Americas vs Australia: Potatoes — Yield
Potatoes — Yield over time
- Americas
- Australia
How they compare
Australia currently reports 40,784 kg/ha against 30,472 kg/ha in Americas, a difference of 10,312 kg/ha.
That makes Australia's figure about 1.3 times Americas's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Americas ahead.
Americas ranks 9th and Australia ranks 10th of 33 groups.
Australia has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Americas | Australia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 13,298 kg/ha | 15,066 kg/ha | 1,768 kg/ha | Australia |
| 1970s | 15,671 kg/ha | 20,311 kg/ha | 4,639 kg/ha | Australia |
| 1980s | 18,493 kg/ha | 25,828 kg/ha | 7,335 kg/ha | Australia |
| 1990s | 19,969 kg/ha | 30,173 kg/ha | 10,204 kg/ha | Australia |
| 2000s | 21,962 kg/ha | 34,716 kg/ha | 12,754 kg/ha | Australia |
| 2010s | 27,857 kg/ha | 38,311 kg/ha | 10,453 kg/ha | Australia |
| 2020s | 29,767 kg/ha | 40,445 kg/ha | 10,678 kg/ha | Australia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher potatoes — yield, Americas or Australia?
- Australia, at 40,784 kg/ha against 30,472 kg/ha in Americas as of 2024.
- What is the difference in potatoes — yield between Americas and Australia?
- 10,312 kg/ha, with Australia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Australia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Americas and Australia rank globally for potatoes — yield?
- Americas ranks 9th and Australia ranks 10th of 33 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.