Potatoes — Yield in European Union (27)
European Union (27): Potatoes — Yield was 36,697 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in European Union (27), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, potatoes — yield in European Union (27) stood at 36,697 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.3% on the previous year and up 5.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in European Union (27) peaked at 36,697 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 15,448 kg/ha, in 1962.
That places European Union (27) 7th out of 33 groups 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 | 17,111 kg/ha | 15,448 kg/ha | 19,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 19,097 kg/ha | 17,220 kg/ha | 21,230 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 20,148 kg/ha | 16,082 kg/ha | 21,918 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 21,390 kg/ha | 18,479 kg/ha | 23,901 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 25,779 kg/ha | 22,578 kg/ha | 28,862 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 31,413 kg/ha | 28,234 kg/ha | 34,844 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 35,998 kg/ha | 34,856 kg/ha | 36,697 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near European Union (27)
- 4 Belgium-Luxembourg 45,136 kg/ha compare
- 5 Germany 45,015 kg/ha compare
- 6 Australia and New Zealand 43,061 kg/ha compare
- 7 France 42,436 kg/ha compare
- 8 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 41,703 kg/ha compare
- 9 Canada 41,658 kg/ha compare
- 10 Australia 40,784 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for European Union (27)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 100,090 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 223.89 million An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 21.26 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 95 kg/An (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 132.13 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 16.90 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 41,140 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 232,110 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 21,250 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 669,430 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in European Union (27)?
- Potatoes — yield in European Union (27) was 36,697 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in European Union (27)?
- The highest recorded value was 36,697 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in European Union (27)?
- The lowest recorded value was 15,448 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does European Union (27) rank for potatoes — yield?
- European Union (27) ranks 7th out of 33 groups with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in European Union (27)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this European Union (27) 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.