Sweet potatoes — Yield in Botswana
Botswana: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 29,658 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Botswana, 2018–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — yield in Botswana stood at 29,658 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 7 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 11.3% on the previous year and up 159.5% over ten years.
Botswana ranks 7th of 112 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Botswana, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 11,429 kg/ha | — |
| 2019 | 13,636 kg/ha | +19.3% |
| 2020 | 18,616 kg/ha | +36.5% |
| 2021 | 22,783 kg/ha | +22.4% |
| 2022 | 27,872 kg/ha | +22.3% |
| 2023 | 26,638 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 2024 | 29,658 kg/ha | +11.3% |
Botswana compared with similar countries
- Botswana's 29,658 kg/ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 9,330 kg/ha, 3.2× the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Botswana's 29,658 kg/ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 7,417 kg/ha, 4.0× the median. (36 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 12,532 kg/ha | 11,429 kg/ha | 13,636 kg/ha | 2 |
| 2020s | 25,114 kg/ha | 18,616 kg/ha | 29,658 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Botswana
- 4 Palestine 39,473 kg/ha compare
- 4 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 12,987 kg/ha compare
- 5 Egypt 36,993 kg/ha compare
- 5 Viet Nam 12,040 kg/ha compare
- 6 Australia and New Zealand 30,206 kg/ha compare
- 7 Polynesia 10,197 kg/ha compare
- 8 Spain 29,045 kg/ha
- 9 Ethiopia 28,431 kg/ha compare
- 9 United Republic of Tanzania 6,437 kg/ha compare
- 10 Barbados 27,604 kg/ha compare
- 10 Cabo Verde 13,957 kg/ha compare
- 10 Melanesia 5,636 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Botswana
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 4.45 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0178 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 138.54 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.0839 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3204 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 1.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Botswana?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Botswana was 29,658 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Botswana?
- The highest recorded value was 29,658 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Botswana?
- The lowest recorded value was 11,429 kg/ha in 2018.
- How does Botswana rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Botswana ranks 7th out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Botswana?
- Over the last ten years it is up 159.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Botswana 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.