Sweet potatoes — Yield in Southern Africa
Southern Africa: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 2,584 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Southern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Southern Africa recorded 2,584 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 1.3% on the previous year and down 10.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Southern Africa peaked at 3,816 kg/ha in 1985 and was at its lowest, 2,554 kg/ha, in 1966.
Southern Africa ranks 28th of 28 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,852 kg/ha | 2,554 kg/ha | 3,308 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,274 kg/ha | 2,964 kg/ha | 3,479 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,457 kg/ha | 3,163 kg/ha | 3,816 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,404 kg/ha | 3,077 kg/ha | 3,678 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,211 kg/ha | 2,930 kg/ha | 3,375 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,868 kg/ha | 2,766 kg/ha | 3,012 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,644 kg/ha | 2,584 kg/ha | 2,693 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Southern Africa
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Southern Africa?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Southern Africa was 2,584 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 3,816 kg/ha in 1985.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,554 kg/ha in 1966.
- How does Southern Africa rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Southern Africa ranks 28th out of 28 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Southern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 10.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Southern Africa 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.