Sweet potatoes — Yield in Portugal
Portugal: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 24,323 kg/ha in 2017. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Portugal, 1961–2017
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2017, sweet potatoes — yield in Portugal stood at 24,323 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 15.4% on the previous year and up 208.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Portugal peaked at 25,301 kg/ha in 2011 and was at its lowest, 7,143 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Portugal 13th out of 125 countries with data for 2017, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 57 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,722 kg/ha | 7,143 kg/ha | 8,263 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,789 kg/ha | 7,339 kg/ha | 8,536 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,903 kg/ha | 7,418 kg/ha | 9,333 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,285 kg/ha | 7,714 kg/ha | 11,118 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,648 kg/ha | 7,812 kg/ha | 13,359 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 22,017 kg/ha | 18,297 kg/ha | 25,301 kg/ha | 8 |
Countries ranked near Portugal
- 10 Barbados 27,604 kg/ha compare
- 11 Cook Islands 27,481 kg/ha compare
- 12 Malawi 25,355 kg/ha
- 14 China, Taiwan Province of 23,968 kg/ha compare
- 15 Greece 23,922 kg/ha compare
- 16 Saint Lucia 23,707 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Portugal
- Agriculture share gdp 1.96 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.96 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.9% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.4% (2025)
- Rural population 38.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.6% (2025)
- Rural population 4.16 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.0% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.79 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 30,230 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Portugal?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Portugal was 24,323 kg/ha in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Portugal?
- The highest recorded value was 25,301 kg/ha in 2011.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Portugal?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,143 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Portugal rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Portugal ranks 13th out of 125 countries with data for 2017.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Portugal?
- Over the last ten years it is up 208.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Portugal 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.