Roots, tubers, plantains and their products — Potassium supply — Value in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea: Roots, tubers, plantains and their products — Potassium supply — Value was 1,276 mg/cap/d in 2023. ▼ Falling
Roots, tubers, plantains and their products — Potassium supply — Value in Papua New Guinea, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in mg/cap/d.
Analysis
The most recent figure for roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value in Papua New Guinea is 1,276 mg/cap/d, measured in 2023. That is the lowest value across all 14 years on record.
That represents a change of down 1.8% on the previous year and down 13.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value in Papua New Guinea peaked at 1,517 mg/cap/d in 2010 and was at its lowest, 1,276 mg/cap/d, in 2023.
That places Papua New Guinea 16th out of 163 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
Roots, tubers, plantains and their products — Potassium supply — Value in Papua New Guinea, year by year
| Year | mg/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,517 mg/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 1,511 mg/cap/d | -0.4% |
| 2012 | 1,488 mg/cap/d | -1.5% |
| 2013 | 1,482 mg/cap/d | -0.4% |
| 2014 | 1,495 mg/cap/d | +0.9% |
| 2015 | 1,481 mg/cap/d | -0.9% |
| 2016 | 1,466 mg/cap/d | -1.0% |
| 2017 | 1,444 mg/cap/d | -1.5% |
| 2018 | 1,423 mg/cap/d | -1.5% |
| 2019 | 1,370 mg/cap/d | -3.7% |
| 2020 | 1,348 mg/cap/d | -1.6% |
| 2021 | 1,326 mg/cap/d | -1.6% |
| 2022 | 1,300 mg/cap/d | -2.0% |
| 2023 | 1,276 mg/cap/d | -1.8% |
Papua New Guinea compared with similar countries
- Papua New Guinea's 1,276 mg/cap/d is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 547 mg/cap/d, 2.3× the median. (38 countries reporting)
- Papua New Guinea's 1,276 mg/cap/d is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 427 mg/cap/d, 3.0× the median. (22 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1,468 mg/cap/d | 1,370 mg/cap/d | 1,517 mg/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,312 mg/cap/d | 1,276 mg/cap/d | 1,348 mg/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near Papua New Guinea
More agriculture & rural data for Papua New Guinea
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 0.3264 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1702 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 495.76 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.31 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.8422 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 17.0% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 17.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.6% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value in Papua New Guinea?
- Roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value in Papua New Guinea was 1,276 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 Papua New Guinea?
- The highest recorded value was 1,517 mg/cap/d in 2010.
- What is the lowest roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value recorded in Papua New Guinea?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,276 mg/cap/d in 2023.
- How does Papua New Guinea rank for roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value?
- Papua New Guinea ranks 16th out of 163 countries with data for 2023.
- Is roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value rising or falling in Papua New Guinea?
- Over the last ten years it is down 13.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Papua New Guinea 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.