Japan vs Kenya: Sweet potato production

Japan

717,000 tonnes

in 2024

Kenya

862,724 tonnes

in 2024

Japan rank

18th

Kenya rank

16th

Sweet potato production over time

Kenya currently reports 862,724 tonnes against 717,000 tonnes in Japan, a difference of 145,724 tonnes.

That makes Kenya's figure about 1.2 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Japan ahead.

Japan ranks 18th and Kenya ranks 16th of 120 countries.

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
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Sweet potato production is measured in tonnes.