Sweet potatoes — Yield in Cameroon
Cameroon: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 6,780 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Cameroon, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — yield in Cameroon stood at 6,780 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 0.7% on the previous year and up 15.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Cameroon peaked at 7,815 kg/ha in 1990 and was at its lowest, 2,532 kg/ha, in 1965.
Cameroon ranks 81st of 125 countries on this measure, 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 | 2,742 kg/ha | 2,532 kg/ha | 3,078 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,537 kg/ha | 3,243 kg/ha | 3,805 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,223 kg/ha | 3,143 kg/ha | 7,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,631 kg/ha | 6,106 kg/ha | 7,815 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,635 kg/ha | 4,156 kg/ha | 6,759 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,096 kg/ha | 4,990 kg/ha | 7,580 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,715 kg/ha | 6,526 kg/ha | 6,939 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Cameroon
- Agriculture share gdp 16.85 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.85 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
- Rural population 44.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.0% (2025)
- Rural population 13.25 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.8% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.93 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 805,353 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Cameroon?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Cameroon was 6,780 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 7,815 kg/ha in 1990.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,532 kg/ha in 1965.
- How does Cameroon rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Cameroon ranks 81st out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 15.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cameroon 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.