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 109th out of 112 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.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Ghana, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 1,360 kg/ha | — |
| 1997 | 1,359 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1998 | 1,362 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1999 | 1,385 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2000 | 1,396 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2001 | 1,408 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2002 | 1,408 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 1,415 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2004 | 1,425 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2005 | 1,387 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2006 | 1,475 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 2007 | 1,523 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2008 | 1,575 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2009 | 1,632 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2010 | 1,690 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2011 | 1,769 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2012 | 1,824 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2013 | 1,824 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 1,850 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2015 | 1,904 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2016 | 1,844 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2017 | 1,872 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2018 | 1,808 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2019 | 1,841 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2020 | 1,799 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2021 | 1,816 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2022 | 1,818 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 1,811 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2024 | 1,815 kg/ha | +0.2% |
Ghana compared with similar countries
- Ghana's 1,815 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 6,839 kg/ha, 27% of the median. (28 countries reporting)
- Ghana's 1,815 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 7,417 kg/ha, 24% of the median. (36 countries reporting)
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
More agriculture & rural data for Ghana
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 41.79 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2128 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 692.99 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4821 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4108 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 21.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 21.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2023)
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 109th out of 112 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.