Potatoes — Yield in China
China: Potatoes — Yield was 20,806 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in China, 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 is 20,806 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.8% on the previous year and up 21.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in China peaked at 22,175 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 8,000 kg/ha, in 1963.
China ranks 78th of 166 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,145 kg/ha | 8,000 kg/ha | 10,160 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,793 kg/ha | 10,219 kg/ha | 13,499 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,910 kg/ha | 10,006 kg/ha | 11,658 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 13,418 kg/ha | 10,565 kg/ha | 15,892 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 14,760 kg/ha | 13,684 kg/ha | 15,711 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 17,731 kg/ha | 15,669 kg/ha | 22,175 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 20,365 kg/ha | 19,859 kg/ha | 20,806 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near China
- 75 Azerbaijan 20,990 kg/ha compare
- 76 Mauritius 20,956 kg/ha compare
- 77 Zambia 20,945 kg/ha compare
- 79 China, mainland 20,805 kg/ha compare
- 80 Caribbean 20,136 kg/ha compare
- 81 Tajikistan 19,963 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for China
- Agriculture share gdp 6.66 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.66 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.7% (2024)
- Rural population 33.7% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.5% (2025)
- Rural population 473.41 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.30 trillion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 12.10 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in China?
- Potatoes — yield in China was 20,806 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in China?
- The highest recorded value was 22,175 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in China?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,000 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does China rank for potatoes — yield?
- China ranks 78th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in China?
- Over the last ten years it is up 21.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this China 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.