Potatoes — Production in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs): Potatoes — Production was 26.13 million t in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Potatoes — Production in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) recorded 26.13 million t for potatoes — production in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.3% on the previous year and up 34.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — production in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) peaked at 26.13 million t in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1.69 million t, in 1961.
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 11th 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 — Production in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1.69 million t | — |
| 1962 | 1.69 million t | +0.1% |
| 1963 | 1.74 million t | +3.0% |
| 1964 | 1.70 million t | -2.4% |
| 1965 | 1.80 million t | +6.5% |
| 1966 | 1.84 million t | +2.1% |
| 1967 | 1.96 million t | +6.5% |
| 1968 | 1.92 million t | -2.0% |
| 1969 | 2.00 million t | +4.0% |
| 1970 | 2.07 million t | +3.8% |
| 1971 | 2.18 million t | +5.1% |
| 1972 | 2.30 million t | +5.5% |
| 1973 | 2.52 million t | +9.5% |
| 1974 | 2.56 million t | +1.4% |
| 1975 | 2.82 million t | +10.2% |
| 1976 | 3.31 million t | +17.6% |
| 1977 | 3.11 million t | -6.0% |
| 1978 | 3.42 million t | +9.8% |
| 1979 | 3.43 million t | +0.2% |
| 1980 | 3.40 million t | -0.7% |
| 1981 | 3.73 million t | +9.8% |
| 1982 | 4.11 million t | +10.2% |
| 1983 | 4.16 million t | +1.2% |
| 1984 | 3.96 million t | -4.9% |
| 1985 | 4.43 million t | +12.1% |
| 1986 | 4.46 million t | +0.7% |
| 1987 | 4.16 million t | -6.9% |
| 1988 | 4.31 million t | +3.7% |
| 1989 | 5.26 million t | +22.0% |
| 1990 | 5.43 million t | +3.3% |
| 1991 | 6.00 million t | +10.6% |
| 1992 | 6.58 million t | +9.6% |
| 1993 | 6.21 million t | -5.6% |
| 1994 | 6.60 million t | +6.3% |
| 1995 | 6.86 million t | +3.9% |
| 1996 | 7.30 million t | +6.5% |
| 1997 | 8.36 million t | +14.5% |
| 1998 | 9.47 million t | +13.2% |
| 1999 | 10.99 million t | +16.1% |
| 2000 | 12.42 million t | +13.0% |
| 2001 | 14.40 million t | +16.0% |
| 2002 | 12.87 million t | -10.6% |
| 2003 | 14.47 million t | +12.4% |
| 2004 | 15.04 million t | +3.9% |
| 2005 | 16.07 million t | +6.9% |
| 2006 | 17.05 million t | +6.1% |
| 2007 | 17.46 million t | +2.4% |
| 2008 | 18.16 million t | +4.0% |
| 2009 | 19.07 million t | +5.1% |
| 2010 | 22.10 million t | +15.9% |
| 2011 | 22.25 million t | +0.7% |
| 2012 | 23.56 million t | +5.9% |
| 2013 | 24.84 million t | +5.4% |
| 2014 | 19.44 million t | -21.8% |
| 2015 | 21.16 million t | +8.9% |
| 2016 | 20.44 million t | -3.4% |
| 2017 | 21.02 million t | +2.8% |
| 2018 | 23.40 million t | +11.3% |
| 2019 | 23.81 million t | +1.8% |
| 2020 | 23.78 million t | -0.1% |
| 2021 | 24.87 million t | +4.6% |
| 2022 | 24.99 million t | +0.5% |
| 2023 | 26.05 million t | +4.2% |
| 2024 | 26.13 million t | +0.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1.81 million t | 1.69 million t | 2.00 million t | 9 |
| 1970s | 2.77 million t | 2.07 million t | 3.43 million t | 10 |
| 1980s | 4.20 million t | 3.40 million t | 5.26 million t | 10 |
| 1990s | 7.38 million t | 5.43 million t | 10.99 million t | 10 |
| 2000s | 15.70 million t | 12.42 million t | 19.07 million t | 10 |
| 2010s | 22.20 million t | 19.44 million t | 24.84 million t | 10 |
| 2020s | 25.16 million t | 23.78 million t | 26.13 million t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — production in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Potatoes — production in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) was 26.13 million t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — production recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 26.13 million t in 2024.
- What is the lowest potatoes — production recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 1.69 million t in 1961.
- How does Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) rank for potatoes — production?
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 11th out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — production rising or falling in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 34.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Potatoes — Production. 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.