Sweet potatoes — Yield in Northern America
Northern America: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 18,662 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Northern America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — yield in Northern America stood at 18,662 kg/ha.
The figure is down 16.2% on the previous year and down 23.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Northern America peaked at 25,080 kg/ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 8,822 kg/ha, in 1961.
Northern America ranks 7th of 28 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,119 kg/ha | 8,822 kg/ha | 11,564 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 12,425 kg/ha | 11,445 kg/ha | 13,121 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 14,159 kg/ha | 12,012 kg/ha | 15,804 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 16,807 kg/ha | 15,453 kg/ha | 18,197 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 19,536 kg/ha | 16,292 kg/ha | 22,520 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 23,380 kg/ha | 21,250 kg/ha | 25,080 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 21,274 kg/ha | 18,662 kg/ha | 22,262 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Northern America
More agriculture & rural data for Northern America
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- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 175,300 t (2024)
- Bananas — Production 3,561 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 334 ha (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 14.89 million t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production 968,025 t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 151.17 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 3.56 million t (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 88.89 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 151.17 million An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Northern America?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Northern America was 18,662 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Northern America?
- The highest recorded value was 25,080 kg/ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Northern America?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,822 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Northern America rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Northern America ranks 7th out of 28 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Northern America?
- Over the last ten years it is down 23.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Northern America 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.