Potatoes — Yield in Ireland
Ireland: Potatoes — Yield was 39,606 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Ireland, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for potatoes — yield in Ireland is 39,606 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.9% on the previous year and down 1.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Ireland peaked at 45,633 kg/ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 19,000 kg/ha, in 1981.
Ireland ranks 13th of 166 countries on this measure, 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 | 24,802 kg/ha | 20,684 kg/ha | 27,396 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 25,884 kg/ha | 22,244 kg/ha | 28,660 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 21,867 kg/ha | 19,000 kg/ha | 24,669 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 27,965 kg/ha | 24,897 kg/ha | 31,943 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 33,708 kg/ha | 27,549 kg/ha | 41,519 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 37,674 kg/ha | 25,778 kg/ha | 44,931 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 40,317 kg/ha | 33,763 kg/ha | 45,633 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Ireland
More agriculture & rural data for Ireland
- Agriculture share gdp 1.06 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.06 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2024)
- Rural population 35.4% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.0% (2025)
- Rural population 1.94 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 7.63 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 0 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Ireland?
- Potatoes — yield in Ireland was 39,606 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Ireland?
- The highest recorded value was 45,633 kg/ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Ireland?
- The lowest recorded value was 19,000 kg/ha in 1981.
- How does Ireland rank for potatoes — yield?
- Ireland ranks 13th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Ireland?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ireland 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.