Potatoes — Yield in Belize
Belize: Potatoes — Yield was 8,942 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Belize, 1989–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for potatoes — yield in Belize is 8,942 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 30.0% on the previous year and down 24.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Belize peaked at 23,000 kg/ha in 2013 and was at its lowest, 6,063 kg/ha, in 2003.
That places Belize 135th out of 153 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 36 years of available data.
Potatoes — Yield in Belize, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 9,200 kg/ha | — |
| 1990 | 9,038 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1991 | 9,154 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1992 | 8,889 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1993 | 8,889 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 8,889 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 8,826 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1996 | 8,852 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1997 | 7,828 kg/ha | -11.6% |
| 1998 | 10,634 kg/ha | +35.9% |
| 1999 | 10,767 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2000 | 10,748 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2001 | 10,495 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2002 | 7,488 kg/ha | -28.7% |
| 2003 | 6,063 kg/ha | -19.0% |
| 2004 | 13,698 kg/ha | +125.9% |
| 2005 | 11,418 kg/ha | -16.6% |
| 2006 | 11,480 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2007 | 7,587 kg/ha | -33.9% |
| 2008 | 12,910 kg/ha | +70.2% |
| 2009 | 13,481 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 2010 | 9,122 kg/ha | -32.3% |
| 2011 | 11,000 kg/ha | +20.6% |
| 2012 | 12,205 kg/ha | +11.0% |
| 2013 | 23,000 kg/ha | +88.4% |
| 2014 | 11,899 kg/ha | -48.3% |
| 2015 | 11,678 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2016 | 9,960 kg/ha | -14.7% |
| 2017 | 13,347 kg/ha | +34.0% |
| 2018 | 12,031 kg/ha | -9.9% |
| 2019 | 12,169 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2020 | 12,596 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2021 | 14,090 kg/ha | +11.9% |
| 2022 | 7,048 kg/ha | -50.0% |
| 2023 | 12,767 kg/ha | +81.2% |
| 2024 | 8,942 kg/ha | -30.0% |
Belize compared with similar countries
- Belize's 8,942 kg/ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 19,409 kg/ha, 46% of the median. (40 countries reporting)
- Belize's 8,942 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 23,008 kg/ha, 39% of the median. (22 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Potatoes — Yield in Belize 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | +125.9% | 6,063 kg/ha | 13,698 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 9,200 kg/ha | 9,200 kg/ha | 9,200 kg/ha | 1 |
| 1990s | 9,177 kg/ha | 7,828 kg/ha | 10,767 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,537 kg/ha | 6,063 kg/ha | 13,698 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 12,641 kg/ha | 9,122 kg/ha | 23,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,088 kg/ha | 7,048 kg/ha | 14,090 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Belize
- 132 Benin 9,500 kg/ha compare
- 133 French Polynesia 9,358 kg/ha compare
- 134 Chad 9,120 kg/ha compare
- 136 Yugoslav SFR 8,876 kg/ha
- 137 Congo 8,624 kg/ha compare
- 138 Ethiopia PDR 8,000 kg/ha
More agriculture & rural data for Belize
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.52 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0795 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 610.5 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.74 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5844 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 7.9% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 7.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Belize?
- Potatoes — yield in Belize was 8,942 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Belize?
- The highest recorded value was 23,000 kg/ha in 2013.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Belize?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,063 kg/ha in 2003.
- How does Belize rank for potatoes — yield?
- Belize ranks 135th out of 153 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Belize?
- Over the last ten years it is down 24.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Belize 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.