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Potato Consumption (Total)

Based on a comparison of 156 countries in 2013, China ranked the highest in potato consumption with 57,384,421 kt followed by India and USA. On the other end of the scale was Singapore with 63.6 kt, Central African Republic with 620 kt and Cambodia with 787 kt.

Average potato consumption reached 146,848 kt in 2013 in the World according to Faostat. This is 0.469 % more than in the previous year and 3.45 % more than 10 years ago.

Historically, average potato consumption reached an all time high of 153,366 kt in 1997 and an all time low of 70,426 kt in 1963. The average annual growth amounted to 1.01 % since 1961.

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Countries	Unit	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Afghanistan	kt																												259,841	241,858	249,804	192,050	168,943
Albania	kt																												99,765	98,738	100,607	104,772	124,092
Algeria	kt																												1,458,084	1,955,143	2,362,336	2,434,790	2,436,523
Angola	kt																												306,901	276,369	542,439	556,437	559,855
Argentina	kt																												1,407,298	1,347,849	1,407,521	1,371,998	1,476,827
Armenia	kt																												152,788	149,693	169,745	143,475	130,973
Australia	kt																												1,144,514	1,388,363	1,166,909	1,216,163	1,174,841
Austria	kt																												463,048	477,361	480,658	477,498	491,682
Azerbaijan	kt																												749,521	722,853	719,146	665,400	662,788
Bahamas	kt																												9,599	7,334	4,761	10,665	9,852
Bangladesh	kt																												4,243,965	5,592,690	4,325,982	6,672,314	7,017,414
Belarus	kt																												1,839,052	1,845,987	1,769,794	1,757,477	1,751,884
Belgium	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																1,013,859	952,555	982,142	924,199	1,000,043
Belize	kt																												2,973	3,418	4,000	4,244	4,137
Benin	kt																												774	1,166	1,323	2,148	1,887
Bolivia	kt																												460,130	470,610	599,821	640,506	678,434
Bosnia and Herzegovina	kt																												292,306	294,180	292,314	293,718	300,913
Botswana	kt																												25,960	26,668	10,556	18,200	18,695
Brazil	kt																												3,217,563	3,402,820	3,186,071	3,446,703	3,784,377
Brunei	kt																												4,358	4,148	4,367	5,210	5,713
Bulgaria	kt																												273,377	300,072	247,623	230,978	227,845
Burkina Faso	kt																												2,211	2,486	2,940	2,856	4,029
Cambodia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...												632	568	832	768	939
Cameroon	kt																												85,545	84,431	98,201	115,215	121,390
Canada	kt																												2,292,724	2,102,647	2,454,892	2,783,010	2,691,631
Central African Republic	kt																												626	661	534	540	575
Chad	kt																												54,855	32,880	39,589	39,534	39,319
Chile	kt																												875,446	884,194	849,940	1,003,203	1,132,301
China	kt																												46,988,522	51,233,587	51,658,865	56,815,505	57,358,505
Colombia	kt																												2,117,154	1,778,060	1,709,420	1,406,709	1,288,997
Congo	kt																												4,466	4,578	5,411	5,467	6,010
Costa Rica	kt																												72,588	77,309	86,085	70,876	80,264
Croatia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																304,042	267,608	275,694	204,263	182,848
Cuba	kt																												135,749	189,890	281,201	194,815	167,519
Cyprus	kt																												38,245	34,570	32,842	34,836	35,436
Czech Republic	kt																												703,628	715,033	739,337	768,806	805,045
Dem. People's Republic of Korea	kt																												1,282,455	1,018,104	1,045,334	1,152,447	1,187,407
Denmark	kt																												444,267	409,930	418,496	326,920	332,934
Djibouti	kt																												9,801	8,513	9,381	12,597	12,383
Dominican Republic	kt																												44,749	40,612	40,113	47,838	50,281
East Timor	kt																												1,796	2,336	1,958	1,535	1,613
Ecuador	kt																												273,652	225,500	238,837	330,503	292,428
Egypt	kt																												1,913,631	2,445,509	2,623,653	2,611,569	2,712,642
El Salvador	kt																												88,133	66,059	69,619	66,618	80,602
Estonia	kt																												152,342	111,563	131,105	144,520	147,500
Ethiopia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...															446,753	314,665	487,369	352,836	340,898
European Union	kt																												5,692	5,339	5,554	6,542	7,063
Fiji	kt																												21,186	20,122	20,316	21,810	23,388
Finland	kt																												362,482	363,995	356,499	359,619	359,490
France	kt																												3,449,970	3,597,065	3,321,024	3,544,147	3,467,460
Gabon	kt																												4,092	3,195	3,691	4,726	4,213
Gambia	kt																												6,479	6,825	4,847	7,390	2,768
Georgia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																208,897	214,407	194,545	196,307	212,475
Germany	kt																												5,922,150	5,819,159	5,783,452	5,266,768	5,728,033
Ghana	kt																												3,945	3,355	3,721	3,535	6,568
Greece	kt																												878,921	774,775	807,655	720,415	726,989
Guatemala	kt																												153,280	151,055	158,598	168,664	175,650
Guinea	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...																						12,716	12,172	43,297	38,939	17,361
Guinea Bissau	kt																												366	437	684	3,286	2,951
Guyana	kt					...	...	...	...	...	...																		8,640	8,237	10,083	10,032	9,957
Haiti	kt																												12,308	13,389	8,874	21,624	21,785
Honduras	kt																												31,641	42,160	36,077	34,116	36,901
Hungary	kt																												513,754	642,330	514,150	420,089	589,260
Iceland	kt																												18,030	16,692	17,975	19,167	18,983
India	kt																												20,768,763	25,621,624	25,502,139	26,083,551	28,419,061
Indonesia	kt																												933,854	975,466	1,112,690	1,007,221	1,018,910
Iraq	kt																												552,853	318,555	208,558	232,593	422,367
Iran	kt																												3,546,876	3,806,234	3,519,810	3,415,123	3,814,469
Ireland	kt																												412,870	420,492	408,692	413,235	407,580
Israel	kt																												242,724	298,638	290,770	275,963	295,254
Italy	kt																												2,336,055	2,237,803	2,393,381	2,417,010	2,336,199
Ivory Coast	kt																												10,659	11,012	16,990	14,837	20,467
Jamaica	kt																												28,544	23,284	26,101	25,867	32,217
Japan	kt																												2,884,271	2,838,749	2,690,663	2,596,195	2,656,020
Jordan	kt																												105,401	170,489	151,670	204,635	256,079
Kazakhstan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																1,741,196	1,698,746	1,827,850	1,849,198	1,742,041
Kenya	kt																												1,866,081	2,503,685	1,966,127	2,351,859	2,011,740
Kuwait	kt																												70,467	87,423	101,885	108,323	122,845
Kyrgyzstan	kt																												505,000	511,036	530,313	516,836	530,115
Laos	kt																												30,301	31,201	31,057	35,821	24,715
Latvia	kt																												213,342	225,412	284,057	243,127	232,130
Lebanon	kt																												424,351	385,346	347,758	255,415	229,123
Lesotho	kt																												90,540	94,050	90,900	98,100	109,800
Liberia	kt																												856	956	1,259	1,347	1,120
Lithuania	kt																												320,302	309,277	323,553	295,163	310,365
Luxembourg	kt																												24,957	22,030	25,906	31,341	31,618
Macedonia	kt																												110,212	118,003	133,300	124,612	121,034
Madagascar	kt																												125,353	125,881	129,114	129,397	129,539
Malawi	kt																												1,567,421	1,526,360	1,578,074	1,728,805	1,853,327
Malaysia	kt																												184,219	188,733	247,851	277,214	296,332
Maldives	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																			4,765	5,089	5,014	5,394	5,602
Mali	kt				...																								117,984	173,097	94,526	90,091	132,029
Malta	kt																												25,401	29,063	23,786	27,062	24,299
Mauritania	kt																												20,026	17,055	34,194	26,462	27,444
Mauritius	kt																												22,390	21,667	25,981	25,669	26,276
Mexico	kt																												1,876,922	1,781,351	1,638,135	1,697,827	1,608,123
Moldova	kt																												217,320	211,764	213,271	204,631	213,613
Mongolia	kt																												106,185	121,012	112,452	132,462	138,083
Montenegro	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...		57,429	61,433	73,357	70,967	62,521
Morocco	kt																												1,212,489	1,226,082	1,060,733	1,404,260	1,461,369
Mozambique	kt																												104,331	121,006	139,077	177,276	193,126
Myanmar	kt																												431,909	475,637	480,541	489,096	481,810
Namibia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...											33,001	28,666	32,036	34,340	37,783
Nepal	kt																												1,567,212	1,595,786	1,902,041	2,026,325	2,040,417
Netherlands	kt																												1,515,986	1,513,366	1,489,026	1,537,481	1,564,790
New Zealand	kt																												271,095	243,827	231,378	253,515	238,073
Nicaragua	kt																												38,643	39,236	36,695	39,767	33,792
Niger	kt																												28,270	19,354	28,940	32,107	23,256
Nigeria	kt																												342,615	728,902	633,601	722,905	721,258
Norway	kt																												320,965	320,878	290,070	281,152	274,400
Oman	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																		52,453	65,716	69,651	63,394	64,001
Pakistan	kt																												2,057,593	2,009,297	2,316,708	2,443,289	2,530,568
Panama	kt																												41,008	39,183	45,136	44,555	47,527
Paraguay	kt																												13,670	17,011	18,465	17,830	20,133
Peru	kt																												2,112,498	2,161,705	2,277,120	2,280,223	2,401,252
Philippines	kt																												215,163	219,141	237,578	231,520	226,833
Poland	kt																												4,618,956	4,554,667	4,476,525	4,305,713	4,382,878
Portugal	kt																												782,899	709,059	653,144	707,860	713,374
Romania	kt																												2,102,942	2,193,240	2,063,629	2,167,397	2,165,638
Russia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																15,726,330	16,138,687	16,240,660	15,093,972	15,985,645
Rwanda	kt																												922,309	1,014,387	1,065,081	1,093,026	1,112,825
Saudi Arabia	kt																												549,702	365,001	358,512	282,823	314,914
Senegal	kt																												71,457	71,993	87,062	82,367	84,591
Serbia	kt																												358,118	366,592	376,705	377,562	380,040
Sierra Leone	kt																												788	920	1,177	1,471	1,674
Singapore	kt																												54.5	53.7	56.3	59.9	61.7
Slovakia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...																						338,458	321,901	314,155	286,370	292,126
Slovenia	kt																												107,162	110,418	109,050	109,922	107,463
South Africa	kt																												1,559,737	1,619,313	1,458,834	1,663,056	1,720,640
South Korea	kt																												506,580	528,603	513,072	558,932	591,576
Spain	kt																												2,916,519	2,839,672	2,974,682	2,958,704	2,935,285
Sri Lanka	kt																												146,426	150,713	141,101	160,821	168,952
Sudan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Suriname	kt																												8,826	10,177	10,481	8,898	9,869
Swaziland	kt																												12,727	13,811	14,925	14,020	14,840
Sweden	kt																												550,660	539,799	540,779	536,268	551,019
Switzerland	kt																												294,655	329,799	339,827	339,897	330,416
Tajikistan	kt																												258,000	370,105	312,200	311,900	253,680
Tanzania	kt																												478,009	455,766	538,596	917,308	916,919
Thailand	kt																												257,096	276,175	305,709	371,789	340,222
Togo	kt																												2,928	3,446	2,420	4,719	3,405
Trinidad and Tobago	kt																												37,640	45,367	46,409	45,611	49,826
Tunisia	kt																												369,315	316,752	331,884	319,909	325,512
Turkey	kt																												3,279,071	3,406,904	3,612,987	3,745,551	3,792,758
Turkmenistan	kt																												160,000	160,000	160,000	160,000	160,000
Uganda	kt																												493,632	121,462	128,484	132,534	147,450
Ukraine	kt																												6,115,102	6,149,417	6,169,758	5,950,892	6,401,497
United Arab Emirates	kt																												112,987	145,998	74,122	70,924	97,172
United Kingdom	kt																												6,513,778	6,456,000	6,467,238	6,177,560	6,319,823
USA	kt																												16,772,372	16,143,298	16,632,416	16,118,986	16,510,717
Uruguay	kt																												111,003	109,196	111,954	124,462	108,696
Uzbekistan	kt																												1,069,000	1,258,000	1,320,000	1,460,000	1,480,000
Venezuela	kt																												478,458	438,300	498,983	499,612	550,548
Vietnam	kt																												369,811	388,822	394,080	398,177	351,232
Yemen	kt																												221,416	240,866	265,124	279,042	251,170
Zambia	kt																												16,205	12,998	23,352	25,343	27,552
Zimbabwe	kt																												42,687	45,853	50,351	61,253	53,101
World	kt																												151,480	150,606	144,213	140,399	145,394

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