Sweet potatoes — Yield in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 8,208 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Sierra Leone, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Sierra Leone recorded 8,208 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 3.8% on the previous year and up 80.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Sierra Leone peaked at 9,572 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 1,852 kg/ha, in 1977.
That places Sierra Leone 66th out of 112 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 Sierra Leone, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2,614 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,590 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1963 | 2,658 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1964 | 2,655 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1965 | 2,328 kg/ha | -12.3% |
| 1966 | 2,747 kg/ha | +18.0% |
| 1967 | 2,500 kg/ha | -9.0% |
| 1968 | 2,000 kg/ha | -20.0% |
| 1969 | 3,077 kg/ha | +53.8% |
| 1970 | 2,651 kg/ha | -13.9% |
| 1971 | 2,857 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 1972 | 2,686 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1973 | 2,412 kg/ha | -10.2% |
| 1974 | 2,412 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 2,412 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 2,019 kg/ha | -16.3% |
| 1977 | 1,852 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 1978 | 2,037 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1979 | 2,037 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 2,400 kg/ha | +17.8% |
| 1981 | 2,500 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1982 | 2,520 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1983 | 2,540 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1984 | 2,889 kg/ha | +13.7% |
| 1985 | 2,889 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 2,889 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 2,760 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1988 | 2,800 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1989 | 2,800 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 3,527 kg/ha | +26.0% |
| 1991 | 3,548 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1992 | 3,480 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1993 | 3,591 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1994 | 2,796 kg/ha | -22.1% |
| 1995 | 3,206 kg/ha | +14.6% |
| 1996 | 3,107 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1997 | 2,908 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 1998 | 2,813 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1999 | 4,532 kg/ha | +61.1% |
| 2000 | 2,640 kg/ha | -41.8% |
| 2001 | 2,545 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2002 | 2,757 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 2003 | 3,172 kg/ha | +15.1% |
| 2004 | 3,281 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2005 | 3,370 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2006 | 3,370 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 3,370 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 3,370 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 4,570 kg/ha | +35.6% |
| 2010 | 4,800 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 2011 | 5,040 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 2012 | 4,801 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 2013 | 3,500 kg/ha | -27.1% |
| 2014 | 4,559 kg/ha | +30.3% |
| 2015 | 4,929 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 2016 | 4,923 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2017 | 7,378 kg/ha | +49.9% |
| 2018 | 7,415 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2019 | 9,572 kg/ha | +29.1% |
| 2020 | 7,985 kg/ha | -16.6% |
| 2021 | 8,020 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2022 | 8,056 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2023 | 7,905 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2024 | 8,208 kg/ha | +3.8% |
Sierra Leone compared with similar countries
- Sierra Leone's 8,208 kg/ha is below the median for low income countries, which is 8,630 kg/ha, 95% of the median. (17 countries reporting)
- Sierra Leone's 8,208 kg/ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 7,417 kg/ha, 1.1× the median. (36 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Yield in Sierra Leone 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | +61.1% | 2,813 kg/ha | 4,532 kg/ha |
| 1969 | +53.8% | 2,000 kg/ha | 3,077 kg/ha |
| 2017 | +49.9% | 4,923 kg/ha | 7,378 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,574 kg/ha | 2,000 kg/ha | 3,077 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,338 kg/ha | 1,852 kg/ha | 2,857 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,699 kg/ha | 2,400 kg/ha | 2,889 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,351 kg/ha | 2,796 kg/ha | 4,532 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,244 kg/ha | 2,545 kg/ha | 4,570 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,692 kg/ha | 3,500 kg/ha | 9,572 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,035 kg/ha | 7,905 kg/ha | 8,208 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Sierra Leone
- 63 Madagascar 8,630 kg/ha compare
- 64 Martinique 8,237 kg/ha compare
- 65 Yemen 8,217 kg/ha compare
- 67 Brunei Darussalam 8,116 kg/ha compare
- 68 Ethiopia PDR 8,000 kg/ha compare
- 69 Rwanda 7,780 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Sierra Leone
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 8.47 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2954 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 250 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0006 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5407 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 29.5% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 29.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 9.4% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2018)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Sierra Leone?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Sierra Leone was 8,208 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The highest recorded value was 9,572 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,852 kg/ha in 1977.
- How does Sierra Leone rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Sierra Leone ranks 66th out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Sierra Leone?
- Over the last ten years it is up 80.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sierra Leone 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.