Sweet potatoes — Yield in Myanmar
Myanmar: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 8,874 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Myanmar, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Myanmar recorded 8,874 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.2% on the previous year and down 1.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Myanmar peaked at 9,176 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 3,970 kg/ha, in 1978.
Myanmar ranks 62nd of 112 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Myanmar, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,588 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,626 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1963 | 4,655 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1964 | 4,600 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1965 | 4,930 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 1966 | 4,490 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 1967 | 5,305 kg/ha | +18.1% |
| 1968 | 4,808 kg/ha | -9.4% |
| 1969 | 4,801 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1970 | 5,000 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1971 | 4,942 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1972 | 5,203 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1973 | 5,261 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1974 | 5,314 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1975 | 4,873 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 1976 | 5,116 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1977 | 4,495 kg/ha | -12.1% |
| 1978 | 3,970 kg/ha | -11.7% |
| 1979 | 4,495 kg/ha | +13.2% |
| 1980 | 4,695 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1981 | 4,904 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1982 | 5,278 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1983 | 4,824 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 1984 | 5,063 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1985 | 5,603 kg/ha | +10.7% |
| 1986 | 5,839 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1987 | 5,118 kg/ha | -12.3% |
| 1988 | 5,098 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1989 | 5,118 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1990 | 5,157 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1991 | 5,340 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1992 | 5,380 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1993 | 5,420 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1994 | 5,221 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1995 | 4,762 kg/ha | -8.8% |
| 1996 | 4,463 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 1997 | 4,600 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1998 | 5,000 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 1999 | 5,649 kg/ha | +13.0% |
| 2000 | 5,742 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2001 | 6,702 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 2002 | 6,667 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2003 | 6,667 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 6,429 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2005 | 7,429 kg/ha | +15.6% |
| 2006 | 8,000 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 2007 | 8,143 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2008 | 8,169 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2009 | 8,194 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2010 | 8,257 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2011 | 8,559 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2012 | 8,698 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2013 | 8,830 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2014 | 8,972 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2015 | 9,176 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2016 | 8,896 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2017 | 8,744 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2018 | 8,689 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2019 | 8,694 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 8,733 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2021 | 8,874 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2022 | 8,838 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2023 | 8,856 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 8,874 kg/ha | +0.2% |
Myanmar compared with similar countries
- Myanmar's 8,874 kg/ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 6,839 kg/ha, 1.3× the median. (28 countries reporting)
- Myanmar's 8,874 kg/ha is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 9,403 kg/ha, 94% of the median. (16 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,756 kg/ha | 4,490 kg/ha | 5,305 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,867 kg/ha | 3,970 kg/ha | 5,314 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,154 kg/ha | 4,695 kg/ha | 5,839 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,099 kg/ha | 4,463 kg/ha | 5,649 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,214 kg/ha | 5,742 kg/ha | 8,194 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,752 kg/ha | 8,257 kg/ha | 9,176 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,835 kg/ha | 8,733 kg/ha | 8,874 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Myanmar
- 59 Benin 9,126 kg/ha compare
- 60 Fiji 9,000 kg/ha compare
- 61 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 8,931 kg/ha compare
- 63 Madagascar 8,630 kg/ha compare
- 64 Martinique 8,237 kg/ha compare
- 65 Yemen 8,217 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Myanmar
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.26 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.253 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 376.69 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4495 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0005 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6942 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 25.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 25.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Myanmar?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Myanmar was 8,874 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Myanmar?
- The highest recorded value was 9,176 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Myanmar?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,970 kg/ha in 1978.
- How does Myanmar rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Myanmar ranks 62nd out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Myanmar?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Myanmar 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.