This is a list of countries by

potato The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern Unit ...

production from 2016 to 2020, based on data from the

Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database The Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database (FAOSTAT) website disseminates statistical data collected and maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). FAOSTAT data are provided as a time-series from 1961 in mo ...

. Countries – Select All; Regions – World + (Total); Elements – Production Quantity; Items – Potatoes; Years – 2020 + 2019 + 2018 + 2017 + 2016 The estimated total world production for potatoes in 2020 was 359,071,403

metric tonnes The tonne ( or ; symbol: t) is a unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. It is a non-SI unit accepted for use with SI. It is also referred to as a metric ton to distinguish it from the non-metric units of the short ton (United States c ...

, up 1.2% from 354,812,093 tonnes in 2019.Sum of values for countries with available data, which may be official or

FAO The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)french: link=no, Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; it, Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura is an intern ...

data based on imputation methodology China was the largest producer, accounting for 21.8% of world production, followed by India at 14.3%. Dependent territories are shown in italics.

Production by country

>1,000,000 tonnes

100,000–1,000,000 tonnes

10,000–100,000 tonnes

<10,000 tonnes

Notes

References

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Potato production The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern United S ...

Potato The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern Unit ...

Country *Potatoes