Sweet potatoes — Yield in Congo
Congo: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 7,172 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Congo, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Congo recorded 7,172 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 0.6% on the previous year and up 0.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Congo peaked at 7,368 kg/ha in 2001 and was at its lowest, 5,000 kg/ha, in 1961.
Congo ranks 77th 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 | 5,744 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 6,250 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,459 kg/ha | 6,250 kg/ha | 6,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,465 kg/ha | 6,410 kg/ha | 6,571 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,564 kg/ha | 6,456 kg/ha | 6,720 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,918 kg/ha | 6,400 kg/ha | 7,368 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,132 kg/ha | 7,000 kg/ha | 7,234 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 7,138 kg/ha | 6,999 kg/ha | 7,287 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Congo
- Agriculture share gdp 10.11 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 10.11 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.4% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
- Rural population 35.9% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.7% (2025)
- Rural population 2.33 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 10.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.65 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 86,254 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Congo?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Congo was 7,172 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Congo?
- The highest recorded value was 7,368 kg/ha in 2001.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Congo?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,000 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Congo rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Congo ranks 77th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Congo?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Congo 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.