Sweet potatoes — Yield in India
India: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 11,675 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in India, 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 India is 11,675 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.4% on the previous year and up 13.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in India peaked at 11,718 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 5,536 kg/ha, in 1966.
That places India 48th out of 125 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,862 kg/ha | 5,536 kg/ha | 8,454 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,332 kg/ha | 6,641 kg/ha | 8,403 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,647 kg/ha | 6,337 kg/ha | 8,469 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,356 kg/ha | 7,966 kg/ha | 8,691 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,871 kg/ha | 8,569 kg/ha | 9,742 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,496 kg/ha | 9,207 kg/ha | 11,540 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,120 kg/ha | 10,565 kg/ha | 11,718 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near India
More agriculture & rural data for India
- Agriculture share gdp 16.23 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.23 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.5% (2024)
- Rural population 64.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.4% (2025)
- Rural population 941.42 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.2% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 642.24 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 37.61 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in India?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in India was 11,675 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in India?
- The highest recorded value was 11,718 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in India?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,536 kg/ha in 1966.
- How does India rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- India ranks 48th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in India?
- Over the last ten years it is up 13.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this India 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.