Potatoes — Yield in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Potatoes — Yield was 28,000 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in Zimbabwe, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for potatoes — yield in Zimbabwe is 28,000 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 12.0% on the previous year and down 20.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in Zimbabwe peaked at 35,029 kg/ha in 2016 and was at its lowest, 9,321 kg/ha, in 1962.
Zimbabwe ranks 48th 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 | 11,895 kg/ha | 9,321 kg/ha | 15,172 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 14,956 kg/ha | 14,633 kg/ha | 15,333 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 15,569 kg/ha | 14,612 kg/ha | 16,111 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 15,841 kg/ha | 15,263 kg/ha | 17,234 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 20,975 kg/ha | 17,699 kg/ha | 25,089 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 28,052 kg/ha | 19,000 kg/ha | 35,029 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 24,000 kg/ha | 21,000 kg/ha | 28,000 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Zimbabwe
- 45 Lao People's Democratic Republic 28,752 kg/ha compare
- 46 Dominican Republic 28,726 kg/ha compare
- 47 Slovakia 28,297 kg/ha compare
- 49 Costa Rica 27,548 kg/ha compare
- 50 Lebanon 27,263 kg/ha compare
- 51 Serbia 27,083 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Zimbabwe
- Agriculture share gdp 9.47 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.47 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.3% (2024)
- Rural population 59.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 10.09 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.85 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 325,400 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in Zimbabwe?
- Potatoes — yield in Zimbabwe was 28,000 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The highest recorded value was 35,029 kg/ha in 2016.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The lowest recorded value was 9,321 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Zimbabwe rank for potatoes — yield?
- Zimbabwe ranks 48th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in Zimbabwe?
- Over the last ten years it is down 20.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Zimbabwe 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.