Sweet potatoes — Yield in Italy
Italy: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 21,892 kg/ha in 2017. ▬ Flat
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Italy, 1961–2017
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2017, sweet potatoes — yield in Italy stood at 21,892 kg/ha.
The figure is up 9.7% on the previous year and up 17.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Italy peaked at 24,258 kg/ha in 1993 and was at its lowest, 8,024 kg/ha, in 1999.
Italy ranks 21st of 125 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 17,352 kg/ha | 15,392 kg/ha | 18,936 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 19,855 kg/ha | 17,455 kg/ha | 22,018 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 20,421 kg/ha | 18,202 kg/ha | 21,012 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 20,557 kg/ha | 8,024 kg/ha | 24,258 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 15,037 kg/ha | 11,366 kg/ha | 20,094 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 20,832 kg/ha | 18,996 kg/ha | 22,775 kg/ha | 8 |
Countries ranked near Italy
More agriculture & rural data for Italy
- Agriculture share gdp 2.07 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 2.07 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.5% (2024)
- Rural population 30.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.3% (2025)
- Rural population 17.86 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 52.70 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 0 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Italy?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Italy was 21,892 kg/ha in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Italy?
- The highest recorded value was 24,258 kg/ha in 1993.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Italy?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,024 kg/ha in 1999.
- How does Italy rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Italy ranks 21st out of 125 countries with data for 2017.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Italy?
- Over the last ten years it is up 17.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Italy 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.