The table data illustrates the per person consumption and the tottal production of this crop in different region such as south and central america,africa,north america,europe and asia in year 2006.
As we can observe that people in europe eats potatoes the highest of 96.1 kg per person followed by north americans which consume 57.9 kg per person and lowest consumption of this crop is by asia 25.8 kg per person. Intresting fact that asia produce this crop highest at 131.2 in million tonnes yet people consume only 25.8 kg per person.
And when we compare two region north america and asia we can observe that north america consume more that double what they produce in year 2006 and asia is the highest potatoes producer among these region they produce 131.2 in million tonnes but they dont consume half of what they produce.