Sweet potatoes — Yield in Burundi
Burundi: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 11,793 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Burundi, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — yield in Burundi stood at 11,793 kg/ha.
The figure is up 2.1% on the previous year and up 17.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Burundi peaked at 13,302 kg/ha in 2016 and was at its lowest, 5,905 kg/ha, in 1998.
That places Burundi 47th 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 | 6,324 kg/ha | 6,290 kg/ha | 6,349 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,341 kg/ha | 6,132 kg/ha | 6,635 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,377 kg/ha | 6,329 kg/ha | 6,432 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,273 kg/ha | 5,905 kg/ha | 6,555 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,585 kg/ha | 6,249 kg/ha | 6,722 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,390 kg/ha | 6,504 kg/ha | 13,302 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,303 kg/ha | 10,921 kg/ha | 11,793 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Burundi
- Agriculture share gdp 34.29 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 34.29 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.5% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2023)
- Rural population 74.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.3% (2025)
- Rural population 10.69 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 34.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.15 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 1.21 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Burundi?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Burundi was 11,793 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Burundi?
- The highest recorded value was 13,302 kg/ha in 2016.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Burundi?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,905 kg/ha in 1998.
- How does Burundi rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Burundi ranks 47th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Burundi?
- Over the last ten years it is up 17.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Burundi 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.