Sweet potatoes — Yield in Western Asia
Western Asia: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 16,345 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Western Asia, 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 Western Asia is 16,345 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.6% on the previous year and up 21.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Western Asia peaked at 38,916 kg/ha in 1985 and was at its lowest, 8,149 kg/ha, in 2012.
That places Western Asia 9th out of 28 groups 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 | 27,020 kg/ha | 20,000 kg/ha | 30,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 27,729 kg/ha | 18,077 kg/ha | 30,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 32,174 kg/ha | 26,417 kg/ha | 38,916 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 13,517 kg/ha | 9,893 kg/ha | 29,861 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 11,037 kg/ha | 9,807 kg/ha | 14,090 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 13,067 kg/ha | 8,149 kg/ha | 16,533 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 15,922 kg/ha | 15,047 kg/ha | 16,345 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Western Asia
More agriculture & rural data for Western Asia
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 110,431 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 291,165 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 66,983 kg/ha (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 788,652 An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 19.50 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Production 1.37 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 172,662 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 31,503 ha (2024)
- Meat, Poultry — Production 5.42 million t (2024)
- Eggs Primary — Laying 228,391 1000 An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Western Asia?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Western Asia was 16,345 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Western Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 38,916 kg/ha in 1985.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Western Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,149 kg/ha in 2012.
- How does Western Asia rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Western Asia ranks 9th out of 28 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Western Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 21.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Western Asia 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.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 64 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).
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.