Potatoes — Yield in Caribbean
Caribbean: Potatoes — Yield was 20,136 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Caribbean, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Caribbean recorded 20,136 kg/ha for potatoes — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 6.5% on the previous year and up 2.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Caribbean peaked at 24,942 kg/ha in 2000 and was at its lowest, 6,534 kg/ha, in 1971.
That places Caribbean 19th out of 28 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Potatoes — Yield in Caribbean, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 10,382 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 10,414 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1963 | 10,801 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1964 | 9,795 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 1965 | 10,242 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1966 | 10,446 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1967 | 10,743 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1968 | 13,304 kg/ha | +23.8% |
| 1969 | 9,409 kg/ha | -29.3% |
| 1970 | 7,372 kg/ha | -21.7% |
| 1971 | 6,534 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 1972 | 11,353 kg/ha | +73.8% |
| 1973 | 8,765 kg/ha | -22.8% |
| 1974 | 8,208 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 1975 | 10,701 kg/ha | +30.4% |
| 1976 | 12,248 kg/ha | +14.5% |
| 1977 | 11,760 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1978 | 16,140 kg/ha | +37.3% |
| 1979 | 14,180 kg/ha | -12.1% |
| 1980 | 15,926 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 1981 | 15,681 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1982 | 16,798 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1983 | 15,192 kg/ha | -9.6% |
| 1984 | 15,104 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1985 | 19,513 kg/ha | +29.2% |
| 1986 | 20,972 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1987 | 17,341 kg/ha | -17.3% |
| 1988 | 17,362 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1989 | 16,432 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1990 | 11,983 kg/ha | -27.1% |
| 1991 | 13,140 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 1992 | 15,807 kg/ha | +20.3% |
| 1993 | 15,797 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1994 | 12,972 kg/ha | -17.9% |
| 1995 | 18,557 kg/ha | +43.0% |
| 1996 | 23,307 kg/ha | +25.6% |
| 1997 | 17,646 kg/ha | -24.3% |
| 1998 | 15,678 kg/ha | -11.2% |
| 1999 | 21,775 kg/ha | +38.9% |
| 2000 | 24,942 kg/ha | +14.5% |
| 2001 | 23,630 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 2002 | 23,322 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2003 | 22,252 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 2004 | 24,231 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 2005 | 23,871 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2006 | 23,280 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2007 | 15,646 kg/ha | -32.8% |
| 2008 | 19,391 kg/ha | +23.9% |
| 2009 | 21,600 kg/ha | +11.4% |
| 2010 | 20,393 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 2011 | 20,906 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2012 | 19,561 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 2013 | 19,431 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2014 | 19,621 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2015 | 20,830 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 2016 | 20,375 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2017 | 20,703 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2018 | 20,564 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2019 | 20,199 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2020 | 20,070 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2021 | 19,747 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2022 | 18,632 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 2023 | 18,905 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2024 | 20,136 kg/ha | +6.5% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Potatoes — Yield in Caribbean 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | +73.8% | 6,534 kg/ha | 11,353 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,615 kg/ha | 9,409 kg/ha | 13,304 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,726 kg/ha | 6,534 kg/ha | 16,140 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 17,032 kg/ha | 15,104 kg/ha | 20,972 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 16,666 kg/ha | 11,983 kg/ha | 23,307 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 22,216 kg/ha | 15,646 kg/ha | 24,942 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 20,258 kg/ha | 19,431 kg/ha | 20,906 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 19,498 kg/ha | 18,632 kg/ha | 20,136 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Caribbean
- 16 Democratic Republic of the Congo 4,573 kg/ha compare
- 16 South Africa 37,951 kg/ha compare
- 17 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 3,206 kg/ha compare
- 17 Sweden 37,311 kg/ha compare
- 18 Palestine 36,594 kg/ha compare
- 18 Timor-Leste 908.8 kg/ha compare
- 19 Argentina 35,778 kg/ha compare
- 20 Israel 34,856 kg/ha compare
- 21 Switzerland 34,690 kg/ha compare
- 22 Chile 34,548 kg/ha compare
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- Agriculture — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 9.33 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cereals, primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 7.05 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 11.93 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 9.37 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 14.93 % change on previous year (2024)
- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 2.96 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat indigenous, total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 2.21 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Caribbean?
- Potatoes — yield in Caribbean was 20,136 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 24,942 kg/ha in 2000.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,534 kg/ha in 1971.
- How does Caribbean rank for potatoes — yield?
- Caribbean ranks 19th out of 28 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Caribbean 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.