Sweet potatoes — Yield in Jamaica
Jamaica: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 17,130 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Jamaica, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — yield in Jamaica stood at 17,130 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 7.9% on the previous year and up 2.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Jamaica peaked at 18,253 kg/ha in 2011 and was at its lowest, 6,294 kg/ha, in 1968.
Jamaica ranks 28th of 112 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Jamaica, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 9,260 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 8,332 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 1963 | 8,374 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1964 | 8,288 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1965 | 8,268 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1966 | 7,398 kg/ha | -10.5% |
| 1967 | 7,346 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1968 | 6,294 kg/ha | -14.3% |
| 1969 | 8,185 kg/ha | +30.1% |
| 1970 | 7,450 kg/ha | -9.0% |
| 1971 | 8,003 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 1972 | 7,660 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1973 | 7,528 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1974 | 8,173 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1975 | 7,366 kg/ha | -9.9% |
| 1976 | 8,294 kg/ha | +12.6% |
| 1977 | 8,294 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 8,233 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1979 | 8,956 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1980 | 9,181 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1981 | 8,936 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1982 | 8,535 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1983 | 10,216 kg/ha | +19.7% |
| 1984 | 11,145 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 1985 | 11,161 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1986 | 11,052 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1987 | 11,156 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1988 | 10,695 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1989 | 11,393 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1990 | 11,254 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1991 | 10,864 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1992 | 13,411 kg/ha | +23.4% |
| 1993 | 15,328 kg/ha | +14.3% |
| 1994 | 15,051 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1995 | 15,349 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1996 | 16,445 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1997 | 15,238 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1998 | 15,979 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1999 | 16,183 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2000 | 16,336 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2001 | 16,492 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2002 | 16,165 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2003 | 16,854 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2004 | 16,096 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2005 | 16,441 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2006 | 16,616 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2007 | 16,532 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2008 | 16,828 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2009 | 17,080 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2010 | 16,264 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 2011 | 18,253 kg/ha | +12.2% |
| 2012 | 17,082 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 2013 | 17,268 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2014 | 16,672 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2015 | 16,854 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2016 | 17,444 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2017 | 17,226 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2018 | 18,097 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2019 | 17,585 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2020 | 17,050 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2021 | 17,378 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2022 | 17,380 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 15,882 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 2024 | 17,130 kg/ha | +7.9% |
Jamaica compared with similar countries
- Jamaica's 17,130 kg/ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 9,330 kg/ha, 1.8× the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Jamaica's 17,130 kg/ha is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 9,065 kg/ha, 1.9× the median. (30 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Yield in Jamaica 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | +30.1% | 6,294 kg/ha | 8,185 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,971 kg/ha | 6,294 kg/ha | 9,260 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,996 kg/ha | 7,366 kg/ha | 8,956 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,347 kg/ha | 8,535 kg/ha | 11,393 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 14,510 kg/ha | 10,864 kg/ha | 16,445 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 16,544 kg/ha | 16,096 kg/ha | 17,080 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 17,274 kg/ha | 16,264 kg/ha | 18,253 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 16,964 kg/ha | 15,882 kg/ha | 17,380 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Jamaica
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.16 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0874 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 699.7 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.28 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4057 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 8.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 8.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Jamaica?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Jamaica was 17,130 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Jamaica?
- The highest recorded value was 18,253 kg/ha in 2011.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Jamaica?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,294 kg/ha in 1968.
- How does Jamaica rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Jamaica ranks 28th out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Jamaica?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Jamaica 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.