Potatoes — Yield in Malta
Malta: Potatoes — Yield was 13,549 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Malta, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, potatoes — yield in Malta stood at 13,549 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 5.5% on the previous year and down 24.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Malta peaked at 27,143 kg/ha in 2008 and was at its lowest, 5,554 kg/ha, in 1965.
That places Malta 122nd 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 | 7,372 kg/ha | 5,554 kg/ha | 9,066 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,194 kg/ha | 6,879 kg/ha | 9,375 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 8,265 kg/ha | 6,500 kg/ha | 11,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 20,854 kg/ha | 11,448 kg/ha | 26,995 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 20,667 kg/ha | 14,211 kg/ha | 27,143 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 16,355 kg/ha | 9,750 kg/ha | 26,989 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 13,376 kg/ha | 12,491 kg/ha | 14,333 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Malta
- Agriculture share gdp 0.4691 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 0.4691 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.2% (2024)
- Rural population 4.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.3% (2025)
- Rural population 25,040 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 0.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 130.29 million current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 0 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Malta?
- Potatoes — yield in Malta was 13,549 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Malta?
- The highest recorded value was 27,143 kg/ha in 2008.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Malta?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,554 kg/ha in 1965.
- How does Malta rank for potatoes — yield?
- Malta ranks 122nd out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Malta?
- Over the last ten years it is down 24.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Malta 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.