Sweet potatoes — Yield in Maldives
Maldives: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 1,084 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Maldives, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — yield in Maldives stood at 1,084 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 0.4% on the previous year and up 6.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Maldives peaked at 1,655 kg/ha in 1999 and was at its lowest, 200 kg/ha, in 1966.
That places Maldives 112th out of 112 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Maldives, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 233.3 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 233.3 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 233.3 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 233.3 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 233.3 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 200 kg/ha | -14.3% |
| 1967 | 200 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 200 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 200 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 233.3 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 1971 | 225 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1972 | 200 kg/ha | -11.1% |
| 1973 | 225 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 1974 | 228.9 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1975 | 236 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1976 | 227.3 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1977 | 226.1 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1978 | 233.3 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1979 | 220 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1980 | 233.3 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1981 | 220 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1982 | 222.2 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1983 | 227.3 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1984 | 222.2 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1985 | 225.8 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1986 | 222.2 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1987 | 225 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1988 | 223.1 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1989 | 222.2 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1990 | 221.1 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1991 | 226.9 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1992 | 221.4 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1993 | 290.4 kg/ha | +31.2% |
| 1994 | 227.3 kg/ha | -21.7% |
| 1995 | 230.8 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1996 | 224.5 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1997 | 240 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1998 | 240 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 1,655 kg/ha | +589.7% |
| 2000 | 816.3 kg/ha | -50.7% |
| 2001 | 1,000 kg/ha | +22.5% |
| 2002 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 1,008 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2005 | 1,000 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2006 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 800 kg/ha | -20.0% |
| 2010 | 968.7 kg/ha | +21.1% |
| 2011 | 997 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2012 | 928.5 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 2013 | 922.7 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2014 | 1,015 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 2015 | 1,020 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2016 | 1,058 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2017 | 1,086 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2018 | 1,099 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2019 | 1,115 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2020 | 1,119 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2021 | 1,112 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2022 | 1,076 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2023 | 1,080 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2024 | 1,084 kg/ha | +0.4% |
Maldives compared with similar countries
- Maldives's 1,084 kg/ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 9,330 kg/ha, 12% of the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Maldives's 1,084 kg/ha is below the median for South Asia, which is 10,806 kg/ha, 10% of the median. (5 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Yield in Maldives 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | +589.7% | 240 kg/ha | 1,655 kg/ha |
| 2000 | -50.7% | 1,655 kg/ha | 816.3 kg/ha |
| 1993 | +31.2% | 221.4 kg/ha | 290.4 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 218.5 kg/ha | 200 kg/ha | 233.3 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 225.49 kg/ha | 200 kg/ha | 236 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 224.33 kg/ha | 220 kg/ha | 233.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 377.76 kg/ha | 221.1 kg/ha | 1,655 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 962.46 kg/ha | 800 kg/ha | 1,008 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,021 kg/ha | 922.7 kg/ha | 1,115 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,094 kg/ha | 1,076 kg/ha | 1,119 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Maldives
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 30.99 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0459 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 670.93 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.5233 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5749 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 4.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 4.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Maldives?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Maldives was 1,084 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Maldives?
- The highest recorded value was 1,655 kg/ha in 1999.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Maldives?
- The lowest recorded value was 200 kg/ha in 1966.
- How does Maldives rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Maldives ranks 112th out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Maldives?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Maldives 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.