Sweet potatoes — Yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs): Sweet potatoes — Yield was 10,406 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) recorded 10,406 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.8% on the previous year and up 21.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) peaked at 10,406 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 4,085 kg/ha, in 1996.
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) ranks 19th of 28 groups on this measure, 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 | 5,781 kg/ha | 5,409 kg/ha | 6,574 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,047 kg/ha | 4,498 kg/ha | 5,822 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,313 kg/ha | 4,773 kg/ha | 5,866 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,582 kg/ha | 4,085 kg/ha | 4,989 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,323 kg/ha | 4,724 kg/ha | 6,381 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,123 kg/ha | 6,133 kg/ha | 10,033 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,262 kg/ha | 10,121 kg/ha | 10,406 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) was 10,406 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 10,406 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,085 kg/ha in 1996.
- How does Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) ranks 19th out of 28 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 21.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 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.