Sweet potatoes — Yield in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 11,412 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Burkina Faso, 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 Burkina Faso is 11,412 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 2.8% on the previous year and up 94.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Burkina Faso peaked at 19,033 kg/ha in 2011 and was at its lowest, 1,272 kg/ha, in 1962.
Burkina Faso ranks 49th of 125 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,314 kg/ha | 1,272 kg/ha | 3,252 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,102 kg/ha | 2,833 kg/ha | 6,750 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,540 kg/ha | 5,040 kg/ha | 9,200 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,779 kg/ha | 3,676 kg/ha | 8,403 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,131 kg/ha | 6,171 kg/ha | 13,317 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,237 kg/ha | 5,872 kg/ha | 19,033 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,352 kg/ha | 9,908 kg/ha | 11,931 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Burkina Faso
- Agriculture share gdp 19.94 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 19.94 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 6.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2024)
- Rural population 71.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.4% (2025)
- Rural population 17.11 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 19.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.51 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 46,922 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Burkina Faso?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Burkina Faso was 11,412 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Burkina Faso?
- The highest recorded value was 19,033 kg/ha in 2011.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Burkina Faso?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,272 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Burkina Faso rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Burkina Faso ranks 49th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Burkina Faso?
- Over the last ten years it is up 94.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Burkina Faso 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.