Sweet potatoes — Yield in Malaysia
Malaysia: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 16,322 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Malaysia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — yield in Malaysia stood at 16,322 kg/ha.
The figure is down 17.8% on the previous year and down 4.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Malaysia peaked at 21,518 kg/ha in 2012 and was at its lowest, 8,982 kg/ha, in 1981.
That places Malaysia 29th out of 125 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11,941 kg/ha | 11,364 kg/ha | 12,189 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,843 kg/ha | 11,364 kg/ha | 12,146 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,489 kg/ha | 8,982 kg/ha | 11,372 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 11,012 kg/ha | 10,870 kg/ha | 11,200 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 12,432 kg/ha | 10,309 kg/ha | 16,275 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 16,491 kg/ha | 10,653 kg/ha | 21,518 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 17,473 kg/ha | 16,322 kg/ha | 19,859 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Malaysia
More agriculture & rural data for Malaysia
- Agriculture share gdp 8.22 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 8.22 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2025)
- Rural population 22.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 8.13 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.2% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 38.79 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 335,444 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Malaysia?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Malaysia was 16,322 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Malaysia?
- The highest recorded value was 21,518 kg/ha in 2012.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Malaysia?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,982 kg/ha in 1981.
- How does Malaysia rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Malaysia ranks 29th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Malaysia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 4.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Malaysia 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.