Potatoes — Yield in Italy
Italy: Potatoes — Yield was 28,778 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Italy, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for potatoes — yield in Italy is 28,778 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 3.4% on the previous year and up 10.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Italy peaked at 30,299 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 9,453 kg/ha, in 1962.
That places Italy 44th out of 166 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 11,162 kg/ha | 9,453 kg/ha | 12,981 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 15,735 kg/ha | 12,805 kg/ha | 17,895 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 18,236 kg/ha | 17,047 kg/ha | 19,716 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 22,421 kg/ha | 19,162 kg/ha | 24,342 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 24,406 kg/ha | 21,770 kg/ha | 25,630 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 26,675 kg/ha | 24,916 kg/ha | 28,593 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 28,886 kg/ha | 27,843 kg/ha | 30,299 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Italy
- 41 Uzbekistan 29,802 kg/ha compare
- 42 Hungary 29,478 kg/ha compare
- 43 Czechia 28,814 kg/ha compare
- 45 Lao People's Democratic Republic 28,752 kg/ha compare
- 46 Dominican Republic 28,726 kg/ha compare
- 47 Slovakia 28,297 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Italy
- Agriculture share gdp 2.07 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 2.07 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.5% (2024)
- Rural population 30.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.3% (2025)
- Rural population 17.86 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 52.70 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 0 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Italy?
- Potatoes — yield in Italy was 28,778 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Italy?
- The highest recorded value was 30,299 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Italy?
- The lowest recorded value was 9,453 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Italy rank for potatoes — yield?
- Italy ranks 44th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Italy?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Italy 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.