Sweet potatoes — Yield in Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 2,504 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Timor-Leste, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — yield in Timor-Leste stood at 2,504 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Timor-Leste peaked at 5,322 kg/ha in 1987 and was at its lowest, 2,348 kg/ha, in 2010.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Timor-Leste, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,947 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 3,947 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 3,947 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 4,036 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1965 | 3,956 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1966 | 4,072 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1967 | 4,015 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1968 | 3,962 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1969 | 4,060 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1970 | 4,040 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1971 | 4,232 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1972 | 4,353 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1973 | 3,991 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 1974 | 4,500 kg/ha | +12.8% |
| 1975 | 4,000 kg/ha | -11.1% |
| 1976 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 3,267 kg/ha | -18.3% |
| 1979 | 4,000 kg/ha | +22.4% |
| 1980 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 4,310 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 1982 | 4,000 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 1983 | 3,929 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1984 | 3,966 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1985 | 3,900 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1986 | 2,700 kg/ha | -30.8% |
| 1987 | 5,322 kg/ha | +97.1% |
| 1988 | 3,625 kg/ha | -31.9% |
| 1989 | 3,575 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1990 | 3,573 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1991 | 3,311 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1992 | 3,717 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 1993 | 4,714 kg/ha | +26.8% |
| 1994 | 3,464 kg/ha | -26.5% |
| 1995 | 3,927 kg/ha | +13.4% |
| 1996 | 3,857 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1997 | 4,132 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1998 | 3,928 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 1999 | 4,000 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2000 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 4,118 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2002 | 3,714 kg/ha | -9.8% |
| 2003 | 3,786 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2004 | 3,826 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2005 | 3,899 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2006 | 4,180 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 2007 | 3,725 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 2008 | 2,510 kg/ha | -32.6% |
| 2009 | 2,661 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 2010 | 2,348 kg/ha | -11.8% |
| 2011 | 2,988 kg/ha | +27.2% |
| 2012 | 2,873 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 2013 | 2,625 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 2014 | 2,499 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 2015 | 2,499 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2016 | 2,547 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2017 | 2,583 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2018 | 2,590 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2019 | 2,528 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2020 | 2,522 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2021 | 2,846 kg/ha | +12.8% |
| 2022 | 2,662 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 2023 | 2,503 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 2024 | 2,504 kg/ha | +0.0% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sweet potatoes — Yield in Timor-Leste 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | +97.1% | 2,700 kg/ha | 5,322 kg/ha |
| 2008 | -32.6% | 3,725 kg/ha | 2,510 kg/ha |
| 1988 | -31.9% | 5,322 kg/ha | 3,625 kg/ha |
| 1986 | -30.8% | 3,900 kg/ha | 2,700 kg/ha |
| 2011 | +27.2% | 2,348 kg/ha | 2,988 kg/ha |
| 1993 | +26.8% | 3,717 kg/ha | 4,714 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,994 kg/ha | 3,947 kg/ha | 4,072 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,038 kg/ha | 3,267 kg/ha | 4,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,933 kg/ha | 2,700 kg/ha | 5,322 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,862 kg/ha | 3,311 kg/ha | 4,714 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,642 kg/ha | 2,510 kg/ha | 4,180 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,608 kg/ha | 2,348 kg/ha | 2,988 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,608 kg/ha | 2,503 kg/ha | 2,846 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Timor-Leste
- 13 Portugal 24,323 kg/ha compare
- 14 China, Taiwan Province of 23,968 kg/ha compare
- 14 Democratic Republic of the Congo 5,012 kg/ha compare
- 15 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 4,244 kg/ha compare
- 15 Greece 23,922 kg/ha compare
- 16 Saint Lucia 23,707 kg/ha compare
- 17 Réunion 23,030 kg/ha compare
- 18 Morocco 22,841 kg/ha compare
- 19 Japan 22,547 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Timor-Leste?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Timor-Leste was 2,504 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Timor-Leste?
- The highest recorded value was 5,322 kg/ha in 1987.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Timor-Leste?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,348 kg/ha in 2010.
- How does Timor-Leste rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Timor-Leste ranks 16th out of 16 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Timor-Leste?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Timor-Leste 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.