Potatoes — Yield in Portugal
Portugal: Potatoes — Yield was 21,722 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Portugal, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, potatoes — yield in Portugal stood at 21,722 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 3.2% on the previous year and up 9.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Portugal peaked at 24,602 kg/ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 7,652 kg/ha, in 1983.
Portugal ranks 73rd 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 | 9,895 kg/ha | 8,778 kg/ha | 10,920 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 9,650 kg/ha | 7,976 kg/ha | 10,727 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,969 kg/ha | 7,652 kg/ha | 13,095 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 13,780 kg/ha | 11,160 kg/ha | 15,648 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 15,783 kg/ha | 13,820 kg/ha | 16,994 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 19,076 kg/ha | 14,709 kg/ha | 23,585 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 22,837 kg/ha | 21,722 kg/ha | 24,602 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Portugal
- 70 Cyprus 22,095 kg/ha compare
- 71 Belarus 22,063 kg/ha compare
- 72 Kazakhstan 21,914 kg/ha compare
- 74 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 21,463 kg/ha compare
- 75 Azerbaijan 20,990 kg/ha compare
- 76 Mauritius 20,956 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Portugal
- Agriculture share gdp 1.96 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.96 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.9% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.4% (2025)
- Rural population 38.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.6% (2025)
- Rural population 4.16 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.0% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.79 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 30,230 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Portugal?
- Potatoes — yield in Portugal was 21,722 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Portugal?
- The highest recorded value was 24,602 kg/ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Portugal?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,652 kg/ha in 1983.
- How does Portugal rank for potatoes — yield?
- Portugal ranks 73rd out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Portugal?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Portugal 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.