Americas vs Australia and New Zealand: Potatoes — Yield
Potatoes — Yield over time
- Americas
- Australia and New Zealand
How they compare
Australia and New Zealand currently reports 43,061 kg/ha against 30,472 kg/ha in Americas, a difference of 12,589 kg/ha.
That makes Australia and New Zealand's figure about 1.4 times Americas's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Australia and New Zealand has been ahead every year.
Americas ranks 8th and Australia and New Zealand ranks 6th of 28 groups.
Australia and New Zealand has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Americas | Australia and New Zealand | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 13,298 kg/ha | 16,820 kg/ha | 3,522 kg/ha | Australia and New Zealand |
| 1970s | 15,671 kg/ha | 21,747 kg/ha | 6,075 kg/ha | Australia and New Zealand |
| 1980s | 18,493 kg/ha | 26,468 kg/ha | 7,975 kg/ha | Australia and New Zealand |
| 1990s | 19,969 kg/ha | 32,135 kg/ha | 12,165 kg/ha | Australia and New Zealand |
| 2000s | 21,962 kg/ha | 37,172 kg/ha | 15,209 kg/ha | Australia and New Zealand |
| 2010s | 27,857 kg/ha | 41,010 kg/ha | 13,153 kg/ha | Australia and New Zealand |
| 2020s | 29,767 kg/ha | 42,807 kg/ha | 13,040 kg/ha | Australia and New Zealand |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher potatoes — yield, Americas or Australia and New Zealand?
- Australia and New Zealand, at 43,061 kg/ha against 30,472 kg/ha in Americas as of 2024.
- What is the difference in potatoes — yield between Americas and Australia and New Zealand?
- 12,589 kg/ha, with Australia and New Zealand ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Australia and New Zealand?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Americas and Australia and New Zealand rank globally for potatoes — yield?
- Americas ranks 8th and Australia and New Zealand ranks 6th of 28 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Potatoes — Yield. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
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.