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 84th of 166 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.
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 share gdp 7.47 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 7.47 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
- Rural population 14.4% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.7% (2025)
- Rural population 4.98 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 7.5% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 21.80 billion current US$ (2024)
- Bananas — Production 2.34 million t (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 84th out of 166 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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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.