Countries by potato production

China had the highest potato production of 156 countries in 2021, at 94,350,000 tonnes. Saint Kitts and Nevis had the lowest, at 0 tonnes. The median was 348,562 tonnes and the figure for the World was 376,201,273 tonnes. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest94,350,000China

Lowest0Saint Kitts and Nevis

Median348,562156 countries

World376,201,273History

Map of countries, 2021

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tonnes, 2021. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Potatoes, production, t (item 116, element 5510). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Top 40 countries, 2021

tonnes. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Potatoes, production, t (item 116, element 5510). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2021 tonnes	Change on 2020
1	China Estimated	94,350,000	+1.7%
2	India	54,230,000	+11.7%
3	Ukraine	21,356,320	+2.5%
4	United States	18,717,000	-1.8%
5	Russia	18,295,535	-6.7%
6	Germany	11,312,100	-3.4%
7	Bangladesh	9,887,242	+2.9%
8	France	8,987,220	+1.9%
9	Poland	7,081,460	-9.9%
10	Netherlands	6,675,590	-4.9%
11	Egypt	6,273,931	-7.6%
12	Canada	6,152,723	+16.4%
13	Pakistan	5,872,960	+29%
14	Peru	5,702,350	+3.4%
15	United Kingdom	5,127,387	-7%
16	Türkiye	5,100,000	-1.9%
17	Algeria	4,360,880	-6.4%
18	Ethiopia	4,052,928	+5.4%
19	Belgium	3,871,470	-1.5%
20	Brazil	3,853,464	+2.7%
21	Belarus	3,405,055	-8.2%
22	Nepal	3,325,231	+6.2%
23	Uzbekistan	3,285,646	+4.5%
24	Iran	3,214,971	-7.1%
25	Argentina Estimated	2,999,744	+4%
26	Colombia	2,596,518	-1.1%
27	South Africa	2,595,280	-2.8%
28	Denmark	2,374,600	-14.1%
29	Kazakhstan	2,178,319	+0.6%
30	Japan	2,175,000	-1.4%
31	Kenya	2,107,824	+13.3%
32	Spain	2,081,110	+1.4%
33	Mexico	1,947,761	+0.2%
34	Morocco	1,641,853	-3.8%
35	Australia	1,458,991	+35.5%
36	Malawi	1,419,527	+7.7%
37	Romania	1,397,840	-12.7%
38	Italy	1,362,130	-5.1%
39	Indonesia	1,361,064	+6.1%
40	Kyrgyzstan	1,289,108	-2.9%
41	Bolivia	1,272,649	-3.4%
42	Nigeria Estimated	1,225,213	-1.7%
43	Azerbaijan	1,061,958	+2.3%
44	Tajikistan	1,041,300	+1.9%
45	Chile	994,508	-22.8%
46	Rwanda	938,281	+9.3%
47	Afghanistan	879,371	+2.8%
48	Sweden	826,000	-5.8%
49	Austria	769,690	-13.1%
50	Tanzania Estimated	675,670	-19.2%
51	Czechia	671,860	-3.5%
52	North Korea Estimated	636,952	-3.7%
53	Serbia	613,785	-7.7%
54	Syria	594,625	-8.1%
55	Guatemala	585,358	-2.2%
56	Saudi Arabia	578,108	+2.8%
57	Finland	558,790	-10.5%
58	New Zealand Estimated	557,457	+0.9%
59	South Korea	554,893	+0.3%
60	Turkmenistan	535,908	+9.2%
61	Lebanon	532,127	-16%
62	Sudan Estimated	504,279	+2.1%
63	Israel	501,153	-5.1%
64	Angola	485,371	+1%
65	Mozambique	479,839	+2%
66	Venezuela	474,491	+5.1%
67	Iraq	466,127	-30.9%
68	Tunisia	450,000	0%
69	Zimbabwe	447,867	-24.4%
70	Myanmar	441,807	-5.6%
71	Portugal	413,320	+0.9%
72	Ireland	407,500	+35.8%
73	Uganda	394,400	+57.8%
74	Burundi	394,279	+10.2%
75	Greece	381,740	-15.3%
76	Norway	368,900	+2.1%
77	Armenia	364,557	-16.6%
78	Guinea	349,747	+31.1%
79	Yemen	347,377	+43.2%
80	Switzerland	342,752	-29.9%
81	Bosnia and Herzegovina	339,727	-23%
82	Niger	339,524	+44.1%
83	Libya	328,890	-10.3%
84	Vietnam	323,685	+10.1%
85	Cameroon Estimated	319,278	-0.8%
86	Albania	258,862	+1.6%
87	Madagascar Estimated	248,911	+0.2%
88	Ecuador	244,749	-40.1%
89	Hungary	239,840	-11.2%
90	Georgia	234,700	+12.5%
91	Moldova	218,291	+27%
92	Mali	218,062	-3.5%
93	Lithuania	200,160	-32.5%
94	Bulgaria	195,640	+1.7%
95	Jordan	189,372	+28%
96	Mongolia	182,638	-25.2%
97	North Macedonia	179,815	-7%
98	Slovakia	151,100	-9.1%
99	Senegal	143,640	-2.9%
100	Lesotho Estimated	132,667	+0.8%
101	Croatia	127,830	-26.7%
102	Thailand	119,897	-5.5%
103	Latvia	115,100	-36.4%
104	Democratic Republic of the Congo	104,187	0%
105	Philippines	103,058	-9.3%
106	Cyprus	98,980	+7.7%
107	Cuba	97,292	-15.7%
108	Uruguay	93,121	+26.3%
109	Dominican Republic	90,802	+1.9%
110	Costa Rica	83,410	+75.2%
111	Palestine	81,959	+36.4%
112	Nicaragua	77,710	+12.9%
113	Sri Lanka	75,911	+16.6%
114	Estonia	66,270	-25%
115	Slovenia	64,040	-28.7%
116	Zambia	62,358	-22%
117	Taiwan	62,175	+17.9%
118	Bhutan	38,573	-15.2%
119	Chad Estimated	37,349	+1.3%
120	Haiti Estimated	35,032	+0.6%
121	Burkina Faso Estimated	32,889	+0.7%
122	Montenegro	27,547	-6.5%
123	Panama	27,256	-15.6%
124	Honduras Estimated	26,948	-1.4%
125	Kuwait	23,875	+27.8%
126	Jamaica	16,751	+14.1%
127	Luxembourg	16,220	-0.9%
128	Namibia Estimated	14,517	-2.3%
129	Mauritius	12,910	-9%
130	Oman	12,462	-22.8%
131	El Salvador	9,169	-11.3%
132	Eswatini Estimated	8,675	+1.4%
133	Malta	7,120	-10.9%
134	Republic of the Congo Estimated	7,101	-0.1%
135	Iceland	6,355	-13.9%
136	Paraguay	4,089	+2.7%
137	Comoros	3,378	+3.8%
138	Laos Estimated	2,412	-26.2%
139	Cape Verde	2,400	-5.9%
140	Mauritania Estimated	2,389	-0.7%
141	Botswana Estimated	2,306	-6.3%
142	New Caledonia	2,264	-13.5%
143	United Arab Emirates	1,853	+76.3%
144	Faroe Islands Estimated	1,518	+0.4%
145	Belize	1,426	+20.4%
146	Central African Republic Estimated	1,392	+1.5%
147	Papua New Guinea Estimated	1,260	-0.2%
148	Timor-Leste	1,007	-12.7%
149	Qatar	490	+137.9%
150	Benin	156	+147.4%
151	Dominica Estimated	149	+0.7%
152	Bahrain	110	+266.7%
153	French Polynesia	76	-16.5%
154	Eritrea Estimated	58	-3.7%
155	Fiji	0	n/a
155	Saint Kitts and Nevis Estimated	0	n/a

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Quantity of potatoes produced in the calendar year, in tonnes, as published in FAOSTAT's crops and livestock products domain. Countries report to FAO through its annual production questionnaire; FAO fills gaps with official publications and its own estimates.

FAO fills gaps in national reporting with its own estimates and imputations, which are marked as estimated, and revises past years when countries send new figures.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. 4 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2021 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Potatoes, production, t (item 116, element 5510). Accessed on 2026-10-12. https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip Licence: CC-BY-4.0. FAO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.

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Saint Kitts and Nevis, with 0 tonnes in 2021.

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