Sweet potatoes — Yield in Spain
Spain: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 29,045 kg/ha in 2017. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Spain, 1961–2017
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Spain recorded 29,045 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2017. That is the highest value across all 57 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 9.5% on the previous year and up 72.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Spain peaked at 29,045 kg/ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 10,293 kg/ha, in 1970.
Spain ranks 8th of 112 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 57 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Spain, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 13,086 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 13,006 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1963 | 13,597 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1964 | 13,559 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1965 | 13,548 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1966 | 12,676 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 1967 | 12,442 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1968 | 12,157 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1969 | 12,562 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1970 | 10,293 kg/ha | -18.1% |
| 1971 | 11,125 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 1972 | 11,200 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1973 | 11,514 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1974 | 12,265 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1975 | 11,969 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1976 | 12,371 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1977 | 13,171 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1978 | 14,879 kg/ha | +13.0% |
| 1979 | 16,526 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1980 | 16,185 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1981 | 15,667 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1982 | 15,625 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1983 | 15,423 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1984 | 16,272 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1985 | 17,119 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1986 | 17,212 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1987 | 16,634 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1988 | 16,522 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1989 | 16,894 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1990 | 17,061 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1991 | 17,432 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1992 | 17,051 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1993 | 18,505 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 1994 | 19,106 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1995 | 18,139 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1996 | 15,815 kg/ha | -12.8% |
| 1997 | 16,680 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1998 | 16,923 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1999 | 16,073 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2000 | 14,994 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 2001 | 19,577 kg/ha | +30.6% |
| 2002 | 17,135 kg/ha | -12.5% |
| 2003 | 12,664 kg/ha | -26.1% |
| 2004 | 16,592 kg/ha | +31.0% |
| 2005 | 16,144 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2006 | 16,835 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2007 | 16,880 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2008 | 17,105 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2009 | 17,213 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2010 | 18,739 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 2011 | 17,941 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2012 | 18,335 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2013 | 18,131 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2014 | 19,851 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 2015 | 19,916 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2016 | 26,518 kg/ha | +33.2% |
| 2017 | 29,045 kg/ha | +9.5% |
Spain compared with similar countries
- Spain's 29,045 kg/ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 10,301 kg/ha, 2.8× the median. (24 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Yield in Spain 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | +33.2% | 19,916 kg/ha | 26,518 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12,959 kg/ha | 12,157 kg/ha | 13,597 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 12,531 kg/ha | 10,293 kg/ha | 16,526 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 16,355 kg/ha | 15,423 kg/ha | 17,212 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 17,278 kg/ha | 15,815 kg/ha | 19,106 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 16,514 kg/ha | 12,664 kg/ha | 19,577 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 21,060 kg/ha | 17,941 kg/ha | 29,045 kg/ha | 8 |
Countries ranked near Spain
- 5 Egypt 36,993 kg/ha compare
- 5 Viet Nam 12,040 kg/ha compare
- 6 Australia and New Zealand 30,206 kg/ha compare
- 7 Botswana 29,658 kg/ha
- 7 Polynesia 10,197 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
More agriculture & rural data for Spain
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 7.64 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0268 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,036 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.0113 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1949 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 2.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 2.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Spain?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Spain was 29,045 kg/ha in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Spain?
- The highest recorded value was 29,045 kg/ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Spain?
- The lowest recorded value was 10,293 kg/ha in 1970.
- How does Spain rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Spain ranks 8th out of 112 countries with data for 2017.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Spain?
- Over the last ten years it is up 72.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Spain 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.