Sweet potatoes — Yield in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 1,928 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Trinidad and Tobago, 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 Trinidad and Tobago is 1,928 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 62.4% on the previous year and down 68.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Trinidad and Tobago peaked at 11,363 kg/ha in 1978 and was at its lowest, 1,920 kg/ha, in 2007.
That places Trinidad and Tobago 105th out of 110 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,365 kg/ha | 3,362 kg/ha | 3,372 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,688 kg/ha | 3,361 kg/ha | 11,363 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,791 kg/ha | 2,000 kg/ha | 11,229 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,867 kg/ha | 4,125 kg/ha | 6,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,549 kg/ha | 1,920 kg/ha | 6,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,286 kg/ha | 2,589 kg/ha | 6,041 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,308 kg/ha | 1,928 kg/ha | 10,652 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Trinidad and Tobago
- Agriculture share gdp 0.7776 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 0.7776 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2024)
- Rural population 46.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.1% (2025)
- Rural population 629,587 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 0.8% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 199.33 million current US$ (2024)
- Bananas — Production 3,246 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Trinidad and Tobago was 1,928 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Trinidad and Tobago?
- The highest recorded value was 11,363 kg/ha in 1978.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Trinidad and Tobago?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,920 kg/ha in 2007.
- How does Trinidad and Tobago rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Trinidad and Tobago ranks 105th out of 110 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Over the last ten years it is down 68.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Trinidad and Tobago 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.