Sweet potatoes — Yield in Yemen
Yemen: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 8,217 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Yemen, 1987–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Yemen recorded 8,217 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and down 2.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Yemen peaked at 10,000 kg/ha in 1994 and was at its lowest, 8,081 kg/ha, in 2022.
That places Yemen 70th out of 125 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 38 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 9,138 kg/ha | 8,643 kg/ha | 9,947 kg/ha | 3 |
| 1990s | 9,734 kg/ha | 8,688 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,265 kg/ha | 8,333 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,591 kg/ha | 8,230 kg/ha | 9,210 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,166 kg/ha | 8,081 kg/ha | 8,217 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Yemen
- 67 Myanmar 8,874 kg/ha compare
- 68 Madagascar 8,630 kg/ha compare
- 69 Martinique 8,237 kg/ha compare
- 71 Sierra Leone 8,208 kg/ha compare
- 72 Brunei Darussalam 8,116 kg/ha compare
- 73 Ethiopia PDR 8,000 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Yemen
- Agriculture share gdp 28.75 (2018)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 28.75 (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2019)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.6% (2019)
- Rural population 63.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.5% (2025)
- Rural population 26.30 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 28.7% (2018)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.21 billion current US$ (2018)
- Bananas — Production 135,448 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Yemen?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Yemen was 8,217 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Yemen?
- The highest recorded value was 10,000 kg/ha in 1994.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Yemen?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,081 kg/ha in 2022.
- How does Yemen rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Yemen ranks 70th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Yemen?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Yemen 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.