These tables illustrates the main information about consumption and production of potatoes across different continents in 2006.
Overall, the first table contains data of kg per person, in where Europe is the region with the most consumption and Africa is the last one but it isn’t with the lowest production. The second table shows the potato’s production, being Asia/Oceania the leaders and South and Central America with the lowest production.
Europe is the main potato consumption with 96.1 kg per person, approximatelly more than half of the rest. Follow to North America with 57.9 kg. Asia/Oceania and South and Central America are in the same range 25.8 kg and 23.6 kg respectively. Finally, Africa is the continent with the lowest consumption with 14.1 kg per person.
On the other hand, the potato production varies in several quantities. The two with the largest quantities are Asia/Oceania with 131.2 million of tonnes, and Europe with 126.3 million. The other regions, their production are well bellow 50 tonnes. North America with 24.7 million, Africa with 16.4 million and South and Central America with 15.6 million.