Potatoes — Yield in El Salvador
El Salvador: Potatoes — Yield was 32,312 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in El Salvador, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
El Salvador recorded 32,312 kg/ha for potatoes — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 1.0% on the previous year and up 23.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in El Salvador peaked at 42,605 kg/ha in 2013 and was at its lowest, 5,714 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places El Salvador 28th 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 | 7,136 kg/ha | 5,714 kg/ha | 8,200 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 13,726 kg/ha | 7,000 kg/ha | 18,300 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 12,378 kg/ha | 9,500 kg/ha | 19,954 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 15,764 kg/ha | 13,929 kg/ha | 21,554 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 23,447 kg/ha | 21,848 kg/ha | 28,879 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 27,966 kg/ha | 19,632 kg/ha | 42,605 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 31,405 kg/ha | 27,516 kg/ha | 32,738 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for El Salvador
- Agriculture share gdp 4.4 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 4.4 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 24.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.4% (2025)
- Rural population 1.56 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.62 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 20,054 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in El Salvador?
- Potatoes — yield in El Salvador was 32,312 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in El Salvador?
- The highest recorded value was 42,605 kg/ha in 2013.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in El Salvador?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,714 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does El Salvador rank for potatoes — yield?
- El Salvador ranks 28th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in El Salvador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 23.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this El Salvador 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.