Potatoes — Yield in Kenya
Kenya: Potatoes — Yield was 9,684 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Kenya, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, potatoes — yield in Kenya stood at 9,684 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 0.3% on the previous year and down 31.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Kenya peaked at 22,428 kg/ha in 2010 and was at its lowest, 2,937 kg/ha, in 1984.
Kenya ranks 137th of 166 countries on this measure, in the bottom 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 | 7,106 kg/ha | 7,037 kg/ha | 7,185 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,261 kg/ha | 7,000 kg/ha | 7,755 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,726 kg/ha | 2,937 kg/ha | 9,430 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,191 kg/ha | 7,042 kg/ha | 11,749 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 14,176 kg/ha | 6,177 kg/ha | 21,482 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 14,137 kg/ha | 8,607 kg/ha | 22,428 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9,514 kg/ha | 7,912 kg/ha | 10,552 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Kenya
- Agriculture share gdp 23.16 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 23.16 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 12.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 67.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.5% (2025)
- Rural population 39.00 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 23.2% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 31.48 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.06 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Kenya?
- Potatoes — yield in Kenya was 9,684 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 22,428 kg/ha in 2010.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,937 kg/ha in 1984.
- How does Kenya rank for potatoes — yield?
- Kenya ranks 137th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is down 31.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Kenya 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.