Potatoes — Yield in Madagascar
Madagascar: Potatoes — Yield was 6,038 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Potatoes — Yield in Madagascar, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for potatoes — yield in Madagascar is 6,038 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and up 1.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Madagascar peaked at 7,784 kg/ha in 1983 and was at its lowest, 4,693 kg/ha, in 1973.
That places Madagascar 144th out of 153 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Potatoes — Yield in Madagascar, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,546 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 7,083 kg/ha | +8.2% |
| 1963 | 7,667 kg/ha | +8.2% |
| 1964 | 7,184 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 1965 | 7,059 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1966 | 7,201 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1967 | 7,321 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1968 | 7,118 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1969 | 6,913 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1970 | 6,366 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1971 | 6,139 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1972 | 4,823 kg/ha | -21.4% |
| 1973 | 4,693 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1974 | 4,814 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1975 | 5,775 kg/ha | +20.0% |
| 1976 | 6,137 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1977 | 6,778 kg/ha | +10.4% |
| 1978 | 6,042 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 1979 | 6,061 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1980 | 5,701 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 1981 | 6,096 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1982 | 6,865 kg/ha | +12.6% |
| 1983 | 7,784 kg/ha | +13.4% |
| 1984 | 7,765 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1985 | 6,465 kg/ha | -16.7% |
| 1986 | 6,468 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1987 | 6,469 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 6,468 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1989 | 6,967 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1990 | 6,974 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1991 | 5,598 kg/ha | -19.7% |
| 1992 | 5,656 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1993 | 5,643 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1994 | 5,844 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1995 | 5,685 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1996 | 5,717 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1997 | 5,738 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1998 | 5,738 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 5,939 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2000 | 5,827 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2001 | 5,966 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2002 | 5,962 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2003 | 5,104 kg/ha | -14.4% |
| 2004 | 5,614 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 2005 | 5,856 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2006 | 5,856 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 5,988 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2008 | 5,991 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2009 | 5,992 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 5,893 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2011 | 5,897 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2012 | 5,931 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2013 | 5,943 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2014 | 5,951 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 5,968 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2016 | 5,969 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 5,974 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 5,984 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 5,990 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 6,006 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2021 | 6,015 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 6,019 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 6,028 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 6,038 kg/ha | +0.2% |
Madagascar compared with similar countries
- Madagascar's 6,038 kg/ha is below the median for low income countries, which is 11,047 kg/ha, 55% of the median. (16 countries reporting)
- Madagascar's 6,038 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 10,316 kg/ha, 59% of the median. (32 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,121 kg/ha | 6,546 kg/ha | 7,667 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,763 kg/ha | 4,693 kg/ha | 6,778 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,705 kg/ha | 5,701 kg/ha | 7,784 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,853 kg/ha | 5,598 kg/ha | 6,974 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,816 kg/ha | 5,104 kg/ha | 5,992 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,950 kg/ha | 5,893 kg/ha | 5,990 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,021 kg/ha | 6,006 kg/ha | 6,038 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Madagascar
- 141 Guadeloupe 7,000 kg/ha compare
- 142 New Caledonia 6,905 kg/ha compare
- 143 Uganda 6,857 kg/ha compare
- 145 Mauritania 5,915 kg/ha compare
- 146 Papua New Guinea 5,792 kg/ha compare
- 147 Botswana 3,852 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Madagascar
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.42 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.217 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 130.06 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.72 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0011 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.671 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 21.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 21.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.3% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Madagascar?
- Potatoes — yield in Madagascar was 6,038 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Madagascar?
- The highest recorded value was 7,784 kg/ha in 1983.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Madagascar?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,693 kg/ha in 1973.
- How does Madagascar rank for potatoes — yield?
- Madagascar ranks 144th out of 153 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Madagascar?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Madagascar 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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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.