Sweet potatoes — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 11,343 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — yield in Eastern Africa is 11,343 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 4.6% on the previous year and up 36.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 11,343 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 3,546 kg/ha, in 1972.
Eastern Africa ranks 17th of 28 groups 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 | 5,428 kg/ha | 4,692 kg/ha | 6,684 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,380 kg/ha | 3,546 kg/ha | 5,358 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,786 kg/ha | 4,336 kg/ha | 5,381 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,152 kg/ha | 3,558 kg/ha | 4,544 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,970 kg/ha | 4,266 kg/ha | 6,191 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,050 kg/ha | 5,903 kg/ha | 10,498 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,974 kg/ha | 10,826 kg/ha | 11,343 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Africa
- 14 China, Taiwan Province of 23,968 kg/ha compare
- 15 Greece 23,922 kg/ha compare
- 16 Saint Lucia 23,707 kg/ha compare
- 17 Morocco 22,841 kg/ha compare
- 18 Japan 22,547 kg/ha compare
- 19 China 22,214 kg/ha compare
- 20 China, mainland 22,207 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Eastern Africa
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 205,889 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 641,088 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.08 million ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 546,014 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 3.49 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Production 12.53 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 16,968 kg/ha (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 23.97 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 63,544 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 42 kg/An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Eastern Africa was 11,343 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 11,343 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,546 kg/ha in 1972.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 17th out of 28 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 36.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern Africa 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.