Sweet potatoes — Yield in New Zealand
New Zealand: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 9,807 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Yield in New Zealand, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — yield in New Zealand stood at 9,807 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.3% on the previous year and down 7.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in New Zealand peaked at 25,238 kg/ha in 1995 and was at its lowest, 8,510 kg/ha, in 1979.
New Zealand ranks 59th of 125 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 14,971 kg/ha | 9,118 kg/ha | 18,211 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 14,871 kg/ha | 8,510 kg/ha | 18,191 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 16,465 kg/ha | 15,467 kg/ha | 22,655 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 20,471 kg/ha | 12,843 kg/ha | 25,238 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 13,881 kg/ha | 11,969 kg/ha | 16,908 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,662 kg/ha | 9,724 kg/ha | 11,673 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9,781 kg/ha | 9,696 kg/ha | 9,847 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for New Zealand
- Agriculture share gdp 4.01 (2023)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 4.01 (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 9.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2025)
- Rural population 16.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.3% (2025)
- Rural population 852,066 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.0% (2023)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 10.28 billion current US$ (2023)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 0 t (1998)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in New Zealand?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in New Zealand was 9,807 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 25,238 kg/ha in 1995.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,510 kg/ha in 1979.
- How does New Zealand rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- New Zealand ranks 59th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is down 7.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this New Zealand 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.