Sweet potatoes — Yield in Philippines
Philippines: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 6,235 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Philippines, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Philippines recorded 6,235 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 8.1% on the previous year and up 6.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Philippines peaked at 6,737 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 3,975 kg/ha, in 1976.
Philippines ranks 80th of 112 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Philippines, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,057 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,148 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1963 | 4,636 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 1964 | 4,960 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 1965 | 4,964 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1966 | 5,034 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1967 | 5,222 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1968 | 5,102 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1969 | 5,245 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1970 | 5,433 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1971 | 5,118 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 1972 | 4,673 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 1973 | 4,489 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1974 | 4,459 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1975 | 5,038 kg/ha | +13.0% |
| 1976 | 3,975 kg/ha | -21.1% |
| 1977 | 4,028 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1978 | 4,556 kg/ha | +13.1% |
| 1979 | 4,718 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1980 | 4,442 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 1981 | 5,168 kg/ha | +16.3% |
| 1982 | 4,960 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1983 | 4,858 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1984 | 4,629 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1985 | 4,672 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1986 | 4,680 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1987 | 4,791 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1988 | 4,821 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1989 | 4,774 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1990 | 4,709 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1991 | 4,653 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1992 | 4,608 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1993 | 4,498 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1994 | 4,570 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1995 | 4,599 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1996 | 4,640 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1997 | 4,456 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1998 | 4,254 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1999 | 4,212 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2000 | 4,339 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2001 | 4,376 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2002 | 4,485 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2003 | 4,475 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2004 | 4,523 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2005 | 4,763 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2006 | 4,770 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2007 | 4,879 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2008 | 4,917 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2009 | 4,900 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2010 | 4,946 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2011 | 4,979 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2012 | 5,114 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2013 | 5,570 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 2014 | 5,843 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 2015 | 6,244 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 2016 | 6,247 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 6,323 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2018 | 6,254 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2019 | 6,310 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2020 | 6,534 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2021 | 6,548 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 6,737 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2023 | 5,768 kg/ha | -14.4% |
| 2024 | 6,235 kg/ha | +8.1% |
Philippines compared with similar countries
- Philippines's 6,235 kg/ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 9,330 kg/ha, 67% of the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Philippines's 6,235 kg/ha is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 9,403 kg/ha, 66% of the median. (16 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,041 kg/ha | 4,636 kg/ha | 5,245 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,649 kg/ha | 3,975 kg/ha | 5,433 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,779 kg/ha | 4,442 kg/ha | 5,168 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,520 kg/ha | 4,212 kg/ha | 4,709 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,643 kg/ha | 4,339 kg/ha | 4,917 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,783 kg/ha | 4,946 kg/ha | 6,323 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,364 kg/ha | 5,768 kg/ha | 6,737 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Philippines
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -0.2488 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0859 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 358.34 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.0874 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4423 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 8.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 8.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.6% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Philippines?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Philippines was 6,235 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Philippines?
- The highest recorded value was 6,737 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Philippines?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,975 kg/ha in 1976.
- How does Philippines rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Philippines ranks 80th out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Philippines?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Philippines 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.