Sweet potatoes — Yield in Guinea
Guinea: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 4,358 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Guinea, 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 Guinea is 4,358 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 14.4% on the previous year and down 48.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Guinea peaked at 8,700 kg/ha in 1962 and was at its lowest, 3,108 kg/ha, in 2010.
Guinea ranks 93rd of 112 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Guinea, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 8,300 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 8,700 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1963 | 7,800 kg/ha | -10.3% |
| 1964 | 8,400 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1965 | 8,500 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1966 | 8,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 8,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 8,000 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 1969 | 8,200 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1970 | 8,200 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 8,200 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 7,895 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1973 | 7,500 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1974 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 7,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 6,990 kg/ha | -6.8% |
| 1981 | 6,984 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1982 | 6,997 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1983 | 6,944 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1984 | 5,833 kg/ha | -16.0% |
| 1985 | 5,714 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1986 | 5,625 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1987 | 5,263 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 1988 | 5,245 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1989 | 5,095 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1990 | 4,949 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1991 | 4,808 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1992 | 4,670 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1993 | 4,537 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1994 | 4,407 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1995 | 4,281 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1996 | 4,159 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1997 | 4,040 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1998 | 3,924 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1999 | 3,812 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2000 | 3,703 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2001 | 3,698 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2002 | 3,720 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2003 | 3,623 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 2004 | 3,628 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2005 | 3,659 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2006 | 3,713 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2007 | 3,698 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2008 | 3,654 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2009 | 3,288 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 2010 | 3,108 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 2011 | 3,468 kg/ha | +11.6% |
| 2012 | 3,477 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2013 | 3,458 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2014 | 8,534 kg/ha | +146.8% |
| 2015 | 8,420 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2016 | 6,506 kg/ha | -22.7% |
| 2017 | 5,528 kg/ha | -15.0% |
| 2018 | 4,966 kg/ha | -10.2% |
| 2019 | 5,200 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2020 | 5,250 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2021 | 5,200 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2022 | 5,250 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2023 | 5,093 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2024 | 4,358 kg/ha | -14.4% |
Guinea compared with similar countries
- Guinea's 4,358 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 6,839 kg/ha, 64% of the median. (28 countries reporting)
- Guinea's 4,358 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 7,417 kg/ha, 59% of the median. (36 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Yield in Guinea changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | +146.8% | 3,458 kg/ha | 8,534 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,322 kg/ha | 7,800 kg/ha | 8,700 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,679 kg/ha | 7,500 kg/ha | 8,200 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,069 kg/ha | 5,095 kg/ha | 6,997 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,359 kg/ha | 3,812 kg/ha | 4,949 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,638 kg/ha | 3,288 kg/ha | 3,720 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,266 kg/ha | 3,108 kg/ha | 8,534 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,030 kg/ha | 4,358 kg/ha | 5,250 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Guinea
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 14.56 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3129 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 587.44 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.6 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6148 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 31.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 31.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.8% (2016)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2016)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Guinea?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Guinea was 4,358 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Guinea?
- The highest recorded value was 8,700 kg/ha in 1962.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Guinea?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,108 kg/ha in 2010.
- How does Guinea rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Guinea ranks 93rd out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Guinea?
- Over the last ten years it is down 48.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Guinea 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.