Sweet potatoes — Yield in Melanesia
Melanesia: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 5,636 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — yield in Melanesia is 5,636 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Melanesia peaked at 5,636 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 4,301 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Melanesia 91st 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 | 4,394 kg/ha | 4,301 kg/ha | 4,538 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,766 kg/ha | 4,560 kg/ha | 4,891 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,014 kg/ha | 4,825 kg/ha | 5,379 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,030 kg/ha | 4,573 kg/ha | 5,212 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,381 kg/ha | 5,204 kg/ha | 5,478 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,558 kg/ha | 5,481 kg/ha | 5,604 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,619 kg/ha | 5,597 kg/ha | 5,636 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
- 88 Dominica 6,042 kg/ha compare
- 89 Chad 5,971 kg/ha compare
- 90 El Salvador 5,782 kg/ha compare
- 92 Micronesia (Federated States of) 5,461 kg/ha compare
- 92 Micronesia 5,461 kg/ha compare
- 94 Equatorial Guinea 5,347 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Melanesia
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 1.31 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 41 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 89,605 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 374.22 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 504 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 4,250 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 8,430 kg/ha (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 79,382 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Melanesia?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Melanesia was 5,636 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 5,636 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,301 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Melanesia rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Melanesia ranks 91st out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Melanesia 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.