Sweet potatoes — Yield in Ecuador
Ecuador: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 2,007 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Ecuador, 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 Ecuador is 2,007 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and up 10.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Ecuador peaked at 6,655 kg/ha in 1987 and was at its lowest, 971 kg/ha, in 2003.
Ecuador ranks 105th of 112 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Ecuador, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,155 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,256 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1963 | 3,722 kg/ha | -12.5% |
| 1964 | 4,088 kg/ha | +9.8% |
| 1965 | 2,616 kg/ha | -36.0% |
| 1966 | 2,485 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1967 | 3,646 kg/ha | +46.7% |
| 1968 | 3,026 kg/ha | -17.0% |
| 1969 | 3,945 kg/ha | +30.4% |
| 1970 | 3,671 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 1971 | 2,987 kg/ha | -18.6% |
| 1972 | 2,894 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1973 | 3,812 kg/ha | +31.7% |
| 1974 | 5,032 kg/ha | +32.0% |
| 1975 | 4,964 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1976 | 5,973 kg/ha | +20.3% |
| 1977 | 4,662 kg/ha | -21.9% |
| 1978 | 4,651 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1979 | 5,004 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1980 | 4,398 kg/ha | -12.1% |
| 1981 | 5,007 kg/ha | +13.8% |
| 1982 | 5,441 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 1983 | 5,118 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 1984 | 5,331 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1985 | 6,062 kg/ha | +13.7% |
| 1986 | 6,311 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1987 | 6,655 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1988 | 4,531 kg/ha | -31.9% |
| 1989 | 6,039 kg/ha | +33.3% |
| 1990 | 5,952 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1991 | 2,657 kg/ha | -55.4% |
| 1992 | 2,867 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 1993 | 3,628 kg/ha | +26.5% |
| 1994 | 4,897 kg/ha | +35.0% |
| 1995 | 3,527 kg/ha | -28.0% |
| 1996 | 3,643 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1997 | 3,875 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1998 | 1,759 kg/ha | -54.6% |
| 1999 | 5,677 kg/ha | +222.7% |
| 2000 | 2,918 kg/ha | -48.6% |
| 2001 | 2,813 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2002 | 1,302 kg/ha | -53.7% |
| 2003 | 971 kg/ha | -25.4% |
| 2004 | 2,576 kg/ha | +165.3% |
| 2005 | 3,065 kg/ha | +19.0% |
| 2006 | 1,875 kg/ha | -38.8% |
| 2007 | 1,882 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2008 | 2,124 kg/ha | +12.9% |
| 2009 | 1,895 kg/ha | -10.8% |
| 2010 | 1,880 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2011 | 1,907 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2012 | 1,956 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2013 | 1,909 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2014 | 1,817 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 2015 | 1,817 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 1,931 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 2017 | 1,944 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2018 | 1,979 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2019 | 2,047 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2020 | 1,990 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2021 | 2,005 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2022 | 2,014 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2023 | 2,003 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2024 | 2,007 kg/ha | +0.2% |
Ecuador compared with similar countries
- Ecuador's 2,007 kg/ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 9,330 kg/ha, 22% of the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Ecuador's 2,007 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 9,065 kg/ha, 22% of the median. (30 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Yield in Ecuador 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | +222.7% | 1,759 kg/ha | 5,677 kg/ha |
| 2004 | +165.3% | 971 kg/ha | 2,576 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,549 kg/ha | 2,485 kg/ha | 4,256 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,365 kg/ha | 2,894 kg/ha | 5,973 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,489 kg/ha | 4,398 kg/ha | 6,655 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,848 kg/ha | 1,759 kg/ha | 5,952 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,142 kg/ha | 971 kg/ha | 3,065 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,919 kg/ha | 1,817 kg/ha | 2,047 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,004 kg/ha | 1,990 kg/ha | 2,014 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Ecuador
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.59 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.097 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 691.36 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4287 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3661 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 9.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 9.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Ecuador?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Ecuador was 2,007 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Ecuador?
- The highest recorded value was 6,655 kg/ha in 1987.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Ecuador?
- The lowest recorded value was 971 kg/ha in 2003.
- How does Ecuador rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Ecuador ranks 105th out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Ecuador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Ecuador 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.