Potatoes — Yield in Congo
Congo: Potatoes — Yield was 8,624 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Congo, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, potatoes — yield in Congo stood at 8,624 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 0.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Congo peaked at 8,998 kg/ha in 2000 and was at its lowest, 1,600 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Congo 145th out of 166 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,052 kg/ha | 1,600 kg/ha | 6,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,196 kg/ha | 4,680 kg/ha | 8,186 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,445 kg/ha | 3,606 kg/ha | 8,734 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,622 kg/ha | 8,185 kg/ha | 8,987 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,621 kg/ha | 7,679 kg/ha | 8,998 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,606 kg/ha | 8,570 kg/ha | 8,632 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,624 kg/ha | 8,622 kg/ha | 8,626 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Congo
- 142 Belize 8,942 kg/ha compare
- 143 Yugoslav SFR 8,876 kg/ha compare
- 144 United Republic of Tanzania 8,669 kg/ha compare
- 146 Ethiopia PDR 8,000 kg/ha compare
- 147 Rwanda 7,916 kg/ha compare
- 148 Angola 7,886 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Congo
- Agriculture share gdp 10.11 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 10.11 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.4% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
- Rural population 35.9% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.7% (2025)
- Rural population 2.33 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 10.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.65 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 86,254 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Congo?
- Potatoes — yield in Congo was 8,624 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Congo?
- The highest recorded value was 8,998 kg/ha in 2000.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Congo?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,600 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Congo rank for potatoes — yield?
- Congo ranks 145th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Congo?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Congo 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.