Sweet potatoes — Yield in Tonga
Tonga: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 9,901 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Tonga, 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 Tonga is 9,901 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.7% on the previous year and down 7.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Tonga peaked at 12,929 kg/ha in 1979 and was at its lowest, 9,836 kg/ha, in 2023.
That places Tonga 58th out of 125 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12,053 kg/ha | 11,854 kg/ha | 12,377 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 12,145 kg/ha | 11,846 kg/ha | 12,929 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 12,010 kg/ha | 11,900 kg/ha | 12,250 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 11,956 kg/ha | 10,188 kg/ha | 12,371 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 11,832 kg/ha | 11,101 kg/ha | 12,346 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,499 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10,958 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,012 kg/ha | 9,836 kg/ha | 10,380 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Tonga
- Agriculture share gdp 18.57 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 18.57 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.7% (2023)
- Rural population 78.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.4% (2025)
- Rural population 81,794 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 18.6% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 120.22 million current US$ (2024)
- Bananas — Production 817.1 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Tonga?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Tonga was 9,901 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Tonga?
- The highest recorded value was 12,929 kg/ha in 1979.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Tonga?
- The lowest recorded value was 9,836 kg/ha in 2023.
- How does Tonga rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Tonga ranks 58th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Tonga?
- Over the last ten years it is down 7.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Tonga 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.