Potatoes — Yield in China, mainland
China, mainland: Potatoes — Yield was 20,805 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in China, mainland, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for potatoes — yield in China, mainland is 20,805 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 1.8% on the previous year and up 21.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in China, mainland peaked at 22,174 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 8,000 kg/ha, in 1963.
China, mainland ranks 75th of 153 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Potatoes — Yield in China, mainland, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 9,923 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 9,200 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1963 | 8,000 kg/ha | -13.0% |
| 1964 | 8,750 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 1965 | 9,412 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1966 | 9,000 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1967 | 8,950 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1968 | 8,900 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1969 | 10,158 kg/ha | +14.1% |
| 1970 | 10,750 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1971 | 10,476 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1972 | 10,217 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1973 | 13,500 kg/ha | +32.1% |
| 1974 | 13,000 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1975 | 11,571 kg/ha | -11.0% |
| 1976 | 11,300 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1977 | 13,238 kg/ha | +17.1% |
| 1978 | 12,748 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1979 | 11,136 kg/ha | -12.6% |
| 1980 | 11,244 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1981 | 10,279 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 1982 | 10,890 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1983 | 11,375 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1984 | 11,654 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1985 | 10,795 kg/ha | -7.4% |
| 1986 | 10,000 kg/ha | -7.4% |
| 1987 | 10,306 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1988 | 11,511 kg/ha | +11.7% |
| 1989 | 11,002 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1990 | 11,317 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1991 | 10,560 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 1992 | 12,615 kg/ha | +19.5% |
| 1993 | 14,870 kg/ha | +17.9% |
| 1994 | 13,655 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 1995 | 13,381 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1996 | 14,196 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1997 | 14,960 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1998 | 15,890 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1999 | 12,700 kg/ha | -20.1% |
| 2000 | 14,032 kg/ha | +10.5% |
| 2001 | 13,683 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2002 | 15,038 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 2003 | 15,058 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 15,708 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2005 | 14,523 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 2006 | 15,313 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2007 | 14,624 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2008 | 15,178 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2009 | 14,413 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2010 | 15,664 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 2011 | 16,278 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2012 | 16,768 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2013 | 17,088 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2014 | 17,138 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2015 | 17,308 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2016 | 17,685 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2017 | 18,206 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2018 | 18,970 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2019 | 22,174 kg/ha | +16.9% |
| 2020 | 19,859 kg/ha | -10.4% |
| 2021 | 20,367 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2022 | 20,353 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2023 | 20,434 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2024 | 20,805 kg/ha | +1.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,144 kg/ha | 8,000 kg/ha | 10,158 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,794 kg/ha | 10,217 kg/ha | 13,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,906 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 11,654 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 13,414 kg/ha | 10,560 kg/ha | 15,890 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 14,757 kg/ha | 13,683 kg/ha | 15,708 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 17,728 kg/ha | 15,664 kg/ha | 22,174 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 20,364 kg/ha | 19,859 kg/ha | 20,805 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in China, mainland?
- Potatoes — yield in China, mainland was 20,805 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in China, mainland?
- The highest recorded value was 22,174 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in China, mainland?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,000 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does China, mainland rank for potatoes — yield?
- China, mainland ranks 75th out of 153 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in China, mainland?
- Over the last ten years it is up 21.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this China, mainland 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.