Sweet potatoes — Yield in Chile
Chile: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 10,795 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Chile, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Chile recorded 10,795 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.2% on the previous year and down 0.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Chile peaked at 14,000 kg/ha in 1968 and was at its lowest, 5,883 kg/ha, in 1991.
That places Chile 50th out of 112 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Chile, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 10,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 11,250 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 1964 | 11,111 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1965 | 11,111 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 12,000 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 1967 | 12,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 14,000 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 1969 | 14,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 14,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 14,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 10,000 kg/ha | -28.6% |
| 1973 | 8,500 kg/ha | -15.0% |
| 1974 | 8,600 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1975 | 8,000 kg/ha | -7.0% |
| 1976 | 8,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 6,667 kg/ha | -16.7% |
| 1978 | 7,000 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1979 | 7,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 7,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 7,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 7,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 7,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 7,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 7,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 7,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 7,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 7,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 7,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 7,478 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 1991 | 5,883 kg/ha | -21.3% |
| 1992 | 5,991 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1993 | 6,099 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1994 | 6,207 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1995 | 6,315 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1996 | 6,423 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1997 | 6,530 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1998 | 6,616 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1999 | 6,856 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2000 | 7,000 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2001 | 7,000 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2002 | 7,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 7,328 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2004 | 7,292 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2005 | 7,317 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2006 | 7,440 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2007 | 7,308 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2008 | 7,802 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 2009 | 8,676 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 2010 | 9,282 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 2011 | 9,897 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 2012 | 10,769 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 2013 | 10,769 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 10,885 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 11,335 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2016 | 11,002 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2017 | 10,947 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2018 | 10,910 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2019 | 10,874 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2020 | 10,864 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2021 | 10,745 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2022 | 10,827 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2023 | 10,812 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2024 | 10,795 kg/ha | -0.2% |
Chile compared with similar countries
- Chile's 10,795 kg/ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 10,301 kg/ha, 1.0× the median. (24 countries reporting)
- Chile's 10,795 kg/ha is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 9,065 kg/ha, 1.2× the median. (30 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Yield in Chile 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | -28.6% | 14,000 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11,719 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 14,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 9,177 kg/ha | 6,667 kg/ha | 14,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,000 kg/ha | 7,000 kg/ha | 7,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,440 kg/ha | 5,883 kg/ha | 7,478 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,416 kg/ha | 7,000 kg/ha | 8,676 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,667 kg/ha | 9,282 kg/ha | 11,335 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,809 kg/ha | 10,745 kg/ha | 10,864 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Chile
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -2.03 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0345 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 621.34 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.18 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1082 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 3.5% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 3.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 4.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Chile?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Chile was 10,795 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Chile?
- The highest recorded value was 14,000 kg/ha in 1968.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Chile?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,883 kg/ha in 1991.
- How does Chile rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Chile ranks 50th out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Chile?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Chile 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.