Sweet potatoes — Yield in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)
Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs): Sweet potatoes — Yield was 14,091 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — yield in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) stood at 14,091 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 8.5% on the previous year and up 27.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) peaked at 14,091 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 3,297 kg/ha, in 1972.
That places Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 9th out of 25 groups with data for 2024, putting it 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 Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs), year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,174 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,207 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1963 | 4,709 kg/ha | -9.6% |
| 1964 | 4,334 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1965 | 4,400 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1966 | 4,900 kg/ha | +11.4% |
| 1967 | 6,445 kg/ha | +31.5% |
| 1968 | 6,192 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1969 | 4,131 kg/ha | -33.3% |
| 1970 | 4,337 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1971 | 3,753 kg/ha | -13.5% |
| 1972 | 3,297 kg/ha | -12.1% |
| 1973 | 4,028 kg/ha | +22.2% |
| 1974 | 4,400 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 1975 | 4,489 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1976 | 4,517 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1977 | 4,653 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1978 | 4,774 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1979 | 6,062 kg/ha | +27.0% |
| 1980 | 6,161 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1981 | 5,178 kg/ha | -15.9% |
| 1982 | 5,422 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1983 | 5,137 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 1984 | 5,193 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1985 | 5,642 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 1986 | 5,478 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1987 | 5,342 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1988 | 5,185 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1989 | 4,798 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 1990 | 4,768 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1991 | 4,841 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1992 | 4,845 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1993 | 4,887 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1994 | 4,942 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1995 | 4,855 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1996 | 3,946 kg/ha | -18.7% |
| 1997 | 4,303 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 1998 | 4,443 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1999 | 4,788 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 2000 | 5,004 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2001 | 5,021 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2002 | 5,394 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 2003 | 5,339 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2004 | 5,322 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2005 | 5,362 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2006 | 5,454 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2007 | 5,665 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2008 | 5,566 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2009 | 5,598 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2010 | 6,396 kg/ha | +14.3% |
| 2011 | 6,736 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2012 | 7,411 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 2013 | 8,281 kg/ha | +11.7% |
| 2014 | 11,023 kg/ha | +33.1% |
| 2015 | 11,237 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2016 | 10,700 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 2017 | 10,808 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2018 | 11,096 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2019 | 12,839 kg/ha | +15.7% |
| 2020 | 13,039 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2021 | 12,842 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2022 | 12,598 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2023 | 12,990 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2024 | 14,091 kg/ha | +8.5% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Yield in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 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 | -33.3% | 6,192 kg/ha | 4,131 kg/ha |
| 2014 | +33.1% | 8,281 kg/ha | 11,023 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,055 kg/ha | 4,131 kg/ha | 6,445 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,431 kg/ha | 3,297 kg/ha | 6,062 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,354 kg/ha | 4,798 kg/ha | 6,161 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,662 kg/ha | 3,946 kg/ha | 4,942 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,372 kg/ha | 5,004 kg/ha | 5,665 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,653 kg/ha | 6,396 kg/ha | 12,839 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 13,112 kg/ha | 12,598 kg/ha | 14,091 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)
- 6 Australia and New Zealand 30,206 kg/ha compare
- 7 Botswana 29,658 kg/ha compare
- 7 Polynesia 10,197 kg/ha compare
- 8 Spain 29,045 kg/ha compare
- 9 Ethiopia 28,431 kg/ha compare
- 9 United Republic of Tanzania 6,437 kg/ha compare
- 10 Barbados 27,604 kg/ha compare
- 10 Cabo Verde 13,957 kg/ha compare
- 10 Melanesia 5,636 kg/ha compare
- 11 Cook Islands 27,481 kg/ha compare
- 12 Malawi 25,355 kg/ha compare
- 12 Micronesia (Federated States of) 5,461 kg/ha compare
- 12 Micronesia 5,461 kg/ha compare
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- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 2.66 % change on previous year (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) was 14,091 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 14,091 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,297 kg/ha in 1972.
- How does Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) ranks 9th out of 25 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 27.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 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.