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 71st out of 125 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.
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
- 68 Madagascar 8,630 kg/ha compare
- 69 Martinique 8,237 kg/ha compare
- 70 Yemen 8,217 kg/ha compare
- 72 Brunei Darussalam 8,116 kg/ha compare
- 73 Ethiopia PDR 8,000 kg/ha compare
- 74 Rwanda 7,780 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Sierra Leone
- Agriculture share gdp 29.54 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 29.54 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 9.4% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2018)
- Rural population 54.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.0% (2025)
- Rural population 4.77 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 29.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.20 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 47.85 t (2024)
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 71st out of 125 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.