Sweet potatoes — Yield in Indonesia
Indonesia: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 21,557 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Indonesia, 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 Indonesia is 21,557 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 1.1% on the previous year and up 41.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Indonesia peaked at 22,857 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 5,854 kg/ha, in 1968.
That places Indonesia 23rd out of 112 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Indonesia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,731 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,764 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1963 | 6,343 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1964 | 6,384 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1965 | 6,373 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1966 | 6,158 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1967 | 5,954 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1968 | 5,854 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1969 | 6,118 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1970 | 6,084 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1971 | 6,197 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1972 | 6,117 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1973 | 6,302 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1974 | 7,477 kg/ha | +18.6% |
| 1975 | 7,824 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1976 | 7,910 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1977 | 7,542 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1978 | 6,930 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1979 | 7,649 kg/ha | +10.4% |
| 1980 | 7,530 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1981 | 7,616 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1982 | 7,629 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1983 | 7,899 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1984 | 8,173 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1985 | 8,440 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1986 | 8,261 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1987 | 8,787 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1988 | 8,710 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1989 | 9,261 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1990 | 9,445 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1991 | 9,515 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1992 | 9,448 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1993 | 9,318 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1994 | 9,358 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1995 | 9,494 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1996 | 11,355 kg/ha | +19.6% |
| 1997 | 9,453 kg/ha | -16.7% |
| 1998 | 9,575 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1999 | 9,670 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2000 | 9,421 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 2001 | 9,663 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2002 | 9,994 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2003 | 10,086 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2004 | 10,305 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2005 | 10,413 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2006 | 10,527 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2007 | 10,664 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2008 | 10,774 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2009 | 11,192 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2010 | 11,327 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2011 | 12,329 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 2012 | 13,929 kg/ha | +13.0% |
| 2013 | 14,746 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 2014 | 15,200 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2015 | 16,053 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2016 | 17,555 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 2017 | 18,020 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2018 | 19,915 kg/ha | +10.5% |
| 2019 | 20,388 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2020 | 21,166 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2021 | 22,329 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 2022 | 22,857 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2023 | 21,315 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 2024 | 21,557 kg/ha | +1.1% |
Indonesia compared with similar countries
- Indonesia's 21,557 kg/ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 9,330 kg/ha, 2.3× the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Indonesia's 21,557 kg/ha is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 9,403 kg/ha, 2.3× the median. (16 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,298 kg/ha | 5,854 kg/ha | 6,764 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,003 kg/ha | 6,084 kg/ha | 7,910 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 8,231 kg/ha | 7,530 kg/ha | 9,261 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,663 kg/ha | 9,318 kg/ha | 11,355 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,304 kg/ha | 9,421 kg/ha | 11,192 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 15,946 kg/ha | 11,327 kg/ha | 20,388 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 21,845 kg/ha | 21,166 kg/ha | 22,857 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Indonesia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 7.56 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.131 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 662.79 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.7808 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4061 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 13.1% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 13.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Indonesia?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Indonesia was 21,557 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Indonesia?
- The highest recorded value was 22,857 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Indonesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,854 kg/ha in 1968.
- How does Indonesia rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Indonesia ranks 23rd out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Indonesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 41.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Indonesia 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.