Ethiopia vs Madagascar: Sweet potato production

Ethiopia
1.19 million tonnes
in 2024
Madagascar
1.30 million tonnes
in 2024
Ethiopia rank
10th
Madagascar rank
9th

Sweet potato production over time

  • Ethiopia
  • Madagascar
01.0M2.0M3.0M196119922024

How they compare

Madagascar currently reports 1.30 million tonnes against 1.19 million tonnes in Ethiopia, a difference of 113,000 tonnes.

That makes Madagascar's figure about 1.1 times Ethiopia's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 32 shared years of data; in 1993 it was Madagascar ahead.

Ethiopia ranks 10th and Madagascar ranks 9th of 120 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Sweet potato production
Unit
tonnes
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
120 places, 6,871 data points, 1961–2024
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Sweet potato production is measured in tonnes.