Sweet potatoes — Yield in Mexico
Mexico: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 20,302 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Mexico, 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 Mexico is 20,302 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 3.9% on the previous year and up 14.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Mexico peaked at 23,728 kg/ha in 2003 and was at its lowest, 6,113 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Mexico 24th 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 | 7,920 kg/ha | 6,113 kg/ha | 9,370 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,852 kg/ha | 9,593 kg/ha | 13,504 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 15,979 kg/ha | 12,213 kg/ha | 20,552 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 18,800 kg/ha | 16,754 kg/ha | 20,960 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 20,661 kg/ha | 18,424 kg/ha | 23,728 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 19,310 kg/ha | 17,517 kg/ha | 20,665 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 20,182 kg/ha | 19,591 kg/ha | 21,133 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Mexico
- Agriculture share gdp 3.88 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 3.88 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 20.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.6% (2025)
- Rural population 26.34 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 71.18 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.67 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Mexico?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Mexico was 20,302 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Mexico?
- The highest recorded value was 23,728 kg/ha in 2003.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Mexico?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,113 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Mexico rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Mexico ranks 24th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Mexico?
- Over the last ten years it is up 14.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Mexico 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.