Potatoes — Yield in Bhutan
Bhutan: Potatoes — Yield was 12,290 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Bhutan, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for potatoes — yield in Bhutan is 12,290 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 5.6% on the previous year and up 38.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Bhutan peaked at 13,852 kg/ha in 2004 and was at its lowest, 6,299 kg/ha, in 1964.
That places Bhutan 129th out of 166 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 | 6,378 kg/ha | 6,299 kg/ha | 6,498 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,548 kg/ha | 6,441 kg/ha | 6,714 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 8,247 kg/ha | 6,667 kg/ha | 12,195 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,936 kg/ha | 7,925 kg/ha | 11,983 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,422 kg/ha | 7,097 kg/ha | 13,852 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,906 kg/ha | 8,252 kg/ha | 11,737 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,238 kg/ha | 9,838 kg/ha | 12,290 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Bhutan
- Agriculture share gdp 13.68 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 13.68 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.0% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2025)
- Rural population 56.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 450,682 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 13.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 489.68 million current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2,050 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Bhutan?
- Potatoes — yield in Bhutan was 12,290 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Bhutan?
- The highest recorded value was 13,852 kg/ha in 2004.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Bhutan?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,299 kg/ha in 1964.
- How does Bhutan rank for potatoes — yield?
- Bhutan ranks 129th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Bhutan?
- Over the last ten years it is up 38.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Bhutan 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.