Potatoes — Yield in Germany
Germany: Potatoes — Yield was 45,015 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Germany, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Germany recorded 45,015 kg/ha for potatoes — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 2.7% on the previous year and down 5.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Germany peaked at 47,415 kg/ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 16,387 kg/ha, in 1976.
That places Germany 5th out of 166 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 21,945 kg/ha | 18,059 kg/ha | 25,381 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 22,019 kg/ha | 16,387 kg/ha | 25,685 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 25,336 kg/ha | 18,240 kg/ha | 29,717 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 34,248 kg/ha | 25,776 kg/ha | 39,254 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 41,090 kg/ha | 34,518 kg/ha | 44,304 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 42,704 kg/ha | 35,372 kg/ha | 47,415 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 43,119 kg/ha | 40,103 kg/ha | 45,015 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Germany
- 2 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 46,581 kg/ha compare
- 3 Denmark 45,835 kg/ha compare
- 4 Belgium-Luxembourg 45,136 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
More agriculture & rural data for Germany
- Agriculture share gdp 0.8714 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 0.8714 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.1% (2024)
- Rural population 17.9% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 14.91 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 0.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 44.02 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 0 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Germany?
- Potatoes — yield in Germany was 45,015 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Germany?
- The highest recorded value was 47,415 kg/ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Germany?
- The lowest recorded value was 16,387 kg/ha in 1976.
- How does Germany rank for potatoes — yield?
- Germany ranks 5th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Germany?
- Over the last ten years it is down 5.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Germany 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.