Potatoes — Yield in Sweden
Sweden: Potatoes — Yield was 37,311 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Sweden, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Sweden recorded 37,311 kg/ha for potatoes — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 3.6% on the previous year and up 8.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Sweden peaked at 37,510 kg/ha in 1993 and was at its lowest, 17,630 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Sweden 16th out of 166 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 22,276 kg/ha | 17,630 kg/ha | 26,390 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 25,690 kg/ha | 19,915 kg/ha | 30,738 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 29,652 kg/ha | 23,262 kg/ha | 35,634 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 33,001 kg/ha | 29,161 kg/ha | 37,510 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 29,616 kg/ha | 27,601 kg/ha | 31,821 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 33,418 kg/ha | 30,122 kg/ha | 35,810 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 36,187 kg/ha | 34,779 kg/ha | 37,311 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Sweden
- Agriculture share gdp 1.5 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.5 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2024)
- Rural population 10.9% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.8% (2025)
- Rural population 1.16 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 10.06 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 0 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Sweden?
- Potatoes — yield in Sweden was 37,311 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Sweden?
- The highest recorded value was 37,510 kg/ha in 1993.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Sweden?
- The lowest recorded value was 17,630 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Sweden rank for potatoes — yield?
- Sweden ranks 16th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Sweden?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sweden 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.