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 122nd of 153 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Potatoes — Yield in Mozambique, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,264 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,167 kg/ha | +21.2% |
| 1963 | 4,871 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1964 | 6,022 kg/ha | +23.6% |
| 1965 | 6,182 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1966 | 7,500 kg/ha | +21.3% |
| 1967 | 8,014 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1968 | 7,023 kg/ha | -12.4% |
| 1969 | 7,026 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 6,897 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1971 | 6,833 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1972 | 6,774 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1973 | 6,936 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1974 | 6,774 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1975 | 6,667 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1976 | 7,000 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1977 | 6,667 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 1978 | 9,167 kg/ha | +37.5% |
| 1979 | 10,853 kg/ha | +18.4% |
| 1980 | 11,818 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 1981 | 10,833 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 1982 | 10,833 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 10,000 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 1984 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 10,833 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1986 | 11,667 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1987 | 12,000 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1988 | 12,500 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1989 | 10,833 kg/ha | -13.3% |
| 1990 | 12,071 kg/ha | +11.4% |
| 1991 | 6,092 kg/ha | -49.5% |
| 1992 | 12,545 kg/ha | +105.9% |
| 1993 | 12,622 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1994 | 12,699 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1995 | 12,776 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1996 | 12,682 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1997 | 12,391 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1998 | 12,295 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1999 | 12,541 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2000 | 12,657 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2001 | 12,772 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2002 | 12,885 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2003 | 13,017 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2004 | 12,987 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2005 | 13,134 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2006 | 13,235 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2007 | 13,333 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2008 | 14,000 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 2009 | 14,500 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2010 | 14,247 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2011 | 14,500 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2012 | 14,396 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2013 | 13,553 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 2014 | 11,709 kg/ha | -13.6% |
| 2015 | 15,128 kg/ha | +29.2% |
| 2016 | 17,000 kg/ha | +12.4% |
| 2017 | 16,551 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 2018 | 18,942 kg/ha | +14.5% |
| 2019 | 19,084 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2020 | 18,969 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2021 | 17,762 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 2022 | 18,300 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2023 | 19,367 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2024 | 12,358 kg/ha | -36.2% |
Mozambique compared with similar countries
- Mozambique's 12,358 kg/ha is above the median for low income countries, which is 11,047 kg/ha, 1.1× the median. (16 countries reporting)
- Mozambique's 12,358 kg/ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 10,316 kg/ha, 1.2× the median. (32 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Potatoes — Yield in Mozambique changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | +105.9% | 6,092 kg/ha | 12,545 kg/ha |
| 1991 | -49.5% | 12,071 kg/ha | 6,092 kg/ha |
| 2024 | -36.2% | 19,367 kg/ha | 12,358 kg/ha |
| 1978 | +37.5% | 6,667 kg/ha | 9,167 kg/ha |
| 2015 | +29.2% | 11,709 kg/ha | 15,128 kg/ha |
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, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -0.2557 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2557 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 160.3 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.63 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6279 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 25.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 25.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (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 122nd out of 153 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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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.