In 2023, the EU harvested 48.3m tonnes of potatoes, a little rise from 47.5m tons in 2022. However, there has been a long-term reduction in harvested potato production; in 2023, production was 27.9m tons lower than in 2000, representing a 36.7% decrease.

In terms of total EU potato production in 2023, Germany accounted for 11.6m tons, or 24.0% of the total, with France coming in second with 17.9% and the Netherlands third with 13.4%. In 2023, these three EU nations collectively accounted for 55.4% of the harvested potato crop in the EU.

There were 9.1m farms in the EU in 2020, of which 1m farms produced organic potatoes.

In 2020, 25,000 farms in the EU produced potatoes according to organic production methods. This represented only 2.5% of all farms producing potatoes. Austria had the highest share of farms producing potatoes organically (25.6%).