Potatoes — Yield in Mozambique
Mozambique: Potatoes — Yield was 12,358 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Mozambique, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Mozambique recorded 12,358 kg/ha for potatoes — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 36.2% on the previous year and up 5.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Mozambique peaked at 19,367 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 4,264 kg/ha, in 1961.
Mozambique ranks 127th 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 | 6,230 kg/ha | 4,264 kg/ha | 8,014 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,457 kg/ha | 6,667 kg/ha | 10,853 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 11,132 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 12,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 11,871 kg/ha | 6,092 kg/ha | 12,776 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 13,252 kg/ha | 12,657 kg/ha | 14,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 15,511 kg/ha | 11,709 kg/ha | 19,084 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 17,351 kg/ha | 12,358 kg/ha | 19,367 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Mozambique
- Agriculture share gdp 25.57 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 25.57 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
- Rural population 62.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.6% (2025)
- Rural population 22.37 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 25.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.71 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 387,740 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Mozambique?
- Potatoes — yield in Mozambique was 12,358 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Mozambique?
- The highest recorded value was 19,367 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Mozambique?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,264 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Mozambique rank for potatoes — yield?
- Mozambique ranks 127th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Mozambique?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Mozambique 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.