China vs India: Sugar cane — Yield
Sugar cane — Yield over time
- China
- India
How they compare
China currently reports 80,791 kg/ha against 78,953 kg/ha in India, a difference of 1,838 kg/ha.
The two have swapped places 13 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was India ahead.
China ranks 25th and India ranks 27th of 113 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, China averaged higher in 1 and India in 6.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | China | India | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 45,210 kg/ha | 44,679 kg/ha | 530.73 kg/ha | China |
| 1970s | 42,674 kg/ha | 50,648 kg/ha | 7,974 kg/ha | India |
| 1980s | 55,954 kg/ha | 57,708 kg/ha | 1,755 kg/ha | India |
| 1990s | 59,354 kg/ha | 68,126 kg/ha | 8,772 kg/ha | India |
| 2000s | 65,874 kg/ha | 66,398 kg/ha | 524.26 kg/ha | India |
| 2010s | 72,024 kg/ha | 72,087 kg/ha | 63.3 kg/ha | India |
| 2020s | 80,853 kg/ha | 82,254 kg/ha | 1,401 kg/ha | India |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sugar cane — yield, China or India?
- China, at 80,791 kg/ha against 78,953 kg/ha in India as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sugar cane — yield between China and India?
- 1,838 kg/ha, with China ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for China and India?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do China and India rank globally for sugar cane — yield?
- China ranks 25th and India ranks 27th of 113 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Sugar cane — Yield. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.