Sweet potatoes — Yield in Uganda
Uganda: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 4,630 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Uganda, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Uganda recorded 4,630 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.9% on the previous year and up 15.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Uganda peaked at 6,208 kg/ha in 1967 and was at its lowest, 2,401 kg/ha, in 1972.
That places Uganda 103rd out of 125 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 3,975 kg/ha | 2,963 kg/ha | 6,208 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,462 kg/ha | 2,401 kg/ha | 4,969 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,279 kg/ha | 3,714 kg/ha | 5,195 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,081 kg/ha | 3,000 kg/ha | 4,501 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,381 kg/ha | 4,196 kg/ha | 4,591 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,255 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 4,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,804 kg/ha | 4,620 kg/ha | 5,008 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Uganda
- 100 Guinea-Bissau 4,918 kg/ha compare
- 101 Antigua and Barbuda 4,829 kg/ha compare
- 102 Comoros 4,756 kg/ha compare
- 104 Guinea 4,358 kg/ha compare
- 105 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 4,244 kg/ha compare
- 106 Pakistan 3,934 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Uganda
- Agriculture share gdp 26.13 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 26.13 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
- Rural population 68.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.7% (2025)
- Rural population 34.97 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 26.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.20 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 560,000 t (1990)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Uganda?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Uganda was 4,630 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Uganda?
- The highest recorded value was 6,208 kg/ha in 1967.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Uganda?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,401 kg/ha in 1972.
- How does Uganda rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Uganda ranks 103rd out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Uganda?
- Over the last ten years it is up 15.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Uganda 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.