Sweet potatoes — Yield in Northern Africa
Northern Africa: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 13,956 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Northern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Northern Africa recorded 13,956 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 2.8% on the previous year and down 47.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Northern Africa peaked at 27,318 kg/ha in 2013 and was at its lowest, 13,396 kg/ha, in 2022.
That places Northern Africa 11th out of 35 regions with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 20,859 kg/ha | 19,472 kg/ha | 22,096 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 21,926 kg/ha | 19,420 kg/ha | 23,700 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 22,500 kg/ha | 21,394 kg/ha | 24,068 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 22,665 kg/ha | 21,379 kg/ha | 24,149 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 22,533 kg/ha | 13,984 kg/ha | 25,584 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 22,758 kg/ha | 17,244 kg/ha | 27,318 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 15,534 kg/ha | 13,396 kg/ha | 18,591 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Northern Africa
More agriculture & rural data for Northern Africa
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 296,996 ha (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 45,744 An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 7,042 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 13.27 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 44,683 kg/ha (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 45,744 An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 45,744 An (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 38,726 An (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production 123.39 t (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 149.18 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Northern Africa?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Northern Africa was 13,956 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Northern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 27,318 kg/ha in 2013.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Northern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 13,396 kg/ha in 2022.
- How does Northern Africa rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Northern Africa ranks 11th out of 35 regions with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Northern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 47.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Northern Africa 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.