Potatoes — Area harvested in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe: Potatoes — Area harvested was 2.73 million ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Potatoes — Area harvested in Eastern Europe, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for potatoes — area harvested in Eastern Europe is 2.73 million ha, measured in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of down 2.5% on the previous year and down 36.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — area harvested in Eastern Europe peaked at 12.82 million ha in 1961 and was at its lowest, 2.73 million ha, in 2024.
That places Eastern Europe 7th out of 33 regions with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12.27 million ha | 11.67 million ha | 12.82 million ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10.91 million ha | 10.05 million ha | 11.64 million ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9.28 million ha | 8.50 million ha | 9.88 million ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7.69 million ha | 6.93 million ha | 8.27 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5.59 million ha | 4.83 million ha | 6.90 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4.07 million ha | 3.28 million ha | 4.74 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2.88 million ha | 2.73 million ha | 3.08 million ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Europe
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- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 97 kg/An (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 0 ha (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 93.05 million An (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 53.79 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 176,254 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 6.41 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Production 0 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 36,348 kg/ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — area harvested in Eastern Europe?
- Potatoes — area harvested in Eastern Europe was 2.73 million ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — area harvested recorded in Eastern Europe?
- The highest recorded value was 12.82 million ha in 1961.
- What is the lowest potatoes — area harvested recorded in Eastern Europe?
- The lowest recorded value was 2.73 million ha in 2024.
- How does Eastern Europe rank for potatoes — area harvested?
- Eastern Europe ranks 7th out of 33 regions with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Eastern Europe?
- Over the last ten years it is down 36.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Eastern Europe data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Potatoes — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.