Sweet potatoes — Yield in Zambia
Zambia: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 2,805 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Zambia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Zambia recorded 2,805 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 14.9% on the previous year and down 14.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Zambia peaked at 14,769 kg/ha in 1987 and was at its lowest, 1,028 kg/ha, in 2001.
That places Zambia 110th out of 125 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12,673 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 13,913 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 14,288 kg/ha | 13,846 kg/ha | 14,615 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 14,153 kg/ha | 10,400 kg/ha | 14,769 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,749 kg/ha | 1,405 kg/ha | 5,400 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,715 kg/ha | 1,028 kg/ha | 3,888 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,625 kg/ha | 3,157 kg/ha | 4,058 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,844 kg/ha | 2,440 kg/ha | 3,213 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Zambia
- Agriculture share gdp 4.11 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 4.11 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
- Rural population 54.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.9% (2025)
- Rural population 11.85 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.19 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 683.84 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Zambia?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Zambia was 2,805 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Zambia?
- The highest recorded value was 14,769 kg/ha in 1987.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Zambia?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,028 kg/ha in 2001.
- How does Zambia rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Zambia ranks 110th out of 125 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Zambia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 14.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Zambia 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.