Sweet potatoes — Yield in Pakistan
Pakistan: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 3,934 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Pakistan, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Pakistan recorded 3,934 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of down 60.9% on the previous year and down 53.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Pakistan peaked at 16,379 kg/ha in 1979 and was at its lowest, 3,934 kg/ha, in 2024.
That places Pakistan 94th out of 112 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Pakistan, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 10,769 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 10,714 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1963 | 10,667 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1964 | 11,250 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1965 | 11,250 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 11,176 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1967 | 11,176 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 11,111 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1969 | 11,667 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1970 | 11,579 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1971 | 12,105 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1972 | 12,000 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1973 | 13,000 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1974 | 14,000 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1975 | 14,085 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1976 | 14,129 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1977 | 15,462 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 1978 | 15,746 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1979 | 16,379 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1980 | 14,612 kg/ha | -10.8% |
| 1981 | 14,142 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1982 | 14,679 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1983 | 16,021 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 1984 | 15,169 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 1985 | 15,025 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1986 | 14,091 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1987 | 11,536 kg/ha | -18.1% |
| 1988 | 11,463 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1989 | 10,302 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 1990 | 9,214 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 1991 | 10,119 kg/ha | +9.8% |
| 1992 | 10,437 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1993 | 9,817 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 1994 | 9,915 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1995 | 10,069 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1996 | 10,518 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1997 | 10,472 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1998 | 10,841 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1999 | 11,234 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2000 | 10,977 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2001 | 10,417 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 2002 | 10,038 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2003 | 10,754 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 2004 | 11,347 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 2005 | 11,258 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2006 | 11,851 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2007 | 11,445 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2008 | 11,148 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 2009 | 11,425 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2010 | 10,942 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2011 | 9,962 kg/ha | -9.0% |
| 2012 | 8,655 kg/ha | -13.1% |
| 2013 | 8,871 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2014 | 8,530 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 2015 | 7,885 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 2016 | 8,074 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2017 | 8,058 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2018 | 7,967 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2019 | 9,457 kg/ha | +18.7% |
| 2020 | 8,036 kg/ha | -15.0% |
| 2021 | 8,813 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 2022 | 8,634 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2023 | 10,066 kg/ha | +16.6% |
| 2024 | 3,934 kg/ha | -60.9% |
Pakistan compared with similar countries
- Pakistan's 3,934 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 6,839 kg/ha, 58% of the median. (28 countries reporting)
- Pakistan's 3,934 kg/ha is below the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 13,979 kg/ha, 28% of the median. (8 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Yield in Pakistan changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | -60.9% | 10,066 kg/ha | 3,934 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11,087 kg/ha | 10,667 kg/ha | 11,667 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 13,848 kg/ha | 11,579 kg/ha | 16,379 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 13,704 kg/ha | 10,302 kg/ha | 16,021 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 10,264 kg/ha | 9,214 kg/ha | 11,234 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 11,066 kg/ha | 10,038 kg/ha | 11,851 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,840 kg/ha | 7,885 kg/ha | 10,942 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 7,896 kg/ha | 3,934 kg/ha | 10,066 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Pakistan
More agriculture & rural data for Pakistan
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 6.28 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2302 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 367.4 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.984 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0004 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6047 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 23.0% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 23.0% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 4.3% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Pakistan?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Pakistan was 3,934 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Pakistan?
- The highest recorded value was 16,379 kg/ha in 1979.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Pakistan?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,934 kg/ha in 2024.
- How does Pakistan rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Pakistan ranks 94th out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Pakistan?
- Over the last ten years it is down 53.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Pakistan 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.