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 82nd 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 | 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 share gdp 1.24 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.24 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.5% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2022)
- Rural population 22.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 2.49 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.2% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.96 billion current US$ (2020)
- Bananas — Production 155,957 t (2024)
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 82nd out of 125 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.