Sweet potatoes — Yield in Niger
Niger: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 19,297 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Niger, 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 Niger is 19,297 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 29.0% on the previous year and down 12.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Niger peaked at 32,816 kg/ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 3,791 kg/ha, in 1981.
That places Niger 25th out of 125 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11,108 kg/ha | 6,952 kg/ha | 15,008 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,318 kg/ha | 5,932 kg/ha | 11,546 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,749 kg/ha | 3,791 kg/ha | 9,519 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 12,577 kg/ha | 8,750 kg/ha | 20,625 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 16,520 kg/ha | 14,203 kg/ha | 21,021 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 22,547 kg/ha | 15,170 kg/ha | 28,444 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 27,295 kg/ha | 19,297 kg/ha | 32,816 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Niger
- Agriculture share gdp 47.59 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 47.59 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2024)
- Rural population 81.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.8% (2025)
- Rural population 22.79 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 47.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 10.30 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 1,083 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Niger?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Niger was 19,297 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Niger?
- The highest recorded value was 32,816 kg/ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Niger?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,791 kg/ha in 1981.
- How does Niger rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Niger ranks 25th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Niger?
- Over the last ten years it is down 12.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Niger 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.