Potatoes — Area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)
Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs): Potatoes — Area harvested was 1.74 million ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Potatoes — Area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) recorded 1.74 million ha for potatoes — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.5% on the previous year and up 37.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) peaked at 1.74 million ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 217,695 ha, in 1968.
Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) ranks 9th of 29 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Potatoes — Area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs), year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 224,286 ha | — |
| 1962 | 230,827 ha | +2.9% |
| 1963 | 241,087 ha | +4.4% |
| 1964 | 218,976 ha | -9.2% |
| 1965 | 236,893 ha | +8.2% |
| 1966 | 229,209 ha | -3.2% |
| 1967 | 230,718 ha | +0.7% |
| 1968 | 217,695 ha | -5.6% |
| 1969 | 224,181 ha | +3.0% |
| 1970 | 230,554 ha | +2.8% |
| 1971 | 240,160 ha | +4.2% |
| 1972 | 252,601 ha | +5.2% |
| 1973 | 284,335 ha | +12.6% |
| 1974 | 292,695 ha | +2.9% |
| 1975 | 318,341 ha | +8.8% |
| 1976 | 342,447 ha | +7.6% |
| 1977 | 325,206 ha | -5.0% |
| 1978 | 362,242 ha | +11.4% |
| 1979 | 353,650 ha | -2.4% |
| 1980 | 367,467 ha | +3.9% |
| 1981 | 382,581 ha | +4.1% |
| 1982 | 375,342 ha | -1.9% |
| 1983 | 329,426 ha | -12.2% |
| 1984 | 371,544 ha | +12.8% |
| 1985 | 401,418 ha | +8.0% |
| 1986 | 373,002 ha | -7.1% |
| 1987 | 372,394 ha | -0.2% |
| 1988 | 374,186 ha | +0.5% |
| 1989 | 386,995 ha | +3.4% |
| 1990 | 371,705 ha | -4.0% |
| 1991 | 445,494 ha | +19.9% |
| 1992 | 845,226 ha | +89.7% |
| 1993 | 901,385 ha | +6.6% |
| 1994 | 880,753 ha | -2.3% |
| 1995 | 889,791 ha | +1.0% |
| 1996 | 934,496 ha | +5.0% |
| 1997 | 992,065 ha | +6.2% |
| 1998 | 1.02 million ha | +3.0% |
| 1999 | 1.06 million ha | +3.5% |
| 2000 | 1.19 million ha | +12.7% |
| 2001 | 1.23 million ha | +2.9% |
| 2002 | 1.12 million ha | -8.5% |
| 2003 | 1.23 million ha | +9.8% |
| 2004 | 1.29 million ha | +4.3% |
| 2005 | 1.29 million ha | +0.6% |
| 2006 | 1.31 million ha | +1.1% |
| 2007 | 1.34 million ha | +2.5% |
| 2008 | 1.29 million ha | -3.3% |
| 2009 | 1.40 million ha | +8.2% |
| 2010 | 1.43 million ha | +2.1% |
| 2011 | 1.40 million ha | -2.1% |
| 2012 | 1.45 million ha | +3.7% |
| 2013 | 1.50 million ha | +3.4% |
| 2014 | 1.27 million ha | -15.7% |
| 2015 | 1.35 million ha | +6.9% |
| 2016 | 1.45 million ha | +6.8% |
| 2017 | 1.49 million ha | +2.8% |
| 2018 | 1.51 million ha | +1.8% |
| 2019 | 1.53 million ha | +1.1% |
| 2020 | 1.54 million ha | +0.5% |
| 2021 | 1.65 million ha | +7.4% |
| 2022 | 1.68 million ha | +1.8% |
| 2023 | 1.70 million ha | +1.1% |
| 2024 | 1.74 million ha | +2.5% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Potatoes — Area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | +89.7% | 445,494 ha | 845,226 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 228,208 ha | 217,695 ha | 241,087 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 300,223 ha | 230,554 ha | 362,242 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 373,436 ha | 329,426 ha | 401,418 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 834,094 ha | 371,705 ha | 1.06 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1.27 million ha | 1.12 million ha | 1.40 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.44 million ha | 1.27 million ha | 1.53 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.66 million ha | 1.54 million ha | 1.74 million ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)
- 6 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 128,911 ha compare
- 6 Russian Federation 1.05 million ha compare
- 7 Bangladesh 456,979 ha compare
- 7 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 90,519 ha compare
- 8 Pakistan 338,715 ha compare
- 8 United Republic of Tanzania 64,702 ha compare
- 9 Peru 337,281 ha compare
- 9 Syrian Arab Republic 28,124 ha compare
- 10 Ethiopia 332,146 ha compare
- 10 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 24,254 ha compare
- 11 Democratic Republic of the Congo 23,914 ha compare
- 11 Nigeria 327,188 ha compare
- 12 Republic of Moldova 22,430 ha compare
- 12 Yugoslav SFR 284,512 ha compare
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- Cattle — Stocks, annual growth rate 3.3 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cattle fat, unrendered — Production, annual growth rate 1.91 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cattle fat, unrendered — Producing Animals/Slaughtered, annual growth 0.3266 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)?
- Potatoes — area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) was 1.74 million ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — area harvested recorded in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 1.74 million ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest potatoes — area harvested recorded in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 217,695 ha in 1968.
- How does Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) rank for potatoes — area harvested?
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) ranks 9th out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 37.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 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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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.