Sweet potatoes — Yield in Kenya
Kenya: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 12,604 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Kenya, 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 Kenya is 12,604 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 2.5% on the previous year and up 0.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Kenya peaked at 17,077 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 5,600 kg/ha, in 1961.
Kenya ranks 39th of 112 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Kenya, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,600 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,882 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1963 | 6,154 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1964 | 6,415 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1965 | 6,667 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1966 | 7,107 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 1967 | 7,143 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1968 | 7,241 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1969 | 7,586 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1970 | 7,667 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1971 | 8,000 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1972 | 8,064 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1973 | 8,387 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1974 | 8,438 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1975 | 8,750 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1976 | 6,921 kg/ha | -20.9% |
| 1977 | 7,176 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1978 | 8,884 kg/ha | +23.8% |
| 1979 | 8,947 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1980 | 9,210 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1981 | 10,000 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1982 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 9,138 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 1984 | 9,333 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1985 | 9,759 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1986 | 9,908 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1987 | 9,873 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1988 | 9,852 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1989 | 9,075 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1990 | 9,915 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 1991 | 10,937 kg/ha | +10.3% |
| 1992 | 6,753 kg/ha | -38.3% |
| 1993 | 9,627 kg/ha | +42.6% |
| 1994 | 10,440 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 1995 | 10,071 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1996 | 7,988 kg/ha | -20.7% |
| 1997 | 11,136 kg/ha | +39.4% |
| 1998 | 8,059 kg/ha | -27.6% |
| 1999 | 10,582 kg/ha | +31.3% |
| 2000 | 8,838 kg/ha | -16.5% |
| 2001 | 9,000 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2002 | 8,500 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 2003 | 10,000 kg/ha | +17.6% |
| 2004 | 9,412 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 2005 | 10,958 kg/ha | +16.4% |
| 2006 | 9,670 kg/ha | -11.8% |
| 2007 | 13,280 kg/ha | +37.3% |
| 2008 | 14,252 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 2009 | 13,290 kg/ha | -6.8% |
| 2010 | 9,974 kg/ha | -24.9% |
| 2011 | 12,269 kg/ha | +23.0% |
| 2012 | 12,835 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 2013 | 12,471 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2014 | 12,505 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2015 | 17,077 kg/ha | +36.6% |
| 2016 | 14,780 kg/ha | -13.5% |
| 2017 | 12,098 kg/ha | -18.1% |
| 2018 | 13,546 kg/ha | +12.0% |
| 2019 | 16,976 kg/ha | +25.3% |
| 2020 | 12,696 kg/ha | -25.2% |
| 2021 | 11,818 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 2022 | 12,240 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2023 | 12,294 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2024 | 12,604 kg/ha | +2.5% |
Kenya compared with similar countries
- Kenya's 12,604 kg/ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 6,839 kg/ha, 1.8× the median. (28 countries reporting)
- Kenya's 12,604 kg/ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 7,417 kg/ha, 1.7× the median. (36 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,644 kg/ha | 5,600 kg/ha | 7,586 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,123 kg/ha | 6,921 kg/ha | 8,947 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,615 kg/ha | 9,075 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,551 kg/ha | 6,753 kg/ha | 11,136 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,720 kg/ha | 8,500 kg/ha | 14,252 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 13,453 kg/ha | 9,974 kg/ha | 17,077 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 12,330 kg/ha | 11,818 kg/ha | 12,696 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Kenya
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 16.52 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2316 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 547.24 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.47 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6779 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 23.2% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 23.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 12.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Kenya?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Kenya was 12,604 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 17,077 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,600 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Kenya rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Kenya ranks 39th out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Kenya 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.