Sweet potatoes — Yield in Brazil
Brazil: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 14,883 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Brazil, 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 Brazil is 14,883 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.9% on the previous year and up 12.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Brazil peaked at 15,172 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 8,642 kg/ha, in 1996.
That places Brazil 34th out of 125 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 10,738 kg/ha | 9,869 kg/ha | 12,029 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,630 kg/ha | 8,948 kg/ha | 12,918 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,449 kg/ha | 8,695 kg/ha | 10,185 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 10,375 kg/ha | 8,642 kg/ha | 11,307 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 11,517 kg/ha | 11,035 kg/ha | 12,068 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 13,286 kg/ha | 11,846 kg/ha | 14,441 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 14,710 kg/ha | 14,264 kg/ha | 15,172 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Brazil
- 31 Israel 15,958 kg/ha compare
- 32 Mauritius 15,851 kg/ha compare
- 33 Republic of Korea 15,445 kg/ha compare
- 35 Niue 14,818 kg/ha compare
- 36 Solomon Islands 14,032 kg/ha compare
- 37 Cabo Verde 13,957 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Brazil
- Agriculture share gdp 6.09 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.09 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2025)
- Rural population 11.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth -2.0% (2025)
- Rural population 25.16 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 138.76 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 7.05 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Brazil?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Brazil was 14,883 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Brazil?
- The highest recorded value was 15,172 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Brazil?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,642 kg/ha in 1996.
- How does Brazil rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Brazil ranks 34th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Brazil?
- Over the last ten years it is up 12.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Brazil 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.