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 125 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
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 share gdp 8.74 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 8.74 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2023)
- Rural population 40.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.3% (2025)
- Rural population 1.15 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.99 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 62,998 t (2024)
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 125 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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About this data
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.