Sweet potatoes — Yield in Mauritius
Mauritius: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 15,851 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Mauritius, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Mauritius recorded 15,851 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 18.2% on the previous year and up 19.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Mauritius peaked at 19,376 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 4,286 kg/ha, in 1983.
Mauritius ranks 32nd of 125 countries on this measure, 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 | 11,870 kg/ha | 8,072 kg/ha | 14,105 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 13,857 kg/ha | 11,722 kg/ha | 18,714 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,696 kg/ha | 4,286 kg/ha | 17,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 11,786 kg/ha | 7,556 kg/ha | 15,048 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,827 kg/ha | 7,034 kg/ha | 13,562 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 12,913 kg/ha | 10,350 kg/ha | 17,477 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 15,167 kg/ha | 11,951 kg/ha | 19,376 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Mauritius
- Agriculture share gdp 4.62 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 4.62 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.4% (2024)
- Rural population 61.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.2% (2025)
- Rural population 758,222 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 745.90 million current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 10,843 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Mauritius?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Mauritius was 15,851 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Mauritius?
- The highest recorded value was 19,376 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Mauritius?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,286 kg/ha in 1983.
- How does Mauritius rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Mauritius ranks 32nd out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Mauritius?
- Over the last ten years it is up 19.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Mauritius 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.