Caribbean vs China: Potatoes — Yield
Potatoes — Yield over time
- Caribbean
- China
How they compare
China currently reports 20,806 kg/ha against 20,136 kg/ha in Caribbean, a difference of 670 kg/ha.
The two have swapped places 13 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Caribbean ahead.
Caribbean ranks 80th and China ranks 78th of 166 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Caribbean averaged higher in 5 and China in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Caribbean | China | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,615 kg/ha | 9,145 kg/ha | 1,470 kg/ha | Caribbean |
| 1970s | 10,726 kg/ha | 11,793 kg/ha | 1,067 kg/ha | China |
| 1980s | 17,032 kg/ha | 10,910 kg/ha | 6,122 kg/ha | Caribbean |
| 1990s | 16,666 kg/ha | 13,418 kg/ha | 3,248 kg/ha | Caribbean |
| 2000s | 22,216 kg/ha | 14,760 kg/ha | 7,456 kg/ha | Caribbean |
| 2010s | 20,258 kg/ha | 17,731 kg/ha | 2,527 kg/ha | Caribbean |
| 2020s | 19,498 kg/ha | 20,365 kg/ha | 866.46 kg/ha | China |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher potatoes — yield, Caribbean or China?
- China, at 20,806 kg/ha against 20,136 kg/ha in Caribbean as of 2024.
- What is the difference in potatoes — yield between Caribbean and China?
- 670 kg/ha, with China ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Caribbean and China?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Caribbean and China rank globally for potatoes — yield?
- Caribbean ranks 80th and China ranks 78th 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.