Sweet potatoes — Yield in Small island developing States (SIDS)
Small island developing States (SIDS): Sweet potatoes — Yield was 5,469 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Small island developing States (SIDS), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — yield in Small island developing States (SIDS) stood at 5,469 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and down 19.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Small island developing States (SIDS) peaked at 7,014 kg/ha in 2013 and was at its lowest, 3,948 kg/ha, in 1994.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Small island developing States (SIDS), year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,808 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,808 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 4,760 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1964 | 4,724 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1965 | 4,709 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1966 | 4,759 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1967 | 4,727 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1968 | 4,693 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1969 | 4,736 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1970 | 4,725 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1971 | 4,842 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1972 | 4,916 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1973 | 4,803 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1974 | 4,895 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1975 | 4,811 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1976 | 4,824 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1977 | 4,855 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1978 | 4,861 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1979 | 4,651 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1980 | 4,768 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1981 | 4,782 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1982 | 4,643 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1983 | 4,987 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 1984 | 5,190 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1985 | 4,529 kg/ha | -12.7% |
| 1986 | 4,622 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1987 | 4,700 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1988 | 4,502 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1989 | 4,386 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1990 | 4,192 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1991 | 4,228 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1992 | 4,208 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1993 | 4,154 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1994 | 3,948 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1995 | 4,133 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1996 | 4,182 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1997 | 4,180 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1998 | 4,252 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1999 | 4,656 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 2000 | 4,824 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2001 | 4,994 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2002 | 5,004 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 5,446 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 2004 | 5,385 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2005 | 5,066 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 2006 | 5,260 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2007 | 5,096 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2008 | 4,978 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2009 | 5,172 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2010 | 5,135 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2011 | 5,704 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 2012 | 5,934 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2013 | 7,014 kg/ha | +18.2% |
| 2014 | 6,823 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2015 | 6,219 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 2016 | 6,287 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2017 | 6,300 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 5,742 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 2019 | 6,323 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 2020 | 6,076 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 2021 | 6,012 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2022 | 5,878 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2023 | 5,463 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 2024 | 5,469 kg/ha | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,747 kg/ha | 4,693 kg/ha | 4,808 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,818 kg/ha | 4,651 kg/ha | 4,916 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,711 kg/ha | 4,386 kg/ha | 5,190 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,213 kg/ha | 3,948 kg/ha | 4,656 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,123 kg/ha | 4,824 kg/ha | 5,446 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,148 kg/ha | 5,135 kg/ha | 7,014 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,780 kg/ha | 5,463 kg/ha | 6,076 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Small island developing States (SIDS)
- 8 Spain 29,045 kg/ha compare
- 9 Ethiopia 28,431 kg/ha compare
- 9 United Republic of Tanzania 6,437 kg/ha compare
- 10 Barbados 27,604 kg/ha compare
- 10 Cabo Verde 13,957 kg/ha compare
- 10 Melanesia 5,636 kg/ha compare
- 11 Cook Islands 27,481 kg/ha compare
- 12 Malawi 25,355 kg/ha compare
- 12 Micronesia (Federated States of) 5,461 kg/ha compare
- 12 Micronesia 5,461 kg/ha compare
- 13 Portugal 24,323 kg/ha compare
- 14 China, Taiwan Province of 23,968 kg/ha compare
- 14 Democratic Republic of the Congo 5,012 kg/ha compare
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- Other fruits, n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.2 % change on previous year (2024)
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- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross -2.31 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 8.32 % change on previous year (2024)
- Maize (corn) — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 7.31 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 13.08 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Small island developing States (SIDS)?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Small island developing States (SIDS) was 5,469 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Small island developing States (SIDS)?
- The highest recorded value was 7,014 kg/ha in 2013.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Small island developing States (SIDS)?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,948 kg/ha in 1994.
- How does Small island developing States (SIDS) rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Small island developing States (SIDS) ranks 11th out of 16 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Small island developing States (SIDS)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 19.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Small island developing States (SIDS) 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.