French Polynesia vs South Africa: Sugar cane — Yield

French Polynesia
88,620 kg/ha
in 2024
South Africa
69,101 kg/ha
in 2024
French Polynesia rank
17th
South Africa rank
17th

Sugar cane — Yield over time

  • French Polynesia
  • South Africa
025.0k50.0k75.0k100.0k196119922024

How they compare

French Polynesia currently reports 88,620 kg/ha against 69,101 kg/ha in South Africa, a difference of 19,519 kg/ha.

That makes French Polynesia's figure about 1.3 times South Africa's.

The two have swapped places 13 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was South Africa ahead.

French Polynesia ranks 17th and South Africa ranks 17th of 113 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, French Polynesia averaged higher in 5 and South Africa in 2.

Head to head by decade

Decade French Polynesia South Africa Difference Ahead
1960s 76,046 kg/ha 80,982 kg/ha 4,937 kg/ha South Africa
1970s 77,097 kg/ha 88,047 kg/ha 10,950 kg/ha South Africa
1980s 74,989 kg/ha 71,132 kg/ha 3,857 kg/ha French Polynesia
1990s 71,103 kg/ha 63,226 kg/ha 7,876 kg/ha French Polynesia
2000s 75,000 kg/ha 66,424 kg/ha 8,576 kg/ha French Polynesia
2010s 83,919 kg/ha 65,887 kg/ha 18,032 kg/ha French Polynesia
2020s 87,628 kg/ha 70,255 kg/ha 17,373 kg/ha French Polynesia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sugar cane — yield, French Polynesia or South Africa?
French Polynesia, at 88,620 kg/ha against 69,101 kg/ha in South Africa as of 2024.
What is the difference in sugar cane — yield between French Polynesia and South Africa?
19,519 kg/ha, with French Polynesia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for French Polynesia and South Africa?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do French Polynesia and South Africa rank globally for sugar cane — yield?
French Polynesia ranks 17th and South Africa ranks 17th 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.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

French Polynesia vs South Africa: Sugar cane — Yield. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 17 August 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/sugar-cane-yield/french-polynesia/south-africa/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/sugar-cane-yield/french-polynesia/south-africa/">French Polynesia vs South Africa: Sugar cane — Yield</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Sugar cane — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
142 places, 8,155 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.