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.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Melanesia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,301 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,310 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1963 | 4,334 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1964 | 4,308 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1965 | 4,346 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1966 | 4,536 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1967 | 4,538 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 4,430 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1969 | 4,444 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1970 | 4,560 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1971 | 4,636 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1972 | 4,767 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1973 | 4,753 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1974 | 4,891 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1975 | 4,802 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1976 | 4,826 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1977 | 4,814 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1978 | 4,812 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1979 | 4,803 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1980 | 4,825 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1981 | 4,838 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1982 | 4,848 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1983 | 5,005 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1984 | 5,044 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1985 | 5,119 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1986 | 5,052 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1987 | 5,117 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1988 | 5,379 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1989 | 4,914 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 1990 | 4,573 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 1991 | 5,084 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 1992 | 5,140 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1993 | 5,212 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1994 | 4,924 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 1995 | 5,051 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1996 | 4,973 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1997 | 5,043 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1998 | 5,107 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1999 | 5,190 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2000 | 5,204 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2001 | 5,315 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2002 | 5,286 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2003 | 5,385 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2004 | 5,478 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2005 | 5,431 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2006 | 5,460 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2007 | 5,445 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2008 | 5,346 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2009 | 5,457 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2010 | 5,481 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2011 | 5,523 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2012 | 5,526 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2013 | 5,565 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2014 | 5,562 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2015 | 5,570 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 5,576 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 5,582 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 5,590 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 5,604 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 5,606 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 5,597 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2022 | 5,626 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2023 | 5,631 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 5,636 kg/ha | +0.1% |
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
- 7 Botswana 29,658 kg/ha compare
- 7 Polynesia 10,197 kg/ha compare
- 8 Spain 29,045 kg/ha compare
- 9 Ethiopia 28,431 kg/ha compare
- 9 United Republic of Tanzania 6,437 kg/ha compare
- 10 Barbados 27,604 kg/ha compare
- 10 Cabo Verde 13,957 kg/ha compare
- 11 Cook Islands 27,481 kg/ha compare
- 12 Malawi 25,355 kg/ha compare
- 12 Micronesia (Federated States of) 5,461 kg/ha compare
- 12 Micronesia 5,461 kg/ha compare
- 13 Portugal 24,323 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Melanesia
- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) 0.8374 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -12.17 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 0.3606 % change on previous year (2024)
- Non Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 2.17 % change on previous year (2024)
- Milk, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) -1.73 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat indigenous, total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.66 % change on previous year (2024)
- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 1.62 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 0.6376 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 0.7614 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 0.0116 % change on previous year (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 10th out of 16 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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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.