Sweet potatoes — Yield in Madagascar
Madagascar: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 8,630 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Madagascar, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — yield in Madagascar stood at 8,630 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.8% on the previous year and up 11.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Madagascar peaked at 8,630 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 4,120 kg/ha, in 1982.
That places Madagascar 68th out of 125 countries 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,009 kg/ha | 4,833 kg/ha | 6,379 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,037 kg/ha | 4,468 kg/ha | 5,970 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,868 kg/ha | 4,120 kg/ha | 5,298 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,457 kg/ha | 5,031 kg/ha | 5,906 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,231 kg/ha | 4,662 kg/ha | 7,281 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,803 kg/ha | 7,207 kg/ha | 8,282 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,501 kg/ha | 8,354 kg/ha | 8,630 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Madagascar
- 65 Fiji 9,000 kg/ha compare
- 66 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 8,931 kg/ha compare
- 67 Myanmar 8,874 kg/ha compare
- 69 Martinique 8,237 kg/ha compare
- 70 Yemen 8,217 kg/ha compare
- 71 Sierra Leone 8,208 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Madagascar
- Agriculture share gdp 21.7 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 21.7 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.3% (2024)
- Rural population 67.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.7% (2025)
- Rural population 21.97 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 21.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.26 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 399,940 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Madagascar?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Madagascar was 8,630 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Madagascar?
- The highest recorded value was 8,630 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Madagascar?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,120 kg/ha in 1982.
- How does Madagascar rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Madagascar ranks 68th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Madagascar?
- Over the last ten years it is up 11.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Madagascar 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.