Potatoes — Yield in Americas
Americas: Potatoes — Yield was 30,472 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Americas, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Americas recorded 30,472 kg/ha for potatoes — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.9% on the previous year and up 9.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Americas peaked at 30,472 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 12,233 kg/ha, in 1964.
Americas ranks 9th of 33 groups on this measure, in the top 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 | 13,298 kg/ha | 12,233 kg/ha | 14,092 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 15,671 kg/ha | 14,265 kg/ha | 16,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 18,493 kg/ha | 16,118 kg/ha | 19,922 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 19,969 kg/ha | 18,573 kg/ha | 20,806 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 21,962 kg/ha | 21,008 kg/ha | 22,731 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 27,857 kg/ha | 26,114 kg/ha | 29,467 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 29,767 kg/ha | 29,230 kg/ha | 30,472 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Americas
More agriculture & rural data for Americas
- Tomatoes — Production 25.19 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Production 32.73 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.37 million ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 1.02 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532,819 ha (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 267.48 million An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 25.17 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 94 kg/An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 63,435 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 397,122 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Americas?
- Potatoes — yield in Americas was 30,472 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 30,472 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 12,233 kg/ha in 1964.
- How does Americas rank for potatoes — yield?
- Americas ranks 9th out of 33 groups with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Americas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Potatoes — Yield. 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.