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 72nd of 112 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.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Congo, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,385 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1963 | 5,385 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 5,714 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1965 | 5,714 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 6,000 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1967 | 6,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 6,250 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1969 | 6,250 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 6,250 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 6,471 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1972 | 6,471 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 6,667 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1974 | 6,383 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1975 | 6,500 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1976 | 6,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 6,569 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1978 | 6,368 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1979 | 6,410 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1980 | 6,410 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 6,410 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 6,410 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 6,410 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 6,486 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1985 | 6,486 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 6,486 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 6,486 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 6,486 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 6,571 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1990 | 6,720 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1991 | 6,456 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1992 | 6,485 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1993 | 6,471 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1994 | 6,513 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1995 | 6,542 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1996 | 6,562 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1997 | 6,605 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1998 | 6,615 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1999 | 6,667 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2000 | 6,400 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 2001 | 7,368 kg/ha | +15.1% |
| 2002 | 6,448 kg/ha | -12.5% |
| 2003 | 7,059 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 2004 | 6,938 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2005 | 6,941 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 6,959 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2007 | 6,988 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2008 | 7,059 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2009 | 7,018 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2010 | 7,000 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2011 | 7,050 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2012 | 7,083 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2013 | 7,125 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2014 | 7,123 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2015 | 7,150 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2016 | 7,162 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 7,180 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 7,211 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 7,234 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2020 | 6,999 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 2021 | 7,287 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2022 | 7,102 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2023 | 7,128 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2024 | 7,172 kg/ha | +0.6% |
Congo compared with similar countries
- Congo's 7,172 kg/ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 6,839 kg/ha, 1.0× the median. (28 countries reporting)
- Congo's 7,172 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 7,417 kg/ha, 97% of the median. (36 countries reporting)
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, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 11.08 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1011 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 254.21 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.72 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3588 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 10.1% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 10.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.4% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
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 72nd out of 112 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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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.