Sweet potatoes — Yield in Cabo Verde
Cabo Verde: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 13,957 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Cabo Verde, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — yield in Cabo Verde stood at 13,957 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 24.0% on the previous year and down 28.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Cabo Verde peaked at 26,031 kg/ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 1,323 kg/ha, in 1971.
Cabo Verde ranks 10th of 25 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.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Cabo Verde, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2,167 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,500 kg/ha | +15.4% |
| 1963 | 2,167 kg/ha | -13.3% |
| 1964 | 2,333 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1965 | 2,167 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 1966 | 2,083 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1967 | 2,775 kg/ha | +33.2% |
| 1968 | 2,630 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1969 | 1,999 kg/ha | -24.0% |
| 1970 | 1,400 kg/ha | -30.0% |
| 1971 | 1,323 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 1972 | 1,472 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 1973 | 1,445 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1974 | 1,714 kg/ha | +18.6% |
| 1975 | 1,714 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 1,714 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 1,571 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 1978 | 1,625 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1979 | 1,750 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1980 | 2,000 kg/ha | +14.3% |
| 1981 | 2,167 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1982 | 2,000 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 1983 | 1,581 kg/ha | -20.9% |
| 1984 | 1,656 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1985 | 1,733 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1986 | 4,413 kg/ha | +154.6% |
| 1987 | 6,850 kg/ha | +55.2% |
| 1988 | 8,000 kg/ha | +16.8% |
| 1989 | 7,997 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1990 | 8,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1991 | 6,476 kg/ha | -19.0% |
| 1992 | 5,133 kg/ha | -20.7% |
| 1993 | 5,981 kg/ha | +16.5% |
| 1994 | 6,495 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1995 | 6,796 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1996 | 5,213 kg/ha | -23.3% |
| 1997 | 7,512 kg/ha | +44.1% |
| 1998 | 5,231 kg/ha | -30.4% |
| 1999 | 5,278 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2000 | 17,600 kg/ha | +233.5% |
| 2001 | 17,333 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2002 | 17,596 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2003 | 17,451 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2004 | 17,400 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2005 | 16,990 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2006 | 17,030 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2007 | 17,143 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2008 | 17,083 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2009 | 17,111 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2010 | 16,536 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2011 | 15,962 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2012 | 16,177 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2013 | 18,140 kg/ha | +12.1% |
| 2014 | 19,489 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 2015 | 17,026 kg/ha | -12.6% |
| 2016 | 20,480 kg/ha | +20.3% |
| 2017 | 26,031 kg/ha | +27.1% |
| 2018 | 20,506 kg/ha | -21.2% |
| 2019 | 17,410 kg/ha | -15.1% |
| 2020 | 16,856 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2021 | 19,026 kg/ha | +12.9% |
| 2022 | 14,369 kg/ha | -24.5% |
| 2023 | 11,251 kg/ha | -21.7% |
| 2024 | 13,957 kg/ha | +24.0% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Yield in Cabo Verde changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | +233.5% | 5,278 kg/ha | 17,600 kg/ha |
| 1986 | +154.6% | 1,733 kg/ha | 4,413 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,313 kg/ha | 1,999 kg/ha | 2,775 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,573 kg/ha | 1,323 kg/ha | 1,750 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,840 kg/ha | 1,581 kg/ha | 8,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,212 kg/ha | 5,133 kg/ha | 8,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 17,274 kg/ha | 16,990 kg/ha | 17,600 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 18,776 kg/ha | 15,962 kg/ha | 26,031 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 15,092 kg/ha | 11,251 kg/ha | 19,026 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Cabo Verde
- 7 Botswana 29,658 kg/ha compare
- 7 Polynesia 10,197 kg/ha compare
- 8 Spain 29,045 kg/ha compare
- 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 Melanesia 5,636 kg/ha compare
- 11 Cook Islands 27,481 kg/ha compare
- 12 Malawi 25,355 kg/ha compare
- 12 Micronesia (Federated States of) 5,461 kg/ha compare
- 12 Micronesia 5,461 kg/ha compare
- 13 Portugal 24,323 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Cabo Verde?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Cabo Verde was 13,957 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Cabo Verde?
- The highest recorded value was 26,031 kg/ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Cabo Verde?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,323 kg/ha in 1971.
- How does Cabo Verde rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Cabo Verde ranks 10th out of 25 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Cabo Verde?
- Over the last ten years it is down 28.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Cabo Verde 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.