Sweet potatoes — Yield in Mozambique
Mozambique: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 5,000 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Mozambique, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Mozambique recorded 5,000 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 4.0% on the previous year and down 28.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Mozambique peaked at 16,457 kg/ha in 2012 and was at its lowest, 4,217 kg/ha, in 1975.
Mozambique ranks 99th of 125 countries on this measure, in the bottom 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 | 4,880 kg/ha | 4,667 kg/ha | 5,161 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,821 kg/ha | 4,217 kg/ha | 5,294 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,753 kg/ha | 5,294 kg/ha | 6,471 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,608 kg/ha | 5,854 kg/ha | 7,273 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,370 kg/ha | 4,729 kg/ha | 9,890 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,895 kg/ha | 5,176 kg/ha | 16,457 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,854 kg/ha | 4,805 kg/ha | 7,363 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Mozambique
- 96 Saint Kitts and Nevis 5,105 kg/ha compare
- 97 Caribbean 5,042 kg/ha compare
- 98 Democratic Republic of the Congo 5,012 kg/ha compare
- 100 Guinea-Bissau 4,918 kg/ha compare
- 101 Antigua and Barbuda 4,829 kg/ha compare
- 102 Comoros 4,756 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Mozambique
- Agriculture share gdp 25.57 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 25.57 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
- Rural population 62.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.6% (2025)
- Rural population 22.37 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 25.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.71 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 387,740 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Mozambique?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Mozambique was 5,000 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Mozambique?
- The highest recorded value was 16,457 kg/ha in 2012.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Mozambique?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,217 kg/ha in 1975.
- How does Mozambique rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Mozambique ranks 99th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Mozambique?
- Over the last ten years it is down 28.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Mozambique 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.