Sweet potatoes — Yield in United States of America
United States of America: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 18,662 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in United States of America, 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 United States of America is 18,662 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 16.2% on the previous year and down 23.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in United States of America peaked at 25,080 kg/ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 8,822 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places United States of America 5th out of 25 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in United States of America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 8,822 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 9,474 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 1963 | 9,425 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1964 | 9,618 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1965 | 10,316 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1966 | 9,925 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1967 | 10,838 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 1968 | 11,092 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1969 | 11,564 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1970 | 11,593 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1971 | 11,445 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1972 | 12,043 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1973 | 12,212 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1974 | 12,662 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1975 | 12,645 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1976 | 12,973 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1977 | 12,451 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1978 | 13,100 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1979 | 13,121 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1980 | 12,012 kg/ha | -8.5% |
| 1981 | 13,067 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1982 | 14,407 kg/ha | +10.3% |
| 1983 | 13,222 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 1984 | 14,049 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1985 | 15,804 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 1986 | 15,250 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1987 | 14,630 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1988 | 14,345 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1989 | 14,802 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1990 | 15,780 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 1991 | 16,127 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1992 | 16,327 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1993 | 15,453 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1994 | 18,133 kg/ha | +17.3% |
| 1995 | 17,293 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1996 | 17,699 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1997 | 18,197 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1998 | 16,559 kg/ha | -9.0% |
| 1999 | 16,503 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2000 | 16,292 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2001 | 17,381 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 2002 | 17,431 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2003 | 19,235 kg/ha | +10.3% |
| 2004 | 19,460 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2005 | 19,944 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2006 | 21,057 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2007 | 20,794 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2008 | 21,245 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2009 | 22,520 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 2010 | 22,863 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2011 | 23,302 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2012 | 23,447 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2013 | 24,541 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2014 | 24,528 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2015 | 22,706 kg/ha | -7.4% |
| 2016 | 21,652 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 2017 | 25,080 kg/ha | +15.8% |
| 2018 | 21,250 kg/ha | -15.3% |
| 2019 | 24,428 kg/ha | +15.0% |
| 2020 | 21,744 kg/ha | -11.0% |
| 2021 | 21,492 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2022 | 22,208 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2023 | 22,262 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 18,662 kg/ha | -16.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,119 kg/ha | 8,822 kg/ha | 11,564 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 12,425 kg/ha | 11,445 kg/ha | 13,121 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 14,159 kg/ha | 12,012 kg/ha | 15,804 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 16,807 kg/ha | 15,453 kg/ha | 18,197 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 19,536 kg/ha | 16,292 kg/ha | 22,520 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 23,380 kg/ha | 21,250 kg/ha | 25,080 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 21,274 kg/ha | 18,662 kg/ha | 22,262 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near United States of America
- 2 Lao People's Democratic Republic 17,455 kg/ha compare
- 2 Senegal 46,084 kg/ha compare
- 3 Australia 41,794 kg/ha compare
- 3 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 13,671 kg/ha compare
- 4 Palestine, State of 39,473 kg/ha compare
- 4 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 12,987 kg/ha compare
- 5 Egypt 36,993 kg/ha compare
- 5 Viet Nam 12,040 kg/ha compare
- 6 Australia and New Zealand 30,206 kg/ha compare
- 7 Botswana 29,658 kg/ha compare
- 7 Polynesia 10,197 kg/ha compare
- 8 Spain 29,045 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in United States of America?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in United States of America was 18,662 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in United States of America?
- The highest recorded value was 25,080 kg/ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in United States of America?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,822 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does United States of America rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- United States of America ranks 5th out of 25 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in United States of America?
- Over the last ten years it is down 23.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this United States of America 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.