Sweet potatoes — Yield in Cuba
Cuba: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 6,529 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Cuba, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Cuba recorded 6,529 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 11.9% on the previous year and down 48.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Cuba peaked at 12,605 kg/ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 2,682 kg/ha, in 1994.
Cuba ranks 77th 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 Cuba, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,438 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,374 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1963 | 4,364 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1964 | 4,167 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1965 | 4,167 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 4,000 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1967 | 3,833 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1968 | 3,758 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1969 | 3,871 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1970 | 3,651 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1971 | 3,889 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1972 | 3,905 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1973 | 3,825 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1974 | 3,875 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1975 | 3,815 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1976 | 3,788 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1977 | 3,925 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1978 | 4,147 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1979 | 4,329 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1980 | 4,534 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1981 | 4,438 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1982 | 3,398 kg/ha | -23.4% |
| 1983 | 4,250 kg/ha | +25.1% |
| 1984 | 4,509 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1985 | 4,281 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1986 | 4,075 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 1987 | 4,014 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1988 | 3,429 kg/ha | -14.6% |
| 1989 | 3,648 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1990 | 3,611 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1991 | 3,485 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1992 | 3,417 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1993 | 2,837 kg/ha | -17.0% |
| 1994 | 2,682 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1995 | 3,111 kg/ha | +16.0% |
| 1996 | 3,369 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1997 | 3,306 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1998 | 3,567 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 1999 | 4,918 kg/ha | +37.9% |
| 2000 | 5,633 kg/ha | +14.5% |
| 2001 | 5,963 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 2002 | 6,107 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2003 | 7,095 kg/ha | +16.2% |
| 2004 | 6,662 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 2005 | 6,060 kg/ha | -9.0% |
| 2006 | 6,430 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 2007 | 6,430 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 6,363 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2009 | 5,568 kg/ha | -12.5% |
| 2010 | 4,822 kg/ha | -13.4% |
| 2011 | 6,834 kg/ha | +41.7% |
| 2012 | 7,056 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2013 | 8,210 kg/ha | +16.4% |
| 2014 | 12,605 kg/ha | +53.5% |
| 2015 | 9,102 kg/ha | -27.8% |
| 2016 | 10,903 kg/ha | +19.8% |
| 2017 | 10,870 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2018 | 9,984 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 2019 | 11,369 kg/ha | +13.9% |
| 2020 | 9,045 kg/ha | -20.4% |
| 2021 | 8,597 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2022 | 8,263 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 2023 | 5,834 kg/ha | -29.4% |
| 2024 | 6,529 kg/ha | +11.9% |
Cuba compared with similar countries
- Cuba's 6,529 kg/ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 9,330 kg/ha, 70% of the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Cuba's 6,529 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 9,065 kg/ha, 72% of the median. (30 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Yield in Cuba 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | +53.5% | 8,210 kg/ha | 12,605 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,108 kg/ha | 3,758 kg/ha | 4,438 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,915 kg/ha | 3,651 kg/ha | 4,329 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,058 kg/ha | 3,398 kg/ha | 4,534 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,430 kg/ha | 2,682 kg/ha | 4,918 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,231 kg/ha | 5,568 kg/ha | 7,095 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,176 kg/ha | 4,822 kg/ha | 12,605 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 7,654 kg/ha | 5,834 kg/ha | 9,045 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Cuba
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -19.64 % change on previous year (2020)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0276 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2020)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 265.29 current US$ per person (2020)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.6522 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2020)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2277 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.2% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 1.2% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.5% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2022)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Cuba?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Cuba was 6,529 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Cuba?
- The highest recorded value was 12,605 kg/ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Cuba?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,682 kg/ha in 1994.
- How does Cuba rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Cuba ranks 77th out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Cuba?
- Over the last ten years it is down 48.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cuba 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.