Roots, tubers, plantains and their products — Potassium supply — Value in Lesotho
Lesotho: Roots, tubers, plantains and their products — Potassium supply — Value was 623 mg/cap/d in 2023. ▲ Rising
Roots, tubers, plantains and their products — Potassium supply — Value in Lesotho, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in mg/cap/d.
Analysis
Lesotho recorded 623 mg/cap/d for roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value in 2023.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.2% on the previous year and up 5.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value in Lesotho peaked at 652 mg/cap/d in 2014 and was at its lowest, 572 mg/cap/d, in 2020.
That places Lesotho 54th out of 163 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 14 years of available data.
Roots, tubers, plantains and their products — Potassium supply — Value in Lesotho, year by year
| Year | mg/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 591 mg/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 592 mg/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 592 mg/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 591 mg/cap/d | -0.2% |
| 2014 | 652 mg/cap/d | +10.3% |
| 2015 | 603 mg/cap/d | -7.5% |
| 2016 | 601 mg/cap/d | -0.3% |
| 2017 | 636 mg/cap/d | +5.8% |
| 2018 | 629 mg/cap/d | -1.1% |
| 2019 | 649 mg/cap/d | +3.2% |
| 2020 | 572 mg/cap/d | -11.9% |
| 2021 | 651 mg/cap/d | +13.8% |
| 2022 | 624 mg/cap/d | -4.1% |
| 2023 | 623 mg/cap/d | -0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 613.6 mg/cap/d | 591 mg/cap/d | 652 mg/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 617.5 mg/cap/d | 572 mg/cap/d | 651 mg/cap/d | 4 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Lesotho
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.38 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0649 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 70.63 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.6715 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0005 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5533 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 6.5% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 6.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value in Lesotho?
- Roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value in Lesotho was 623 mg/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value recorded in Lesotho?
- The highest recorded value was 652 mg/cap/d in 2014.
- What is the lowest roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value recorded in Lesotho?
- The lowest recorded value was 572 mg/cap/d in 2020.
- How does Lesotho rank for roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value?
- Lesotho ranks 54th out of 163 countries with data for 2023.
- Is roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value rising or falling in Lesotho?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Lesotho data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Roots, tubers, plantains and their products — Potassium supply — Value. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The dataset presents average daily per capita macro and micro nutrient availability by country and by FAO/WHO GIFT food groups (that are different from those used for the Food Balance Sheets), expressed in grams/milligrams/micrograms/kcal per capita per day. The population numbers used to calculate these statistics can be found in the Supply Utilization Accounts (SUA) dataset of FAOSTAT, as Total Population. Food availability quantities are derived from the SUA dataset. SUAs present a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply and utilization during a specified reference period. The SUA shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per capita supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it.