Potatoes — Yield in Peru
Peru: Potatoes — Yield was 19,508 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Peru, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for potatoes — yield in Peru is 19,508 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 12.6% on the previous year and up 32.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Peru peaked at 19,508 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 5,173 kg/ha, in 1963.
Peru ranks 79th of 153 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Potatoes — Yield in Peru, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,288 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,364 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1963 | 5,173 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1964 | 5,855 kg/ha | +13.2% |
| 1965 | 6,245 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1966 | 5,887 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1967 | 6,296 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1968 | 6,084 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1969 | 6,114 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1970 | 6,029 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1971 | 7,263 kg/ha | +20.5% |
| 1972 | 6,324 kg/ha | -12.9% |
| 1973 | 6,400 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1974 | 6,429 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1975 | 6,540 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1976 | 6,594 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1977 | 6,545 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1978 | 6,858 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1979 | 7,004 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1980 | 7,197 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1981 | 8,180 kg/ha | +13.7% |
| 1982 | 7,780 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 1983 | 7,605 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1984 | 8,291 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 1985 | 8,386 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1986 | 8,625 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1987 | 8,036 kg/ha | -6.8% |
| 1988 | 8,924 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1989 | 8,790 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1990 | 7,880 kg/ha | -10.4% |
| 1991 | 7,946 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1992 | 7,428 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1993 | 8,392 kg/ha | +13.0% |
| 1994 | 9,374 kg/ha | +11.7% |
| 1995 | 9,782 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1996 | 10,063 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1997 | 9,670 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1998 | 9,789 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1999 | 11,251 kg/ha | +14.9% |
| 2000 | 11,504 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2001 | 11,486 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2002 | 12,175 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 2003 | 12,185 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 12,190 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 12,458 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2006 | 12,453 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2007 | 12,634 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2008 | 12,914 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2009 | 13,335 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2010 | 13,159 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2011 | 13,738 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 2012 | 14,332 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2013 | 14,412 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2014 | 14,778 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2015 | 14,912 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2016 | 16,273 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 2017 | 15,388 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 2018 | 15,901 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2019 | 16,273 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2020 | 16,555 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2021 | 17,154 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2022 | 17,623 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2023 | 17,325 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2024 | 19,508 kg/ha | +12.6% |
Peru compared with similar countries
- Peru's 19,508 kg/ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 19,409 kg/ha, 1.0× the median. (40 countries reporting)
- Peru's 19,508 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 23,008 kg/ha, 85% of the median. (22 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,812 kg/ha | 5,173 kg/ha | 6,296 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,599 kg/ha | 6,029 kg/ha | 7,263 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 8,181 kg/ha | 7,197 kg/ha | 8,924 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,158 kg/ha | 7,428 kg/ha | 11,251 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 12,334 kg/ha | 11,486 kg/ha | 13,335 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 14,917 kg/ha | 13,159 kg/ha | 16,273 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 17,633 kg/ha | 16,555 kg/ha | 19,508 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Peru
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 12.59 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0747 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 637.02 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.72 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.144 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 7.5% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 7.5% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Peru?
- Potatoes — yield in Peru was 19,508 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Peru?
- The highest recorded value was 19,508 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Peru?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,173 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Peru rank for potatoes — yield?
- Peru ranks 79th out of 153 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Peru?
- Over the last ten years it is up 32.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Peru 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.