Site Potato News Today published FAO statistics on world potato production. As the site's editor-in-chief Luc Peters writes, "The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is the most authoritative - and, for that matter, the only source of such information that I know." FAO maintains a multi-crop database. It has provided free access to data on food production and agricultural development for more than 245 countries and territories since 1961.
FAOSTAT provides a powerful search tool that users can use to retrieve data about a selected crop, although the results can be somewhat unexpected at times. Luke Peters provided potato yield data related to “production” and “harvest area” and presented the results in the tables below (for 130 countries where potatoes are grown). The latest available FAOSTAT data is from 2018.
Potato Production (FAOSTAT, 2018) - Metric Tons
Total in the world: 368,168,914 tons
1. China | 90,259,155 |
2. India | 48,529,000 |
4.Ukraine | 22,503,970 |
5. Russian Federation | 22,394,960 |
6. United States of America | 20,607,342 |
7. Bangladesh | 9,744,412 |
8. Germany | 8,920,800 |
9. France | 7,870,973 |
10. Poland | 7,478,184 |
11. Netherlands | 6,029,734 |
12. Belarus | 5,865,123 |
13. Canada | 5,790,838 |
14.Iran | 5,321,188 |
15. Peru | 5,121,110 |
16. United Kingdom | 5,028,000 |
17. Egypt | 4,896,476 |
18. Algeria | 4,653,322 |
19.Pakistan | 4,591,776 |
20.Turkey | 4,550,000 |
21. Kazakhstan | 3,806,992 |
22.Brazil | 3,688,029 |
23. Colombia | 3,107,580 |
24. Nepal | 3,088,000 |
25.Belgium | 3,045,443 |
26. Romania | 3,022,758 |
27. Uzbekistan | 2,911,933 |
28. North Korea | 2,500,000 |
29.South Africa | 2,467,724 |
30. Argentina | 2,340,103 |
31. Japan | 2,261,945 |
32.Spain | 2,010,933 |
33. Kenya | 1,870,375 |
34. Morocco | 1,869,149 |
35. Denmark | 1,806,766 |
36. Mexico | 1,802,592 |
37. Tanzania | 1,768,154 |
38. Kyrgyzstan | 1,446,610 |
39. Nigeria | 1,363,358 |
40. Italy | 1,307,598 |
41. Indonesia | 1,284,762 |
42. Australia | 1,188,655 |
43. Chile | 1,183,357 |
44.Bolivia | 1,160,940 |
45 Malawi | 1,125,874 |
46. Tajikistan | 964,644 |
47. Azerbaijan | 898,914 |
48. Rwanda | 847,302 |
49. Angola | 806,552 |
50. Ethiopia | 743,153 |
51.Sweden | 720,200 |
52. Austria | 697,931 |
53. Afghanistan | 615,684 |
54. Finland | 600,300 |
55. Czech Republic | 583,560 |
56. Guatemala | 564,314 |
57. SOUTH KOREA | 553,596 |
58. Syria | 540,000 |
59. Myanmar | 512,443 |
60. New Zealand | 511,776 |
61. Israel | 511,163 |
62. Serbia | 487,909 |
63.Saudi Arabia | 482,305 |
64. Greece | 465,770 |
65.Sudan | 442,988 |
66. Portugal | 431,686 |
67. Latvia | 426,900 |
68. Tunisia | 423,800 |
69.Switzerland | 417,156 |
70. Armenia | 415,050 |
71. Bosnia and Herzegovina | 394,274 |
72. Lebanon | 387,791 |
73. Vietnam | 376,377 |
74. Venezuela | 371,744 |
75. Libya | 348,361 |
76. Hungary | 330,545 |
77. Norway | 326,400 |
78. Mali | 310,902 |
79. Cameroon | 302,706 |
80. Burundi | 302,665 |
81. Lithuania | 296,229 |
82. Iraq | 294,778 |
83. Turkmenistan | 293,533 |
84. Mozambique | 273,335 |
85. Ireland | 273,000 |
86. Ecuador | 269,201 |
87.Bulgaria | 261,594 |
88. Madagascar | 257,379 |
89. Albania | 254,543 |
90. Yemen | 248,889 |
91. Georgia | 237,500 |
92. Croatia | 182,261 |
93. North Macedonia | 181,931 |
94. Jordan | 177,431 |
95. Moldova | 174,774 |
96. Slovakia | 169,953 |
97. mongolia | 168,883 |
98. Niger. | 168,569 |
99 Uganda | 162,151 |
100. Guinea | 151,326 |
101. Cuba | 135,147 |
102.Lesotho | 130,602 |
103. Thailand | 125,106 |
104. philippines | 117,423 |
105. Cyprus | 106,452 |
106. Democratic Republic of the Congo | 101,398 |
107. Costa Rica | 93,567 |
108. Sri Lanka | 88,897 |
109. Dominican Republic | 88,557 |
110. Estonia | 88,434 |
111. Uruguay | 87,000 |
112. Senegal | 79,499 |
113. Slovenia | 72,917 |
114. Nicaragua | 66,167 |
115. Taiwan | 62,287 |
116. Zimbabwe | 60,521 |
117. Palestine | 57,315 |
118. Bhutan | 56,792 |
119. Chad | 41,583 |
120. Kuwait | 36,212 |
121. Haiti | 34,475 |
122. Honduras | 26,904 |
123. Montenegro | 26,098 |
124. Panama | 23,941 |
125. Mauritius | 17,033 |
126. luxembourg | 16,211 |
127 Jamaica | 16,184 |
128.Oman | 15,613 |
129 .. Namibia | 14,520 |
130.Zambia | 13,546 |
Harvested area of potatoes (FAOSTAT, 2018) - ha
Total in the world: 17 578,672 hectares
1. China | 4,810,888 |
2. India | 2,151,000 |
3.Ukraine | 1,319,900 |
4. Russian Federation | 1,313,495 |
5. Bangladesh | 477,419 |
6. United States of America | 414,115 |
7. Nigeria | 371,341 |
8. Peru | 323,092 |
9. Poland | 297,484 |
10. Belarus | 271,772 |
11. Germany | 252,200 |
12. Kenya | 217,315 |
13. North Korea | 215,390 |
14. France | 199,886 |
15. Nepal | 195,268 |
16.Pakistan | 193,992 |
17. Kazakhstan | 192,326 |
18. Tanzania | 190,053 |
19.Bolivia | 180,802 |
20. Egypt | 176,670 |
21. Romania | 173,296 |
22. Netherlands | 164,689 |
23.Iran | 164,410 |
24. Algeria | 149,665 |
25. Colombia | 141,299 |
26. United Kingdom | 140,000 |
27.Turkey | 135,904 |
28. Canada | 134,102 |
29. Angola | 131,403 |
30.Brazil | 118,297 |
31.Belgium | 93,331 |
32. Rwanda | 92,800 |
33. Uzbekistan | 86,443 |
34. Kyrgyzstan | 84,428 |
35. Japan | 73,281 |
36. Argentina | 72,442 |
37. Indonesia | 68,683 |
38.South Africa | 68,277 |
39. Malawi | 68,133 |
40. Spain | 67,488 |
41. Ethiopia | 66,933 |
42. Morocco | 62,033 |
43. Mexico | 60,303 |
44. Azerbaijan | 59,311 |
45. Denmark | 51,961 |
46. Tajikistan | 49,643 |
47. Italy | 46,429 |
48. Madagascar | 43,435 |
49. Chile | 41,268 |
50. Uganda | 37,754 |
51.Sudan | 35,584 |
52. Bosnia and Herzegovina | 35,159 |
53. Myanmar | 33,468 |
54. Afghanistan | 32,400 |
55. Syria | 30,000 |
56. Australia | 29,740 |
57. Serbia | 28,232 |
58. Burundi | 27,097 |
59. SOUTH KOREA | 25,772 |
60. Tunisia | 25,082 |
61. Vietnam | 24,673 |
62.Sweden | 23,810 |
63. Austria | 23,755 |
64. Czech Republic | 22,889 |
65. Guatemala | 22,480 |
66. Latvia | 22,100 |
67. Ecuador | 22,099 |
68. Armenia | 22,062 |
69. Democratic Republic of the Congo | 22,002 |
70. Finland | 21,400 |
71. Portugal | 20,800 |
72. Cameroon | 20,449 |
73. Venezuela | 19,733 |
74. Lithuania | 19,163 |
75.Saudi Arabia | 19,149 |
76. Moldova | 18,946 |
77. Georgia | 18,800 |
78. Iraq | 18,780 |
79. Mozambique | 18,022 |
80. Libya | 17,918 |
81.Gretia | 16,830 |
82. Turkmenistan | 16,697 |
83. Yemen | 16,171 |
84. Lebanon | 15,355 |
85. Israel | 15,036 |
86.Bulgaria | 14,096 |
87. Mali | 13,689 |
88. Hungary | 13,387 |
89. Mongolia | 12,925 |
90. North Macedonia | 12,691 |
91. Guinea | 11,753 |
92. Norway | 11,614 |
93.Switzerland | 10,613 |
94. New Zealand | 10,152 |
95. Albania | 9,726 |
96. Croatia | 9,272 |
97. Ireland | 8,200 |
98. Slovakia | 7,760 |
99. Lesotho | 7,640 |
100. Thailand | 7,639 |
101. Philippines | 7,571 |
102. Cuba | 6,162 |
103. Jordan | 5,795 |
104. Niger | 5,672 |
105. Bhutan | 5,369 |
106. Estonia | 5,205 |
107. Sri Lanka | 5,174 |
108. Chad | 4,237 |
109. Cyprus | 4,223 |
110. Uruguay | 4,167 |
111. Swaziland | 4,035 |
112. Costa Rica | 3,682 |
113. Zimbabwe | 3,538 |
114. Nicaragua | 3,430 |
115. Senegal | 3,356 |
116. Dominican Republic | 3,321 |
117. Slovenia | 2,812 |
118. Haiti | 2,718 |
119. Taiwan | 2,654 |
120. Honduras | 1,815 |
121. Zambia | 1,809 |
122. Montenegro | 1,619 |
123. Central African Republic | 1,578 |
124. Palestine | 1,562 |
125. Namibia | 1,201 |
126. Jamaica | 1,122 |
127. Panama | 960 |
128. East Timor | 865 |
129. Burkina Faso | 752 |
130. Mauritius | 719 |