Potatoes — Yield in Melanesia
Melanesia: Potatoes — Yield was 6,440 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Melanesia recorded 6,440 kg/ha for potatoes — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 2.5% on the previous year and down 11.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Melanesia peaked at 17,458 kg/ha in 1992 and was at its lowest, 3,308 kg/ha, in 1976.
Melanesia ranks 153rd 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 | 6,459 kg/ha | 5,759 kg/ha | 7,524 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,292 kg/ha | 3,308 kg/ha | 9,583 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,413 kg/ha | 5,099 kg/ha | 9,200 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 11,764 kg/ha | 7,503 kg/ha | 17,458 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,126 kg/ha | 4,474 kg/ha | 8,563 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,980 kg/ha | 6,348 kg/ha | 7,368 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,465 kg/ha | 6,058 kg/ha | 6,618 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
- 150 New Caledonia 6,905 kg/ha compare
- 151 Uganda 6,857 kg/ha compare
- 152 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 6,537 kg/ha compare
- 154 Madagascar 6,038 kg/ha compare
- 155 Republic of Moldova 6,035 kg/ha compare
- 156 Mauritania 5,915 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Melanesia
- Fat of pigs — Production 6,015 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 89,605 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 41 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 4,250 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 374.22 t (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 2.18 million An (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 504 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Melanesia?
- Potatoes — yield in Melanesia was 6,440 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 17,458 kg/ha in 1992.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,308 kg/ha in 1976.
- How does Melanesia rank for potatoes — yield?
- Melanesia ranks 153rd out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 11.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Melanesia 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.