Potatoes — Yield in Nicaragua
Nicaragua: Potatoes — Yield was 18,008 kg/ha in 2023. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Nicaragua, 1961–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2023, potatoes — yield in Nicaragua stood at 18,008 kg/ha.
The figure is down 10.5% on the previous year and up 5.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Nicaragua peaked at 21,073 kg/ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 3,500 kg/ha, in 1961.
Nicaragua ranks 91st of 166 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 63 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,879 kg/ha | 3,500 kg/ha | 4,333 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,285 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 11,785 kg/ha | 4,963 kg/ha | 15,379 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 14,190 kg/ha | 13,333 kg/ha | 15,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 13,340 kg/ha | 12,500 kg/ha | 13,830 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 17,315 kg/ha | 13,462 kg/ha | 19,606 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 19,798 kg/ha | 18,008 kg/ha | 21,073 kg/ha | 4 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Nicaragua
- Agriculture share gdp 14.48 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 14.48 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2024)
- Rural population 40.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 2.84 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 14.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.22 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 90,616 t (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Nicaragua?
- Potatoes — yield in Nicaragua was 18,008 kg/ha in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Nicaragua?
- The highest recorded value was 21,073 kg/ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Nicaragua?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,500 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Nicaragua rank for potatoes — yield?
- Nicaragua ranks 91st out of 166 countries with data for 2023.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Nicaragua?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Nicaragua 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.