Sweet potatoes — Yield in Gabon
Gabon: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 2,027 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Gabon, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — yield in Gabon stood at 2,027 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.4% on the previous year and up 4.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Gabon peaked at 2,027 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,000 kg/ha, in 1974.
Gabon ranks 116th of 125 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,944 kg/ha | 1,500 kg/ha | 2,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,234 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,397 kg/ha | 1,200 kg/ha | 1,636 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,764 kg/ha | 1,707 kg/ha | 1,846 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,824 kg/ha | 1,792 kg/ha | 1,876 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,949 kg/ha | 1,891 kg/ha | 1,982 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,010 kg/ha | 1,991 kg/ha | 2,027 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Gabon
- 113 Timor-Leste 2,504 kg/ha compare
- 114 New Caledonia 2,444 kg/ha compare
- 115 Haiti 2,181 kg/ha compare
- 117 Ecuador 2,007 kg/ha compare
- 118 Bhutan 1,959 kg/ha compare
- 119 Trinidad and Tobago 1,928 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Gabon
- Agriculture share gdp 6.75 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.75 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.3% (2023)
- Rural population 7.9% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 205,177 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.8% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.45 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 17,629 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Gabon?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Gabon was 2,027 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Gabon?
- The highest recorded value was 2,027 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Gabon?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,000 kg/ha in 1974.
- How does Gabon rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Gabon ranks 116th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Gabon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Gabon 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.