Potatoes — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Least Developed Countries (LDCs): Potatoes — Yield was 15,134 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for potatoes — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is 15,134 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 1.4% on the previous year and up 14.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) peaked at 15,343 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 5,892 kg/ha, in 1962.
Least Developed Countries (LDCs) ranks 26th of 33 groups 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 | 6,643 kg/ha | 5,892 kg/ha | 7,604 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,372 kg/ha | 7,051 kg/ha | 7,601 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,943 kg/ha | 7,523 kg/ha | 8,226 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,780 kg/ha | 8,078 kg/ha | 9,612 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,688 kg/ha | 9,839 kg/ha | 12,279 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 13,783 kg/ha | 13,050 kg/ha | 14,894 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 15,047 kg/ha | 14,688 kg/ha | 15,343 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Potatoes — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was 15,134 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 15,343 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,892 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Least Developed Countries (LDCs) rank for potatoes — yield?
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) ranks 26th out of 33 groups with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 14.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 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.