Potatoes — Yield in Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand: Potatoes — Yield was 43,061 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Australia and New Zealand, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, potatoes — yield in Australia and New Zealand stood at 43,061 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.2% on the previous year and up 2.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Australia and New Zealand peaked at 43,061 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 14,350 kg/ha, in 1961.
Australia and New Zealand ranks 6th of 153 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16,820 kg/ha | 14,350 kg/ha | 19,921 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 21,747 kg/ha | 19,873 kg/ha | 23,673 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 26,468 kg/ha | 24,058 kg/ha | 28,333 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 32,135 kg/ha | 29,508 kg/ha | 34,274 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 37,172 kg/ha | 31,487 kg/ha | 39,908 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 41,010 kg/ha | 38,390 kg/ha | 42,764 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 42,807 kg/ha | 42,558 kg/ha | 43,061 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Australia and New Zealand
More agriculture & rural data for Australia and New Zealand
- Tomatoes — Yield 86,030 kg/ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 368,735 t (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 21,661 t (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 6.36 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 3,605 t (2005)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 1,417 ha (2005)
- Tomatoes — Production 491,636 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 6.36 million An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 80 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 511,939 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Australia and New Zealand?
- Potatoes — yield in Australia and New Zealand was 43,061 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 43,061 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 14,350 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Australia and New Zealand rank for potatoes — yield?
- Australia and New Zealand ranks 6th out of 153 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Australia and New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Australia and New Zealand 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.