Sweet potatoes — Yield in Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 5,105 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Saint Kitts and Nevis, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Saint Kitts and Nevis recorded 5,105 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 4.5% on the previous year and down 44.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Saint Kitts and Nevis peaked at 9,375 kg/ha in 1983 and was at its lowest, 1,686 kg/ha, in 1974.
Saint Kitts and Nevis ranks 96th of 125 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,143 kg/ha | 2,000 kg/ha | 2,500 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,771 kg/ha | 1,686 kg/ha | 5,688 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 8,710 kg/ha | 6,250 kg/ha | 9,375 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,031 kg/ha | 3,400 kg/ha | 8,889 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,698 kg/ha | 2,981 kg/ha | 9,091 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,788 kg/ha | 5,565 kg/ha | 9,267 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,703 kg/ha | 5,105 kg/ha | 6,443 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Saint Kitts and Nevis
- 94 Equatorial Guinea 5,347 kg/ha compare
- 95 Papua New Guinea 5,127 kg/ha compare
- 98 Democratic Republic of the Congo 5,012 kg/ha compare
- 99 Mozambique 5,000 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Agriculture share gdp 1.29 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.29 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2017)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2017)
- Rural population 68.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.0% (2025)
- Rural population 31,954 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 15.26 million current US$ (2025)
- Tomatoes — Production 114.89 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Saint Kitts and Nevis?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Saint Kitts and Nevis was 5,105 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Saint Kitts and Nevis?
- The highest recorded value was 9,375 kg/ha in 1983.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Saint Kitts and Nevis?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,686 kg/ha in 1974.
- How does Saint Kitts and Nevis rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Saint Kitts and Nevis ranks 96th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Saint Kitts and Nevis?
- Over the last ten years it is down 44.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Saint Kitts and Nevis 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.