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 117th of 125 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
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 |
Countries ranked near Ecuador
More agriculture & rural data for Ecuador
- Agriculture share gdp 9.7 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.7 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
- Rural population 36.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.4% (2025)
- Rural population 6.70 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 12.64 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 7.59 million t (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 117th out of 125 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.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 64 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).
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.