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 22nd of 112 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Italy, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 15,392 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 16,801 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 1963 | 17,203 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1964 | 18,426 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1965 | 18,936 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1966 | 16,208 kg/ha | -14.4% |
| 1967 | 17,808 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 1968 | 17,463 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1969 | 17,933 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1970 | 17,455 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1971 | 18,259 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1972 | 19,654 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1973 | 19,083 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1974 | 20,233 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1975 | 19,360 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1976 | 22,018 kg/ha | +13.7% |
| 1977 | 21,170 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1978 | 20,916 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1979 | 20,398 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1980 | 20,284 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1981 | 20,300 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1982 | 18,202 kg/ha | -10.3% |
| 1983 | 20,588 kg/ha | +13.1% |
| 1984 | 20,879 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1985 | 21,012 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1986 | 20,820 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1987 | 20,926 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1988 | 20,644 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1989 | 20,559 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1990 | 21,483 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1991 | 21,490 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 23,517 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 1993 | 24,258 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1994 | 23,771 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1995 | 23,908 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1996 | 22,167 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1997 | 19,806 kg/ha | -10.7% |
| 1998 | 17,143 kg/ha | -13.4% |
| 1999 | 8,024 kg/ha | -53.2% |
| 2000 | 11,435 kg/ha | +42.5% |
| 2001 | 11,501 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2002 | 11,366 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2003 | 15,123 kg/ha | +33.1% |
| 2004 | 15,990 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 2005 | 14,152 kg/ha | -11.5% |
| 2006 | 14,445 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2007 | 18,560 kg/ha | +28.5% |
| 2008 | 20,094 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 2009 | 17,702 kg/ha | -11.9% |
| 2010 | 18,996 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 2011 | 20,711 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 2012 | 19,524 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 2013 | 22,775 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 2014 | 21,478 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 2015 | 21,319 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2016 | 19,961 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 2017 | 21,892 kg/ha | +9.7% |
Italy compared with similar countries
- Italy's 21,892 kg/ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 10,301 kg/ha, 2.1× the median. (24 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Yield in Italy 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | -53.2% | 17,143 kg/ha | 8,024 kg/ha |
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, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.12 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0207 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 894.54 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.3131 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3032 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 2.1% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 2.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.5% (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 22nd out of 112 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.