Potatoes — Yield in South America
South America: Potatoes — Yield was 20,445 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in South America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
South America recorded 20,445 kg/ha for potatoes — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 6.2% on the previous year and up 17.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in South America peaked at 20,445 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 6,707 kg/ha, in 1963.
South America ranks 20th of 33 groups 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 | 7,393 kg/ha | 6,707 kg/ha | 8,047 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,887 kg/ha | 7,785 kg/ha | 9,474 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 11,098 kg/ha | 9,319 kg/ha | 12,489 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 12,857 kg/ha | 11,821 kg/ha | 14,095 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 14,943 kg/ha | 13,490 kg/ha | 15,749 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 17,573 kg/ha | 15,754 kg/ha | 19,584 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 19,698 kg/ha | 19,250 kg/ha | 20,445 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near South America
More agriculture & rural data for South America
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.00 million ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 20.74 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 132,585 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 62,811 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 8.33 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 747,608 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 401,333 ha (2024)
- Milk, Total — Yield/Carcass Weight 2,346 kg/An (2024)
- Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 68.28 million An (2024)
- Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Production 16.58 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in South America?
- Potatoes — yield in South America was 20,445 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in South America?
- The highest recorded value was 20,445 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in South America?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,707 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does South America rank for potatoes — yield?
- South America ranks 20th out of 33 groups with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in South America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 17.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this South America 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.