Potatoes — Yield in Iraq
Iraq: Potatoes — Yield was 26,026 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Iraq, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for potatoes — yield in Iraq is 26,026 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.9% on the previous year and up 66.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Iraq peaked at 27,978 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 8,333 kg/ha, in 1974.
Iraq ranks 55th of 166 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,556 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 15,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,442 kg/ha | 8,333 kg/ha | 15,385 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 17,655 kg/ha | 14,133 kg/ha | 21,436 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 16,376 kg/ha | 13,803 kg/ha | 17,917 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 15,408 kg/ha | 10,569 kg/ha | 17,958 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 20,949 kg/ha | 13,471 kg/ha | 27,958 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 25,074 kg/ha | 21,458 kg/ha | 27,978 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Iraq
- Agriculture share gdp 3.41 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 3.41 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2016)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.1% (2014)
- Rural population 30.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.9% (2025)
- Rural population 14.13 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.68 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 2,340 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Iraq?
- Potatoes — yield in Iraq was 26,026 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Iraq?
- The highest recorded value was 27,978 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Iraq?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,333 kg/ha in 1974.
- How does Iraq rank for potatoes — yield?
- Iraq ranks 55th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Iraq?
- Over the last ten years it is up 66.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Iraq 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.