Sweet potatoes — Yield in China
China: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 22,214 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in China, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
China recorded 22,214 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 4.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in China peaked at 22,378 kg/ha in 2018 and was at its lowest, 7,062 kg/ha, in 1964.
China ranks 19th of 125 countries on this measure, in the top 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 | 9,288 kg/ha | 7,062 kg/ha | 11,974 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 13,052 kg/ha | 11,041 kg/ha | 14,112 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 16,449 kg/ha | 14,594 kg/ha | 18,220 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 18,377 kg/ha | 16,638 kg/ha | 21,215 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 21,247 kg/ha | 20,291 kg/ha | 22,181 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 21,557 kg/ha | 20,928 kg/ha | 22,378 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 22,220 kg/ha | 22,189 kg/ha | 22,245 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near China
More agriculture & rural data for China
- Agriculture share gdp 6.66 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.66 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.7% (2024)
- Rural population 33.7% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.5% (2025)
- Rural population 473.41 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.30 trillion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 12.10 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in China?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in China was 22,214 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in China?
- The highest recorded value was 22,378 kg/ha in 2018.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in China?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,062 kg/ha in 1964.
- How does China rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- China ranks 19th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in China?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this China 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.