Sweet potatoes — Yield in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 11,124 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Sri Lanka, 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 Sri Lanka is 11,124 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 7.1% on the previous year and up 22.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Sri Lanka peaked at 11,976 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 3,182 kg/ha, in 1963.
That places Sri Lanka 51st out of 125 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 4,057 kg/ha | 3,182 kg/ha | 5,142 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,776 kg/ha | 3,390 kg/ha | 9,100 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 8,015 kg/ha | 6,345 kg/ha | 9,514 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,433 kg/ha | 6,038 kg/ha | 6,859 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,664 kg/ha | 5,819 kg/ha | 8,125 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,510 kg/ha | 7,850 kg/ha | 10,941 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,167 kg/ha | 10,807 kg/ha | 11,976 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Sri Lanka
- 48 India 11,675 kg/ha compare
- 49 Burkina Faso 11,412 kg/ha compare
- 50 Liberia 11,256 kg/ha compare
- 52 Guadeloupe 10,811 kg/ha compare
- 53 Bangladesh 10,806 kg/ha compare
- 54 Chile 10,795 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Sri Lanka
- Agriculture share gdp 8.36 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 8.36 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2024)
- Rural population 79.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 17.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.10 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 8,514 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Sri Lanka?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Sri Lanka was 11,124 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 11,976 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,182 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Sri Lanka ranks 51st out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is up 22.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sri Lanka 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.