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 83rd out of 125 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.
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 share gdp 7.95 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 7.95 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2025)
- Rural population 58.4% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.7% (2025)
- Rural population 247,148 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 7.9% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 254.62 million current US$ (2024)
- Bananas — Production 85,072 t (2024)
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 83rd out of 125 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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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.