Potatoes — Yield in Middle Africa
Middle Africa: Potatoes — Yield was 7,981 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Middle Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, potatoes — yield in Middle Africa stood at 7,981 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 1.7% on the previous year and up 14.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Middle Africa peaked at 7,981 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 2,566 kg/ha, in 1982.
That places Middle Africa 31st out of 33 groups with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 4,322 kg/ha | 3,893 kg/ha | 4,696 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,193 kg/ha | 3,975 kg/ha | 4,427 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,452 kg/ha | 2,566 kg/ha | 4,099 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,203 kg/ha | 3,340 kg/ha | 5,481 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,502 kg/ha | 2,690 kg/ha | 6,300 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,337 kg/ha | 6,919 kg/ha | 7,853 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 7,737 kg/ha | 7,447 kg/ha | 7,981 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Middle Africa
More agriculture & rural data for Middle Africa
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 57 kg/An (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 8.08 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 113,974 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 19,128 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 2.18 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 16,416 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 13,891 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 270,208 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 4.75 million An (2024)
- Bananas — Production 7.03 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Middle Africa?
- Potatoes — yield in Middle Africa was 7,981 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Middle Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 7,981 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Middle Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,566 kg/ha in 1982.
- How does Middle Africa rank for potatoes — yield?
- Middle Africa ranks 31st out of 33 groups with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Middle Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 14.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Middle Africa 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.