Countries by potato production in 2020

This is a list of countries by potato production from 2016 to 2020, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database.^[1] The estimated total world production for potatoes in 2020 was 359,071,403 metric tonnes, up 1.2% from 354,812,093 tonnes in 2019.^{[n 1]} 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

Rank	Country	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
1	China	78,183,874	75,595,403	90,259,155	88,481,500	84,928,500
2	India	51,300,000	50,190,000	51,310,000	48,605,000	43,417,000
3	Ukraine	20,837,990	20,269,190	22,503,970	22,208,220	21,750,290
4	Russia	19,607,361	22,074,874	22,394,960	21,707,645	22,463,487
5	United States	18,789,970	19,251,320	20,421,560	20,453,430	20,426,359
6	Germany	11,715,100	10,602,200	8,920,800	11,720,000	10,772,100
7	Bangladesh	9,606,000	9,655,082	9,744,412	10,215,957	9,474,099
8	France	8,691,900	8,560,410	7,860,380	8,547,354	6,954,983
9	Poland	7,848,600	6,481,620	7,311,960	9,171,733	8,872,445
10	Netherlands	7,020,060	6,961,230	6,025,370	7,391,881	6,534,338
11	United Kingdom	5,520,000	5,307,000	5,060,000	6,218,000	5,395,000
12	Peru	5,467,041	5,389,231	5,133,927	4,776,294	4,514,239
13	Canada	5,295,484	5,364,169	5,204,548	5,419,238	5,345,626
14	Belarus	5,231,168	6,105,294	5,864,325	6,414,755	5,984,069
15	Egypt	5,215,910	5,200,563	4,960,062	4,841,040	4,113,441
16	Turkey	5,200,000	4,979,824	4,550,000	4,800,000	4,750,000
17	Algeria	4,659,482	5,020,249	4,653,322	4,606,402	4,759,677
18	Pakistan	4,552,656	4,869,312	4,591,776	3,852,897	3,977,595
19	Iran	4,474,886	3,673,984	3,574,934	4,117,462	4,995,327
20	Kazakhstan	4,006,780	3,912,103	3,806,992	3,551,114	3,545,695
21	Belgium	3,928,910	4,027,620	3,045,440	4,416,665	3,402,787
22	Brazil	3,767,769	3,711,744	3,728,953	3,655,069	3,851,396
23	Uzbekistan	3,143,818	3,089,658	2,911,933	2,793,689	2,789,476
24	Nepal	3,131,830	3,112,947	3,088,000	2,691,037	2,805,582
25	Denmark	2,762,900	2,408,700	1,806,800	2,171,000	1,954,016
26	Romania	2,698,500	2,626,790	3,022,760	3,116,912	2,689,733
27	Colombia	2,625,272	3,123,804	3,018,999	3,706,563	3,034,031
28	South Africa	2,546,996	2,505,775	2,467,724	2,456,990	2,150,811
29	Argentina	2,426,526	2,427,611	2,403,193	2,448,774	2,430,866
30	Japan	2,274,435	2,399,000	2,260,000	2,395,000	2,199,000
31	Spain	2,051,830	2,259,320	2,010,930	2,239,470	2,246,204
32	Mexico	1,943,910	1,783,896	1,802,592	1,715,499	1,796,814
33	Kenya	1,859,776	1,978,952	1,870,375	1,519,870	1,335,883
34	Morocco	1,707,068	1,956,711	1,869,149	1,924,871	1,743,617
35	Italy	1,434,650	1,338,430	1,307,600	1,346,936	1,368,920
36	Kyrgyzstan	1,327,163	1,373,800	1,446,610	1,416,011	1,388,369
37	Malawi	1,318,236	1,113,077	1,125,874	1,226,603	1,043,338
38	Bolivia	1,317,923	1,256,584	1,160,940	1,045,291	1,073,744
39	Chile	1,288,154	1,162,568	1,183,357	1,426,479	1,166,025
40	Indonesia	1,282,768	1,314,654	1,284,760	1,164,743	1,213,041
41	Nigeria	1,199,324	1,194,375	1,205,893	1,197,706	1,179,526
42	Ethiopia	1,141,872	924,528	933,109	968,970	921,403
43	Tanzania	1,078,270	1,013,408	1,080,144	583,082	1,081,454
44	Australia	1,076,780	1,225,274	1,188,655	1,105,194	1,130,175
45	Azerbaijan	1,037,637	1,004,172	898,914	913,899	902,396

100,000–1,000,000 tonnes

Rank	Country	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
46	Tajikistan	986,327	994,433	964,644	782,892	898,116
47	Austria	885,890	751,260	697,930	653,400	767,261
48	Sweden	877,200	846,900	723,000	852,500	862,500
49	Rwanda	858,521	973,408	916,062	846,184	751,284
50	Afghanistan	855,395	921,122	615,684	513,194	427,917
51	Czech Republic	696,220	622,600	583,560	688,970	699,605
52	Iraq	674,840	392,348	165,589	266,794	190,702
53	Serbia	664,891	702,086	487,909	589,241	714,350
54	North Korea	661,092	684,587	570,807	425,047	587,642
55	Syria	647,319	635,519	562,342	562,416	478,370
56	Lebanon	628,409	610,697	658,306	651,922	631,973
57	Finland	624,400	618,900	600,300	611,900	587,600
58	Guatemala	589,761	570,462	560,655	551,122	538,532
59	Saudi Arabia	561,301	472,127	425,250	476,418	466,402
60	South Korea	553,194	630,140	548,065	466,755	555,670
61	New Zealand	553,115	520,501	499,374	474,435	472,345
62	Israel	498,868	524,394	511,163	522,424	597,677
63	Sudan	493,882	465,927	439,554	418,622	415,300
64	Switzerland	490,000	413,984	447,600	461,188	372,900
65	Venezuela	488,155	465,709	445,679	421,006	452,673
66	Myanmar	483,967	485,823	488,535	499,949	554,309
67	Greece	450,640	470,210	465,770	499,506	491,973
68	Tunisia	450,000	435,000	465,000	420,000	440,000
69	Angola	446,111	455,249	458,217	461,186	670,456
70	Bosnia and Herzegovina	441,218	381,308	394,274	337,137	417,976
71	Armenia	437,226	404,057	415,050	547,420	606,314
72	Portugal	409,640	424,290	431,690	515,030	451,041
73	Ecuador	408,313	275,346	269,201	377,243	422,589
74	Libya	366,749	360,217	358,572	339,561	337,465
75	Norway	361,200	332,200	326,400	315,500	350,800
76	Cameroon	354,404	365,127	340,091	315,000	377,257
77	Mozambique	312,583	297,859	322,539	294,600	246,500
78	Uganda	309,286	326,000	327,332	299,338	171,271
79	Turkmenistan	303,982	299,074	307,934	304,937	284,349
80	Ireland	300,150	382,370	273,010	412,425	352,000
81	Lithuania	296,740	329,780	289,800	237,045	351,484
82	Burundi	294,666	376,441	302,665	204,891	145,687
83	Vietnam	294,090	333,729	376,377	303,675	302,229
84	Hungary	270,090	343,540	327,580	402,853	429,435
85	Guinea	266,866	162,213	151,326	131,588	114,424
86	Albania	254,886	260,661	254,543	249,804	238,345
87	Madagascar	247,446	250,000	257,379	250,160	244,412
88	Mongolia	244,262	192,240	168,883	121,808	165,329
89	Niger	235,635	198,392	168,569	165,743	161,181
90	Yemen	233,201	233,051	229,777	240,446	242,195
91	Mali	225,880	303,257	310,902	251,558	210,209
92	Georgia	208,600	194,700	237,500	180,100	249,000
93	North Macedonia	193,426	190,527	181,931	178,951	198,529
94	Jordan	192,746	173,653	153,199	155,639	273,906
95	Bulgaria	192,330	197,410	261,690	227,815	127,182
96	Latvia	181,100	223,700	196,200	408,300	491,600
97	Croatia	174,280	173,150	182,260	156,089	193,962
98	Moldova	171,899	176,850	174,774	197,020	213,975
99	Slovakia	166,200	182,420	169,950	149,705	177,145
100	Senegal	147,985	140,000	118,783	67,485	67,485
101	Lesotho	128,803	128,234	126,935	131,241	126,525
102	Thailand	126,864	127,935	108,291	107,103	119,778
103	Cuba	115,385	129,500	135,147	147,044	95,663
104	Philippines	113,562	116,061	117,423	117,637	116,783
105	Democratic Republic of the Congo	103,818	102,932	101,694	100,468	100,136

10,000–100,000 tonnes

Rank	Country	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
106	Dominican Republic	91,972	94,056	88,557	84,162	84,127
107	Slovenia	89,080	65,960	72,920	77,076	84,897
108	Estonia	88,390	80,130	58,030	91,182	89,842
109	Cyprus	80,300	82,100	105,330	109,923	122,803
110	Zambia	79,980	38,786	13,546	31,750	24,428
111	Uruguay	73,706	94,400	87,000	94,327	89,000
112	Nicaragua	68,817	66,858	66,169	59,699	39,919
113	Burkina Faso	66,786	70,540	63,635	58,751	70,501
114	Sri Lanka	65,085	101,642	88,897	73,358	80,458
115	Palestine	60,084	59,845	59,634	47,457	42,000
116	Taiwan	52,722	62,447	62,287	54,929	58,023
117	Costa Rica	47,619	52,824	48,748	89,620	97,979
118	Bhutan	45,500	43,560	44,278	57,223	58,820
119	Kuwait	43,619	34,807	36,212	51,771	14,986
120	Chad	39,932	40,072	41,868	41,298	37,152
121	Haiti	36,922	36,867	35,924	37,976	36,700
122	Honduras	26,781	26,565	26,643	26,237	25,500
123	Panama	26,104	25,852	24,424	21,039	31,180
124	Montenegro	23,526	26,560	26,098	27,500	29,917
125	Luxembourg	16,370	15,330	16,210	21,284	18,714
126	Oman	16,146	15,766	15,613	15,737	13,116
127	Mauritius	15,828	14,822	17,033	14,124	16,326
128	Zimbabwe	15,189	15,297	15,035	15,235	15,620
129	Jamaica	14,685	15,717	16,184	17,148	17,007
130	Namibia	14,328	14,183	14,513	14,287	13,748

<10,000 tonnes

Rank	Country	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
131	Swaziland	8,300	8,287	8,229	8,383	8,248
132	Malta	7,990	8,990	9,360	8,740	6,825
133	Iceland	7,379	8,200	6,020	9,000	9,930
134	Republic of the Congo	7,025	6,938	7,016	7,121	6,677
135	El Salvador	6,878	8,468	10,597	10,595	13,304
136	Botswana	5,260	1,800	12,335	8,765	N/A
137	United Arab Emirates	4,238	4,193	451	359	4,862
138	Paraguay	3,983	3,867	3,851	3,760	3,625
139	Laos	3,560	2,200	2,160	1,585	34,320
140	New Caledonia	2,616	2,485	2,510	1,841	1,379
141	Cape Verde	2,550	2,666	2,200	4,041	2,000
142	Mauritania	2,253	2,249	2,249	2,353	2,333
143	Faroe Islands	1,533	1,530	1,527	1,516	1,562
144	Central African Republic	1,331	1,329	1,335	1,329	1,322
145	East Timor	1,298	1,299	1,299	1,314	1,279
146	Papua New Guinea	1,219	1,223	1,220	1,214	1,236
147	Belize	1,184	1,582	1,540	1,308	986
148	Comoros	716	719	711	719	726
149	French Polynesia	557	563	568	572	563
150	Qatar	206	87	17	104	69
151	Dominica	142	142	143	142	140
152	Benin	63	96	60	98	103
153	Eritrea	54	54	54	8	37
154	Bahrain	14	30	85	75	54
–	Fiji	0	44	24	270	266

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