Sweet potatoes — Yield in Paraguay
Paraguay: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 9,199 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Paraguay, 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 Paraguay is 9,199 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 4.3% on the previous year and down 8.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Paraguay peaked at 11,000 kg/ha in 1971 and was at its lowest, 5,636 kg/ha, in 2022.
That places Paraguay 63rd out of 125 countries 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 | 9,947 kg/ha | 9,495 kg/ha | 10,699 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,318 kg/ha | 5,862 kg/ha | 11,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 8,181 kg/ha | 6,646 kg/ha | 10,187 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,898 kg/ha | 7,288 kg/ha | 8,699 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,419 kg/ha | 5,681 kg/ha | 8,830 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,436 kg/ha | 8,608 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,687 kg/ha | 5,636 kg/ha | 9,905 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Paraguay
- 60 Uruguay 9,690 kg/ha compare
- 61 Dominican Republic 9,461 kg/ha compare
- 62 Puerto Rico 9,332 kg/ha compare
- 64 Benin 9,126 kg/ha compare
- 65 Fiji 9,000 kg/ha compare
- 66 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 8,931 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Paraguay
- Agriculture share gdp 11.64 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 11.64 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2025)
- Rural population 29.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.6% (2025)
- Rural population 2.08 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 11.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.74 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 88,870 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Paraguay?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Paraguay was 9,199 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Paraguay?
- The highest recorded value was 11,000 kg/ha in 1971.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Paraguay?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,636 kg/ha in 2022.
- How does Paraguay rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Paraguay ranks 63rd out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Paraguay?
- Over the last ten years it is down 8.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Paraguay 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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About this data
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.