Potatoes — Yield in Ecuador
Ecuador: Potatoes — Yield was 16,158 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Ecuador, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for potatoes — yield in Ecuador is 16,158 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 11.0% on the previous year and up 27.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Ecuador peaked at 16,410 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 4,879 kg/ha, in 2002.
That places Ecuador 108th 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 | 9,008 kg/ha | 7,826 kg/ha | 11,026 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,928 kg/ha | 9,463 kg/ha | 12,861 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,795 kg/ha | 6,309 kg/ha | 12,391 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,052 kg/ha | 6,840 kg/ha | 9,308 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,763 kg/ha | 4,879 kg/ha | 9,725 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,141 kg/ha | 7,313 kg/ha | 14,260 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 14,795 kg/ha | 12,822 kg/ha | 16,410 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Ecuador
- 105 Nepal 16,651 kg/ha compare
- 106 North Macedonia 16,618 kg/ha compare
- 107 Czechoslovakia 16,237 kg/ha compare
- 109 Philippines 16,105 kg/ha compare
- 110 Georgia 15,821 kg/ha compare
- 111 Myanmar 15,634 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Ecuador
- Agriculture share gdp 9.7 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.7 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
- Rural population 36.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.4% (2025)
- Rural population 6.70 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 12.64 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 7.59 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Ecuador?
- Potatoes — yield in Ecuador was 16,158 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Ecuador?
- The highest recorded value was 16,410 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Ecuador?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,879 kg/ha in 2002.
- How does Ecuador rank for potatoes — yield?
- Ecuador ranks 108th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Ecuador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 27.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ecuador 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.