Sweet potatoes — Yield in El Salvador
El Salvador: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 5,782 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in El Salvador, 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 El Salvador is 5,782 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in El Salvador peaked at 6,479 kg/ha in 1989 and was at its lowest, 4,889 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places El Salvador 90th out of 125 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 4,998 kg/ha | 4,889 kg/ha | 5,200 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,027 kg/ha | 4,909 kg/ha | 5,254 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,498 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 6,479 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,300 kg/ha | 6,125 kg/ha | 6,471 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,259 kg/ha | 6,120 kg/ha | 6,389 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,873 kg/ha | 5,764 kg/ha | 6,077 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,784 kg/ha | 5,779 kg/ha | 5,791 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for El Salvador
- Agriculture share gdp 4.4 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 4.4 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 24.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.4% (2025)
- Rural population 1.56 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.62 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 20,054 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in El Salvador?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in El Salvador was 5,782 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in El Salvador?
- The highest recorded value was 6,479 kg/ha in 1989.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in El Salvador?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,889 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does El Salvador rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- El Salvador ranks 90th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in El Salvador?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this El Salvador 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.