Sweet potatoes — Yield in Haiti
Haiti: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 2,181 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Haiti, 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 Haiti is 2,181 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 12.8% on the previous year and down 63.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Haiti peaked at 9,094 kg/ha in 2013 and was at its lowest, 1,750 kg/ha, in 2018.
That places Haiti 103rd out of 112 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Haiti, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,217 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,206 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1963 | 5,195 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1964 | 5,250 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1965 | 5,238 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1966 | 5,227 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1967 | 5,217 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1968 | 5,200 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1969 | 5,208 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1970 | 5,200 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1971 | 5,192 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1972 | 5,208 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1973 | 5,192 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1974 | 5,273 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1975 | 5,170 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1976 | 5,246 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1977 | 5,500 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1978 | 5,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 4,235 kg/ha | -23.0% |
| 1980 | 4,471 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1981 | 4,406 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1982 | 4,815 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 1983 | 4,943 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1984 | 5,000 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1985 | 3,556 kg/ha | -28.9% |
| 1986 | 4,000 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 1987 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 3,514 kg/ha | -12.2% |
| 1989 | 3,529 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1990 | 3,492 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1991 | 3,030 kg/ha | -13.2% |
| 1992 | 3,103 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1993 | 3,115 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1994 | 3,083 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1995 | 3,054 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1996 | 3,000 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1997 | 3,019 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1998 | 2,961 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1999 | 2,966 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2000 | 3,000 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2001 | 3,026 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2002 | 3,017 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2003 | 3,240 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 2004 | 3,296 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2005 | 3,003 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 2006 | 3,466 kg/ha | +15.4% |
| 2007 | 3,001 kg/ha | -13.4% |
| 2008 | 3,003 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 3,922 kg/ha | +30.6% |
| 2010 | 4,594 kg/ha | +17.1% |
| 2011 | 5,132 kg/ha | +11.7% |
| 2012 | 5,700 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 2013 | 9,094 kg/ha | +59.5% |
| 2014 | 5,964 kg/ha | -34.4% |
| 2015 | 4,567 kg/ha | -23.4% |
| 2016 | 2,311 kg/ha | -49.4% |
| 2017 | 2,295 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2018 | 1,750 kg/ha | -23.8% |
| 2019 | 2,764 kg/ha | +58.0% |
| 2020 | 3,391 kg/ha | +22.7% |
| 2021 | 3,025 kg/ha | -10.8% |
| 2022 | 2,764 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 2023 | 2,500 kg/ha | -9.6% |
| 2024 | 2,181 kg/ha | -12.8% |
Haiti compared with similar countries
- Haiti's 2,181 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 6,839 kg/ha, 32% of the median. (28 countries reporting)
- Haiti's 2,181 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 9,065 kg/ha, 24% of the median. (30 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Yield in Haiti 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | +59.5% | 5,700 kg/ha | 9,094 kg/ha |
| 2019 | +58.0% | 1,750 kg/ha | 2,764 kg/ha |
| 2016 | -49.4% | 4,567 kg/ha | 2,311 kg/ha |
| 2014 | -34.4% | 9,094 kg/ha | 5,964 kg/ha |
| 2009 | +30.6% | 3,003 kg/ha | 3,922 kg/ha |
| 1985 | -28.9% | 5,000 kg/ha | 3,556 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,218 kg/ha | 5,195 kg/ha | 5,250 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,172 kg/ha | 4,235 kg/ha | 5,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,223 kg/ha | 3,514 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,082 kg/ha | 2,961 kg/ha | 3,492 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,197 kg/ha | 3,000 kg/ha | 3,922 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,417 kg/ha | 1,750 kg/ha | 9,094 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,772 kg/ha | 2,181 kg/ha | 3,391 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Haiti
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 26.66 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1581 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 425.88 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.1649 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4439 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 15.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 15.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.2% (2016)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2016)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Haiti?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Haiti was 2,181 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Haiti?
- The highest recorded value was 9,094 kg/ha in 2013.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Haiti?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,750 kg/ha in 2018.
- How does Haiti rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Haiti ranks 103rd out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Haiti?
- Over the last ten years it is down 63.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Haiti 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.