Potatoes — Yield in Canada
Canada: Potatoes — Yield was 41,658 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Canada, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Canada recorded 41,658 kg/ha for potatoes — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 0.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Canada peaked at 42,709 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 9,664 kg/ha, in 1991.
That places Canada 9th out of 166 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 18,157 kg/ha | 16,096 kg/ha | 19,468 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 21,040 kg/ha | 18,735 kg/ha | 24,330 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 24,585 kg/ha | 22,615 kg/ha | 26,627 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 12,401 kg/ha | 9,664 kg/ha | 25,099 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 11,983 kg/ha | 10,270 kg/ha | 13,048 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 39,533 kg/ha | 36,646 kg/ha | 42,709 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 40,173 kg/ha | 36,748 kg/ha | 41,658 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Canada
- Agriculture share gdp 1.93 (2022)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.93 (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
- Rural population 17.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.1% (2025)
- Rural population 7.13 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.9% (2022)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 42.53 billion current US$ (2022)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 27,780 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Canada?
- Potatoes — yield in Canada was 41,658 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Canada?
- The highest recorded value was 42,709 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Canada?
- The lowest recorded value was 9,664 kg/ha in 1991.
- How does Canada rank for potatoes — yield?
- Canada ranks 9th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Canada?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Canada 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.