Sweet potatoes — Yield in Caribbean
Caribbean: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 5,042 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Caribbean, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Caribbean recorded 5,042 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.1% on the previous year and down 37.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Caribbean peaked at 8,676 kg/ha in 2013 and was at its lowest, 3,228 kg/ha, in 1994.
Caribbean ranks 97th of 125 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,936 kg/ha | 4,758 kg/ha | 5,234 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,774 kg/ha | 4,475 kg/ha | 4,895 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,430 kg/ha | 3,747 kg/ha | 5,311 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,584 kg/ha | 3,228 kg/ha | 4,246 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,933 kg/ha | 4,491 kg/ha | 5,571 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,842 kg/ha | 4,921 kg/ha | 8,676 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,003 kg/ha | 5,039 kg/ha | 6,980 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Caribbean
- 94 Equatorial Guinea 5,347 kg/ha compare
- 95 Papua New Guinea 5,127 kg/ha compare
- 96 Saint Kitts and Nevis 5,105 kg/ha compare
- 98 Democratic Republic of the Congo 5,012 kg/ha compare
- 99 Mozambique 5,000 kg/ha compare
- 100 Guinea-Bissau 4,918 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Caribbean
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- Bananas — Area harvested 150,870 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 2.72 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 71 kg/An (2024)
- Cabbages — Area harvested 8,527 ha (2024)
- Cabbages — Yield 19,733 kg/ha (2024)
- Cabbages — Production 168,261 t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production 7,589 t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 1.91 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 13,712 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Caribbean?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Caribbean was 5,042 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 8,676 kg/ha in 2013.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,228 kg/ha in 1994.
- How does Caribbean rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Caribbean ranks 97th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is down 37.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Caribbean 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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About this data
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.