Sweet potatoes — Yield in World
World: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 12,603 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in World, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sweet potatoes — yield in World stood at 12,603 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 0.6% on the previous year and up 5.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in World peaked at 15,314 kg/ha in 1996 and was at its lowest, 7,332 kg/ha, in 1964.
World ranks 14th of 28 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,024 kg/ha | 7,332 kg/ha | 10,965 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,522 kg/ha | 10,062 kg/ha | 12,442 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 13,555 kg/ha | 12,430 kg/ha | 14,640 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 14,162 kg/ha | 13,218 kg/ha | 15,314 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 13,622 kg/ha | 12,263 kg/ha | 14,513 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,996 kg/ha | 11,562 kg/ha | 12,432 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 12,575 kg/ha | 12,523 kg/ha | 12,603 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near World
- 11 Cook Islands 27,481 kg/ha compare
- 12 Malawi 25,355 kg/ha compare
- 13 Portugal 24,323 kg/ha compare
- 14 China, Taiwan Province of 23,968 kg/ha compare
- 15 Greece 23,922 kg/ha compare
- 16 Saint Lucia 23,707 kg/ha compare
- 17 Morocco 22,841 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for World
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.2% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
- Rural population 42.2% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.3% (2025)
- Rural population 3.46 billion (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.0% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.75 trillion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 139.41 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 5.88 million ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 6.05 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in World?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in World was 12,603 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in World?
- The highest recorded value was 15,314 kg/ha in 1996.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in World?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,332 kg/ha in 1964.
- How does World rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- World ranks 14th out of 28 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in World?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this World 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.