Sweet potatoes — Yield in Bhutan
Bhutan: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 1,959 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Bhutan, 2004–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Bhutan recorded 1,959 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 1.4% on the previous year and up 31.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Bhutan peaked at 4,799 kg/ha in 2004 and was at its lowest, 973.5 kg/ha, in 2017.
Bhutan ranks 106th of 112 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 21 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Bhutan, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 4,799 kg/ha | — |
| 2005 | 4,137 kg/ha | -13.8% |
| 2006 | 2,861 kg/ha | -30.8% |
| 2007 | 1,647 kg/ha | -42.4% |
| 2008 | 1,345 kg/ha | -18.3% |
| 2009 | 1,010 kg/ha | -25.0% |
| 2010 | 1,397 kg/ha | +38.3% |
| 2011 | 1,431 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2012 | 1,408 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2013 | 1,331 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 2014 | 1,492 kg/ha | +12.1% |
| 2015 | 1,729 kg/ha | +15.9% |
| 2016 | 2,311 kg/ha | +33.6% |
| 2017 | 973.5 kg/ha | -57.9% |
| 2018 | 1,250 kg/ha | +28.4% |
| 2019 | 1,916 kg/ha | +53.4% |
| 2020 | 2,512 kg/ha | +31.1% |
| 2021 | 2,545 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2022 | 1,885 kg/ha | -25.9% |
| 2023 | 1,987 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2024 | 1,959 kg/ha | -1.4% |
Bhutan compared with similar countries
- Bhutan's 1,959 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 6,839 kg/ha, 29% of the median. (28 countries reporting)
- Bhutan's 1,959 kg/ha is below the median for South Asia, which is 10,806 kg/ha, 18% of the median. (5 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 2,633 kg/ha | 1,010 kg/ha | 4,799 kg/ha | 6 |
| 2010s | 1,524 kg/ha | 973.5 kg/ha | 2,311 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,177 kg/ha | 1,885 kg/ha | 2,545 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Bhutan
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 3.41 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1368 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 614.64 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.8653 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5657 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 13.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 13.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.0% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Bhutan?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Bhutan was 1,959 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Bhutan?
- The highest recorded value was 4,799 kg/ha in 2004.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Bhutan?
- The lowest recorded value was 973.5 kg/ha in 2017.
- How does Bhutan rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Bhutan ranks 106th out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Bhutan?
- Over the last ten years it is up 31.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Bhutan 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.