Sweet potatoes — Yield in Western Africa
Western Africa: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 3,417 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Western Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — yield in Western Africa stood at 3,417 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 0.9% on the previous year and up 18.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Western Africa peaked at 5,736 kg/ha in 1964 and was at its lowest, 2,539 kg/ha, in 2007.
Western Africa ranks 26th of 28 groups on this measure, 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 | 5,378 kg/ha | 4,830 kg/ha | 5,736 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,819 kg/ha | 4,494 kg/ha | 5,248 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,211 kg/ha | 4,868 kg/ha | 5,592 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,280 kg/ha | 3,076 kg/ha | 4,913 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,160 kg/ha | 2,539 kg/ha | 3,547 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,072 kg/ha | 2,878 kg/ha | 3,392 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,359 kg/ha | 3,296 kg/ha | 3,417 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Western Africa
More agriculture & rural data for Western Africa
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 48 kg/An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 14.80 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 50,778 t (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 17.11 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 1.05 million ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 6,608 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 6.91 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 39,728 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 8.72 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 598,635 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Western Africa?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Western Africa was 3,417 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Western Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 5,736 kg/ha in 1964.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Western Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,539 kg/ha in 2007.
- How does Western Africa rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Western Africa ranks 26th out of 28 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Western Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 18.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Western Africa 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.