Sweet potatoes — Yield in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 9,332 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Puerto Rico, 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 Puerto Rico is 9,332 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 1.3% on the previous year and up 17.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Puerto Rico peaked at 13,977 kg/ha in 2012 and was at its lowest, 2,539 kg/ha, in 1961.
Puerto Rico ranks 62nd of 125 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,973 kg/ha | 2,539 kg/ha | 3,520 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,333 kg/ha | 3,464 kg/ha | 7,117 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,329 kg/ha | 4,358 kg/ha | 8,089 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,787 kg/ha | 5,962 kg/ha | 8,678 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,009 kg/ha | 7,929 kg/ha | 9,872 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,678 kg/ha | 7,960 kg/ha | 13,977 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9,428 kg/ha | 9,332 kg/ha | 9,588 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Puerto Rico
- Rural population 180,246 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 0.6858 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 887.20 million current US$ (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 5.7% (2025)
- Rural population growth -2.1% (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 0.6858 (2025)
- Cereal production 3,952 metric tons (2023)
- Cereal yield 3,612 kg per hectare (2023)
- Capture fisheries vs aquaculture 10 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Puerto Rico?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Puerto Rico was 9,332 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Puerto Rico?
- The highest recorded value was 13,977 kg/ha in 2012.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Puerto Rico?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,539 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Puerto Rico rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Puerto Rico ranks 62nd out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Puerto Rico?
- Over the last ten years it is up 17.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Puerto Rico 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.