Sweet potatoes — Yield in Benin
Benin: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 9,126 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Benin, 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 Benin is 9,126 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 18.0% on the previous year and up 52.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Benin peaked at 12,125 kg/ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 2,056 kg/ha, in 2007.
Benin ranks 64th of 125 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,583 kg/ha | 2,402 kg/ha | 4,362 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,919 kg/ha | 3,415 kg/ha | 4,139 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,696 kg/ha | 3,103 kg/ha | 5,251 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,292 kg/ha | 4,694 kg/ha | 6,325 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,787 kg/ha | 2,056 kg/ha | 6,386 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,316 kg/ha | 4,198 kg/ha | 12,125 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,648 kg/ha | 5,340 kg/ha | 9,126 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Benin
- 61 Dominican Republic 9,461 kg/ha compare
- 62 Puerto Rico 9,332 kg/ha compare
- 63 Paraguay 9,199 kg/ha compare
- 65 Fiji 9,000 kg/ha compare
- 66 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 8,931 kg/ha compare
- 67 Myanmar 8,874 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Benin
- Agriculture share gdp 22.92 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 22.92 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 52.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2024)
- Rural population 46.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 6.91 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 22.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.63 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 20,973 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Benin?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Benin was 9,126 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Benin?
- The highest recorded value was 12,125 kg/ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Benin?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,056 kg/ha in 2007.
- How does Benin rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Benin ranks 64th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Benin?
- Over the last ten years it is up 52.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Benin 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.