Potatoes — Yield in Eswatini
Eswatini: Potatoes — Yield was 2,097 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Potatoes — Yield in Eswatini, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Eswatini recorded 2,097 kg/ha for potatoes — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.9% on the previous year and down 1.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Eswatini peaked at 3,208 kg/ha in 1961 and was at its lowest, 1,590 kg/ha, in 1962.
Eswatini ranks 162nd of 166 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,350 kg/ha | 1,590 kg/ha | 3,208 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,360 kg/ha | 2,000 kg/ha | 3,094 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,066 kg/ha | 1,989 kg/ha | 2,167 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,960 kg/ha | 1,935 kg/ha | 2,016 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,006 kg/ha | 1,990 kg/ha | 2,029 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,086 kg/ha | 1,973 kg/ha | 2,158 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,103 kg/ha | 2,078 kg/ha | 2,128 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eswatini
- 159 Botswana 3,852 kg/ha compare
- 160 Nigeria 3,755 kg/ha compare
- 161 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 3,206 kg/ha compare
- 163 Paraguay 2,089 kg/ha compare
- 164 Burkina Faso 1,924 kg/ha compare
- 165 Timor-Leste 908.8 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Eswatini
- Agriculture share gdp 6.41 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.41 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 6.2% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2023)
- Rural population 73.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.4% (2025)
- Rural population 920,507 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 330.70 million current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 30,363 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Eswatini?
- Potatoes — yield in Eswatini was 2,097 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Eswatini?
- The highest recorded value was 3,208 kg/ha in 1961.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Eswatini?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,590 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Eswatini rank for potatoes — yield?
- Eswatini ranks 162nd out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Eswatini?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Eswatini 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.