Potatoes — Yield in Egypt
Egypt: Potatoes — Yield was 30,094 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Egypt, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for potatoes — yield in Egypt is 30,094 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 4.3% on the previous year and up 12.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Egypt peaked at 31,437 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 13,934 kg/ha, in 1978.
That places Egypt 38th out of 166 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 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 | 16,251 kg/ha | 14,461 kg/ha | 18,029 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 16,666 kg/ha | 13,934 kg/ha | 17,921 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 19,763 kg/ha | 17,278 kg/ha | 22,560 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 21,172 kg/ha | 20,205 kg/ha | 23,292 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 24,859 kg/ha | 23,593 kg/ha | 26,424 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 27,159 kg/ha | 25,921 kg/ha | 29,288 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 29,041 kg/ha | 24,620 kg/ha | 31,437 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Egypt
- Agriculture share gdp 16.55 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.55 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.1% (2024)
- Rural population 57.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.4% (2025)
- Rural population 67.58 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 60.46 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 1.25 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Egypt?
- Potatoes — yield in Egypt was 30,094 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Egypt?
- The highest recorded value was 31,437 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Egypt?
- The lowest recorded value was 13,934 kg/ha in 1978.
- How does Egypt rank for potatoes — yield?
- Egypt ranks 38th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Egypt?
- Over the last ten years it is up 12.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Egypt 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.