Sweet potatoes — Yield in Eastern Asia
Eastern Asia: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 22,012 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Eastern Asia, 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 Asia is 22,012 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 4.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Eastern Asia peaked at 22,158 kg/ha in 2018 and was at its lowest, 7,534 kg/ha, in 1961.
Eastern Asia ranks 4th of 25 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Eastern Asia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7,534 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 8,021 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1963 | 8,676 kg/ha | +8.2% |
| 1964 | 7,602 kg/ha | -12.4% |
| 1965 | 9,787 kg/ha | +28.7% |
| 1966 | 10,311 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1967 | 11,163 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1968 | 11,604 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1969 | 12,149 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1970 | 13,066 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1971 | 12,708 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1972 | 11,229 kg/ha | -11.6% |
| 1973 | 14,198 kg/ha | +26.4% |
| 1974 | 12,878 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 1975 | 13,541 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1976 | 13,395 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1977 | 13,369 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1978 | 13,771 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1979 | 13,648 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1980 | 15,108 kg/ha | +10.7% |
| 1981 | 14,710 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1982 | 15,719 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1983 | 17,109 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1984 | 17,445 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1985 | 17,063 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1986 | 16,538 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1987 | 18,263 kg/ha | +10.4% |
| 1988 | 16,433 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 1989 | 16,886 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1990 | 16,712 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1991 | 17,041 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1992 | 16,770 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1993 | 18,196 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 1994 | 17,774 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1995 | 19,286 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 1996 | 20,430 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1997 | 17,216 kg/ha | -15.7% |
| 1998 | 19,445 kg/ha | +12.9% |
| 1999 | 21,179 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 2000 | 20,297 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2001 | 20,660 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2002 | 21,674 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 2003 | 20,743 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2004 | 21,716 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2005 | 22,141 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2006 | 22,059 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2007 | 20,660 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 2008 | 20,758 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2009 | 21,477 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2010 | 20,838 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2011 | 21,536 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2012 | 21,323 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2013 | 20,960 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2014 | 21,088 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2015 | 21,382 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2016 | 20,876 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2017 | 22,094 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2018 | 22,158 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2019 | 21,881 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2020 | 22,008 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2021 | 22,001 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2022 | 21,983 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2023 | 22,020 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 22,012 kg/ha | -0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,650 kg/ha | 7,534 kg/ha | 12,149 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 13,180 kg/ha | 11,229 kg/ha | 14,198 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 16,527 kg/ha | 14,710 kg/ha | 18,263 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 18,405 kg/ha | 16,712 kg/ha | 21,179 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 21,218 kg/ha | 20,297 kg/ha | 22,141 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 21,414 kg/ha | 20,838 kg/ha | 22,158 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 22,005 kg/ha | 21,983 kg/ha | 22,020 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Asia
- 1 Guyana 103,206 kg/ha compare
- 2 Lao People's Democratic Republic 17,455 kg/ha compare
- 2 Senegal 46,084 kg/ha compare
- 3 Australia 41,794 kg/ha compare
- 3 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 13,671 kg/ha compare
- 4 Palestine 39,473 kg/ha compare
- 4 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 12,987 kg/ha compare
- 5 Egypt 36,993 kg/ha compare
- 5 Viet Nam 12,040 kg/ha compare
- 6 Australia and New Zealand 30,206 kg/ha compare
- 7 Botswana 29,658 kg/ha compare
- 7 Polynesia 10,197 kg/ha compare
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- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) -0.0235 % change on previous year (2024)
- Edible offal of cattle, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production, annual 2.61 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Eastern Asia?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Eastern Asia was 22,012 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Eastern Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 22,158 kg/ha in 2018.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Eastern Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,534 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Eastern Asia rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Eastern Asia ranks 4th out of 25 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Eastern Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern Asia 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.