The table illustrates the consumption and production of potatoes in 5 different world regions in 2006.
It’s clear that people in Europe have biggest number of kg per person while Asia have biggest quantity of potato among these regions.
People in Europe got 96.1 kg per person for each year. By contrast, Africa and South America have 14,1 and 23,6 kg per person respectively which is lowest numbers. North America have almost 2 times bigger number than Asia and numbers is 57,9 kg and 25,8 kg per person.
Asia and Oceania have largest potato production and quantity of this region was 131,2 million tonnes. The second largest region is Europe with 126,3 million tonnes. South. America and Africa have same 15,6 and 16,4 million tonnes which is 8 times less compared to Asia and Europe. North America have 5 times lower than those two countries and quantity was 24,7 million tonnes.
