Potatoes — Yield in Cameroon
Cameroon: Potatoes — Yield was 10,617 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Potatoes — Yield in Cameroon, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, potatoes — yield in Cameroon stood at 10,617 kg/ha.
That represents a change of down 0.8% on the previous year and down 29.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Cameroon peaked at 15,393 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 1,311 kg/ha, in 1985.
Cameroon ranks 135th of 166 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,883 kg/ha | 2,264 kg/ha | 3,902 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,611 kg/ha | 2,419 kg/ha | 2,829 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,846 kg/ha | 1,311 kg/ha | 2,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,977 kg/ha | 1,614 kg/ha | 6,003 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,513 kg/ha | 2,590 kg/ha | 5,904 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,092 kg/ha | 4,354 kg/ha | 15,393 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,624 kg/ha | 10,016 kg/ha | 10,964 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Cameroon
- Agriculture share gdp 16.85 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.85 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
- Rural population 44.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.0% (2025)
- Rural population 13.25 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.8% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.93 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 805,353 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Cameroon?
- Potatoes — yield in Cameroon was 10,617 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 15,393 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,311 kg/ha in 1985.
- How does Cameroon rank for potatoes — yield?
- Cameroon ranks 135th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is down 29.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Cameroon 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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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.