Sweet potatoes — Yield in Suriname
Suriname: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 13,692 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Suriname, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Suriname recorded 13,692 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 3.6% on the previous year and up 39.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Suriname peaked at 19,163 kg/ha in 2006 and was at its lowest, 2,425 kg/ha, in 1965.
That places Suriname 38th out of 125 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,092 kg/ha | 2,425 kg/ha | 9,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,671 kg/ha | 3,314 kg/ha | 5,444 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,683 kg/ha | 3,800 kg/ha | 5,417 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,528 kg/ha | 3,385 kg/ha | 12,250 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 14,734 kg/ha | 11,500 kg/ha | 19,163 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 15,262 kg/ha | 9,784 kg/ha | 19,042 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 14,539 kg/ha | 12,312 kg/ha | 16,933 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Suriname
- 35 Niue 14,818 kg/ha compare
- 36 Solomon Islands 14,032 kg/ha compare
- 37 Cabo Verde 13,957 kg/ha compare
- 39 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 13,671 kg/ha compare
- 40 China, Hong Kong SAR 13,005 kg/ha compare
- 41 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 12,987 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Suriname
- Agriculture share gdp 6.77 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.77 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 6.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.1% (2024)
- Rural population 34.2% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.8% (2025)
- Rural population 218,901 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.8% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 299.02 million current US$ (2024)
- Bananas — Production 3,586 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Suriname?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Suriname was 13,692 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Suriname?
- The highest recorded value was 19,163 kg/ha in 2006.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Suriname?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,425 kg/ha in 1965.
- How does Suriname rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Suriname ranks 38th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Suriname?
- Over the last ten years it is up 39.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Suriname 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.