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Australia 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.