Nigeria vs Tanzania: Sweet potato production

Nigeria

4.09 million tonnes

in 2024

Tanzania

2.23 million tonnes

in 2024

Nigeria rank

3rd

Tanzania rank

4th

Sweet potato production over time

Nigeria currently reports 4.09 million tonnes against 2.23 million tonnes in Tanzania, a difference of 1.86 million tonnes.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.8 times Tanzania's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Tanzania ahead.

Nigeria ranks 3rd and Tanzania ranks 4th 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.