Sweet potatoes — Yield in Belize
Belize: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 6,469 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Belize, 1989–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Belize recorded 6,469 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 17.1% on the previous year and down 8.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Belize peaked at 10,875 kg/ha in 1990 and was at its lowest, 4,280 kg/ha, in 1999.
That places Belize 78th out of 112 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 36 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Belize, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 9,085 kg/ha | — |
| 1990 | 10,875 kg/ha | +19.7% |
| 1991 | 4,565 kg/ha | -58.0% |
| 1992 | 7,432 kg/ha | +62.8% |
| 1993 | 9,414 kg/ha | +26.7% |
| 1994 | 9,700 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1995 | 7,875 kg/ha | -18.8% |
| 1996 | 7,522 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1997 | 5,353 kg/ha | -28.8% |
| 1998 | 6,179 kg/ha | +15.4% |
| 1999 | 4,280 kg/ha | -30.7% |
| 2000 | 7,909 kg/ha | +84.8% |
| 2001 | 7,763 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2002 | 8,000 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2003 | 7,542 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 2004 | 6,533 kg/ha | -13.4% |
| 2005 | 8,333 kg/ha | +27.6% |
| 2006 | 10,667 kg/ha | +28.0% |
| 2007 | 7,667 kg/ha | -28.1% |
| 2008 | 9,000 kg/ha | +17.4% |
| 2009 | 8,000 kg/ha | -11.1% |
| 2010 | 7,953 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2011 | 9,250 kg/ha | +16.3% |
| 2012 | 9,000 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2013 | 7,714 kg/ha | -14.3% |
| 2014 | 7,089 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 2015 | 8,200 kg/ha | +15.7% |
| 2016 | 7,333 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 2017 | 6,467 kg/ha | -11.8% |
| 2018 | 7,500 kg/ha | +16.0% |
| 2019 | 4,778 kg/ha | -36.3% |
| 2020 | 4,857 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2021 | 5,146 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 2022 | 4,812 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 2023 | 5,526 kg/ha | +14.8% |
| 2024 | 6,469 kg/ha | +17.1% |
Belize compared with similar countries
- Belize's 6,469 kg/ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 9,330 kg/ha, 69% of the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Belize's 6,469 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 9,065 kg/ha, 71% of the median. (30 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 9,085 kg/ha | 9,085 kg/ha | 9,085 kg/ha | 1 |
| 1990s | 7,320 kg/ha | 4,280 kg/ha | 10,875 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,141 kg/ha | 6,533 kg/ha | 10,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,528 kg/ha | 4,778 kg/ha | 9,250 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,362 kg/ha | 4,812 kg/ha | 6,469 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Belize
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.52 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0795 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 610.5 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.74 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5844 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 7.9% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 7.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Belize?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Belize was 6,469 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Belize?
- The highest recorded value was 10,875 kg/ha in 1990.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Belize?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,280 kg/ha in 1999.
- How does Belize rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Belize ranks 78th out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Belize?
- Over the last ten years it is down 8.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Belize 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.