Sweet potatoes — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Least Developed Countries (LDCs): Sweet potatoes — Yield was 10,358 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Least Developed Countries (LDCs) recorded 10,358 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 2.6% on the previous year and up 24.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) peaked at 10,358 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 3,850 kg/ha, in 1996.
Least Developed Countries (LDCs) ranks 21st of 28 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,764 kg/ha | 5,326 kg/ha | 6,794 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,907 kg/ha | 4,259 kg/ha | 5,659 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,059 kg/ha | 4,614 kg/ha | 5,676 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,340 kg/ha | 3,850 kg/ha | 4,603 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,944 kg/ha | 4,338 kg/ha | 5,939 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,844 kg/ha | 5,849 kg/ha | 9,765 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,203 kg/ha | 10,091 kg/ha | 10,358 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was 10,358 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 10,358 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,850 kg/ha in 1996.
- How does Least Developed Countries (LDCs) rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) ranks 21st out of 28 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 24.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 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.