Potatoes — Production in Melanesia
Melanesia: Potatoes — Production was 3,371 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Production in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Melanesia recorded 3,371 t for potatoes — production in 2024.
The figure is down 19.5% on the previous year and up 27.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — production in Melanesia peaked at 4,190 t in 1992 and was at its lowest, 1,185 t, in 1965.
That places Melanesia 146th out of 167 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,319 t | 1,185 t | 1,759 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,140 t | 1,306 t | 2,664 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,562 t | 1,932 t | 3,801 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,884 t | 1,655 t | 4,190 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,501 t | 1,788 t | 3,230 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,916 t | 1,538 t | 3,809 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,318 t | 1,628 t | 4,189 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
- 143 Iceland 5,514 t compare
- 144 Comoros 3,642 t compare
- 145 Botswana 3,632 t compare
- 147 Mauritania 2,393 t compare
- 148 Cabo Verde 2,212 t compare
- 149 New Caledonia 2,105 t compare
More agriculture & rural data for Melanesia
- Fat of pigs — Production 6,015 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 89,605 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 41 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 4,250 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 374.22 t (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 2.18 million An (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 504 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — production in Melanesia?
- Potatoes — production in Melanesia was 3,371 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — production recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 4,190 t in 1992.
- What is the lowest potatoes — production recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,185 t in 1965.
- How does Melanesia rank for potatoes — production?
- Melanesia ranks 146th out of 167 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — production rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 27.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Melanesia 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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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.