Australia vs Western Asia: Potatoes — Yield
Potatoes — Yield over time
- Australia
- Western Asia
How they compare
Australia currently reports 40,784 kg/ha against 29,722 kg/ha in Western Asia, a difference of 11,062 kg/ha.
That makes Australia's figure about 1.4 times Western Asia's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Australia has been ahead every year.
Australia ranks 10th and Western Asia ranks 11th of 166 countries.
Australia has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Australia | Western Asia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 15,066 kg/ha | 11,682 kg/ha | 3,383 kg/ha | Australia |
| 1970s | 20,311 kg/ha | 14,333 kg/ha | 5,978 kg/ha | Australia |
| 1980s | 25,828 kg/ha | 18,909 kg/ha | 6,919 kg/ha | Australia |
| 1990s | 30,173 kg/ha | 20,558 kg/ha | 9,615 kg/ha | Australia |
| 2000s | 34,716 kg/ha | 21,209 kg/ha | 13,507 kg/ha | Australia |
| 2010s | 38,311 kg/ha | 24,487 kg/ha | 13,823 kg/ha | Australia |
| 2020s | 40,445 kg/ha | 28,730 kg/ha | 11,714 kg/ha | Australia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher potatoes — yield, Australia or Western Asia?
- Australia, at 40,784 kg/ha against 29,722 kg/ha in Western Asia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in potatoes — yield between Australia and Western Asia?
- 11,062 kg/ha, with Australia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Western Asia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Australia and Western Asia rank globally for potatoes — yield?
- Australia ranks 10th and Western Asia ranks 11th of 166 countries.
- 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.