Potatoes — Yield in Mexico
Mexico: Potatoes — Yield was 32,714 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Mexico, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Mexico recorded 32,714 kg/ha for potatoes — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 2.3% on the previous year and up 19.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Mexico peaked at 32,714 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 6,639 kg/ha, in 1961.
Mexico ranks 27th of 166 countries on this measure, in the top 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 | 8,702 kg/ha | 6,639 kg/ha | 10,354 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,684 kg/ha | 10,546 kg/ha | 13,288 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 13,490 kg/ha | 11,500 kg/ha | 14,636 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 18,899 kg/ha | 15,826 kg/ha | 22,352 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 25,450 kg/ha | 23,756 kg/ha | 27,737 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 27,939 kg/ha | 26,273 kg/ha | 30,524 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 31,934 kg/ha | 31,263 kg/ha | 32,714 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Mexico
- 24 Brazil 33,520 kg/ha compare
- 25 Saudi Arabia 33,172 kg/ha compare
- 26 Morocco 32,782 kg/ha compare
- 28 El Salvador 32,312 kg/ha compare
- 29 Japan 32,309 kg/ha compare
- 30 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 32,280 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Mexico
- Agriculture share gdp 3.88 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 3.88 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 20.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.6% (2025)
- Rural population 26.34 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 71.18 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.67 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Mexico?
- Potatoes — yield in Mexico was 32,714 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Mexico?
- The highest recorded value was 32,714 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Mexico?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,639 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Mexico rank for potatoes — yield?
- Mexico ranks 27th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Mexico?
- Over the last ten years it is up 19.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Mexico 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.