Sweet potatoes — Yield in Singapore
Singapore: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 1,700 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Singapore, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Singapore recorded 1,700 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.8% on the previous year and down 15.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Singapore peaked at 15,000 kg/ha in 1989 and was at its lowest, 1,520 kg/ha, in 2020.
Singapore ranks 111th of 112 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Singapore, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7,972 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 8,966 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 1963 | 8,834 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1964 | 8,887 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1965 | 8,661 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1966 | 8,658 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1967 | 8,674 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1968 | 8,628 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1969 | 10,047 kg/ha | +16.5% |
| 1970 | 10,045 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1971 | 8,225 kg/ha | -18.1% |
| 1972 | 9,339 kg/ha | +13.5% |
| 1973 | 10,000 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1974 | 12,346 kg/ha | +23.5% |
| 1975 | 12,375 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1976 | 12,337 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1977 | 12,000 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1978 | 12,632 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1979 | 12,000 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1980 | 12,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 12,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 12,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 12,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 12,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 12,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 12,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 12,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 12,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 15,000 kg/ha | +25.0% |
| 1990 | 15,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1991 | 10,000 kg/ha | -33.3% |
| 1992 | 9,350 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1993 | 7,980 kg/ha | -14.7% |
| 1994 | 6,876 kg/ha | -13.8% |
| 1995 | 5,969 kg/ha | -13.2% |
| 1996 | 5,000 kg/ha | -16.2% |
| 1999 | 2,716 kg/ha | -45.7% |
| 2000 | 2,361 kg/ha | -13.1% |
| 2001 | 2,215 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 2002 | 2,070 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 2003 | 1,924 kg/ha | -7.0% |
| 2004 | 1,865 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2005 | 1,892 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2007 | 1,948 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2008 | 1,975 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2009 | 2,003 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2010 | 2,030 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2011 | 2,058 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2012 | 2,086 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2013 | 2,113 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2014 | 2,021 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 2015 | 1,919 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2016 | 1,809 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 2017 | 1,699 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 2018 | 1,616 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 2019 | 1,562 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 2020 | 1,520 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2021 | 1,634 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 2022 | 1,673 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2023 | 1,686 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2024 | 1,700 kg/ha | +0.8% |
Singapore compared with similar countries
- Singapore's 1,700 kg/ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 10,301 kg/ha, 17% of the median. (24 countries reporting)
- Singapore's 1,700 kg/ha is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 9,403 kg/ha, 18% of the median. (16 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Yield in Singapore 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 | -45.7% | 5,000 kg/ha | 2,716 kg/ha |
| 1991 | -33.3% | 15,000 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha |
| 1989 | +25.0% | 12,000 kg/ha | 15,000 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,814 kg/ha | 7,972 kg/ha | 10,047 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,130 kg/ha | 8,225 kg/ha | 12,632 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 12,300 kg/ha | 12,000 kg/ha | 15,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,861 kg/ha | 2,716 kg/ha | 15,000 kg/ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 2,028 kg/ha | 1,865 kg/ha | 2,361 kg/ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 1,891 kg/ha | 1,562 kg/ha | 2,113 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,643 kg/ha | 1,520 kg/ha | 1,700 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Singapore
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -1.4 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0002 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 24.33 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 0.0% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 0.0% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.2% (2024)
- Rural population 0.0% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Singapore?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Singapore was 1,700 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Singapore?
- The highest recorded value was 15,000 kg/ha in 1989.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Singapore?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,520 kg/ha in 2020.
- How does Singapore rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Singapore ranks 111th out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Singapore?
- Over the last ten years it is down 15.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Singapore 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.