Potatoes — Yield in Nepal
Nepal: Potatoes — Yield was 16,651 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Nepal, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, potatoes — yield in Nepal stood at 16,651 kg/ha.
The figure is down 2.7% on the previous year and up 21.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Nepal peaked at 17,204 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 5,099 kg/ha, in 1986.
That places Nepal 105th out of 166 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,050 kg/ha | 5,610 kg/ha | 6,977 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,622 kg/ha | 5,164 kg/ha | 5,884 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,182 kg/ha | 5,099 kg/ha | 7,857 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,637 kg/ha | 8,060 kg/ha | 9,260 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 11,717 kg/ha | 9,644 kg/ha | 13,326 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 14,112 kg/ha | 13,126 kg/ha | 16,046 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 16,869 kg/ha | 16,650 kg/ha | 17,204 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Nepal
- 102 Bosnia and Herzegovina 16,960 kg/ha compare
- 103 Bulgaria 16,830 kg/ha compare
- 104 Sudan (former) 16,667 kg/ha compare
- 106 North Macedonia 16,618 kg/ha compare
- 107 Czechoslovakia 16,237 kg/ha compare
- 108 Ecuador 16,158 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Nepal
- Agriculture share gdp 21.56 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 21.56 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.6% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2022)
- Rural population 33.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.8% (2025)
- Rural population 9.77 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 21.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.81 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 383,285 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Nepal?
- Potatoes — yield in Nepal was 16,651 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Nepal?
- The highest recorded value was 17,204 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Nepal?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,099 kg/ha in 1986.
- How does Nepal rank for potatoes — yield?
- Nepal ranks 105th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Nepal?
- Over the last ten years it is up 21.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Nepal 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.