Sweet potatoes — Yield in Malawi
Malawi: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 25,355 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Malawi, 2014–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — yield in Malawi is 25,355 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 11 years on record.
The figure is up 3.5% on the previous year and up 25.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Malawi peaked at 25,355 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 20,017 kg/ha, in 2018.
That places Malawi 12th out of 125 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 11 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 20,490 kg/ha | 20,017 kg/ha | 21,950 kg/ha | 6 |
| 2020s | 23,990 kg/ha | 22,800 kg/ha | 25,355 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Malawi
- 9 Ethiopia 28,431 kg/ha compare
- 10 Barbados 27,604 kg/ha compare
- 11 Cook Islands 27,481 kg/ha compare
- 13 Portugal 24,323 kg/ha
- 14 China, Taiwan Province of 23,968 kg/ha compare
- 15 Greece 23,922 kg/ha
More agriculture & rural data for Malawi
- Agriculture share gdp 30.03 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 30.03 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.7% (2024)
- Rural population 82.4% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.2% (2025)
- Rural population 18.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 30.0% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.48 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 1.13 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Malawi?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Malawi was 25,355 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 25,355 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 20,017 kg/ha in 2018.
- How does Malawi rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Malawi ranks 12th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is up 25.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Malawi 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.