Sweet potatoes — Yield in South America
South America: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 14,177 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in South America, 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 South America is 14,177 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 1.2% on the previous year and up 8.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in South America peaked at 14,353 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 8,287 kg/ha, in 1980.
South America ranks 10th of 28 groups 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 | 10,126 kg/ha | 9,379 kg/ha | 11,280 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 9,953 kg/ha | 8,518 kg/ha | 11,577 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,313 kg/ha | 8,287 kg/ha | 10,447 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 11,095 kg/ha | 9,835 kg/ha | 11,991 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 11,570 kg/ha | 10,970 kg/ha | 12,156 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 13,165 kg/ha | 12,357 kg/ha | 13,722 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 13,966 kg/ha | 13,517 kg/ha | 14,353 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near South America
More agriculture & rural data for South America
- Bananas — Production 20.74 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 747,608 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 401,333 ha (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 75.21 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 8.33 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 132,585 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 62,811 kg/ha (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.00 million ha (2024)
- Milk, Total — Production 69.74 million t (2024)
- Meat, Poultry — Yield/Carcass Weight 2,181 g/An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in South America?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in South America was 14,177 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in South America?
- The highest recorded value was 14,353 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in South America?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,287 kg/ha in 1980.
- How does South America rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- South America ranks 10th out of 28 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in South America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this South America 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.