Sweet potatoes — Yield in Egypt
Egypt: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 36,993 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Egypt, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Egypt recorded 36,993 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.8% on the previous year and up 9.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Egypt peaked at 38,059 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 11,970 kg/ha, in 2006.
Egypt ranks 5th of 125 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 20,286 kg/ha | 19,031 kg/ha | 21,558 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 21,005 kg/ha | 17,852 kg/ha | 23,662 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 24,616 kg/ha | 22,733 kg/ha | 26,190 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 24,741 kg/ha | 22,489 kg/ha | 27,046 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 25,333 kg/ha | 11,970 kg/ha | 29,817 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 32,933 kg/ha | 30,608 kg/ha | 34,214 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 34,488 kg/ha | 27,657 kg/ha | 38,059 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Egypt
More agriculture & rural data for Egypt
- Agriculture share gdp 16.55 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.55 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.1% (2024)
- Rural population 57.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.4% (2025)
- Rural population 67.58 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 60.46 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 1.25 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Egypt?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Egypt was 36,993 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Egypt?
- The highest recorded value was 38,059 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Egypt?
- The lowest recorded value was 11,970 kg/ha in 2006.
- How does Egypt rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Egypt ranks 5th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Egypt?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Egypt 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.