Sweet potatoes — Yield in Ghana
Ghana: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 1,815 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Ghana, 1996–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — yield in Ghana is 1,815 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 0.2% on the previous year and down 1.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Ghana peaked at 1,904 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 1,359 kg/ha, in 1997.
That places Ghana 121st out of 125 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 29 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1,366 kg/ha | 1,359 kg/ha | 1,385 kg/ha | 4 |
| 2000s | 1,464 kg/ha | 1,387 kg/ha | 1,632 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,823 kg/ha | 1,690 kg/ha | 1,904 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,812 kg/ha | 1,799 kg/ha | 1,818 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Ghana
- 118 Bhutan 1,959 kg/ha compare
- 119 Trinidad and Tobago 1,928 kg/ha compare
- 120 Eswatini 1,874 kg/ha compare
- 122 Mauritania 1,811 kg/ha compare
- 123 Côte d'Ivoire 1,748 kg/ha compare
- 124 Singapore 1,700 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Ghana
- Agriculture share gdp 21.28 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 21.28 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2023)
- Rural population 41.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.5% (2025)
- Rural population 14.40 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 21.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 24.30 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 135,063 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Ghana?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Ghana was 1,815 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Ghana?
- The highest recorded value was 1,904 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Ghana?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,359 kg/ha in 1997.
- How does Ghana rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Ghana ranks 121st out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Ghana?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ghana 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.