Potatoes — Yield in Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Potatoes — Yield was 27,548 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Costa Rica, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Costa Rica recorded 27,548 kg/ha for potatoes — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 5.2% on the previous year and up 21.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Costa Rica peaked at 27,548 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 9,032 kg/ha, in 1981.
That places Costa Rica 49th out of 166 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,906 kg/ha | 9,634 kg/ha | 10,178 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,585 kg/ha | 9,442 kg/ha | 11,655 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 14,324 kg/ha | 9,032 kg/ha | 20,700 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 22,677 kg/ha | 19,875 kg/ha | 24,857 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 24,666 kg/ha | 23,120 kg/ha | 26,516 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 22,689 kg/ha | 16,442 kg/ha | 25,576 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 24,881 kg/ha | 17,348 kg/ha | 27,548 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Costa Rica
- Agriculture share gdp 3.37 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 3.37 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2024)
- Rural population 20.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.6% (2025)
- Rural population 1.04 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.46 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.63 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Costa Rica?
- Potatoes — yield in Costa Rica was 27,548 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The highest recorded value was 27,548 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The lowest recorded value was 9,032 kg/ha in 1981.
- How does Costa Rica rank for potatoes — yield?
- Costa Rica ranks 49th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Costa Rica?
- Over the last ten years it is up 21.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Costa Rica 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.