Europe vs India: Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested

Europe
3.14 million ha
in 2024
India
5.74 million ha
in 2024
Europe rank
6th
India rank
2nd

Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested over time

  • Europe
  • India
2.0M4.0M6.0M8.0M196119922024

How they compare

India currently reports 5.74 million ha against 3.14 million ha in Europe, a difference of 2.60 million ha.

That makes India's figure about 1.8 times Europe's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Europe ahead.

Europe ranks 6th and India ranks 2nd of 29 regions.

Across the 7 decades both report, Europe averaged higher in 4 and India in 3.

Head to head by decade

Decade Europe India Difference Ahead
1960s 6.60 million ha 2.41 million ha 4.19 million ha Europe
1970s 7.08 million ha 2.77 million ha 4.31 million ha Europe
1980s 7.05 million ha 3.04 million ha 4.01 million ha Europe
1990s 5.61 million ha 3.81 million ha 1.80 million ha Europe
2000s 3.77 million ha 4.39 million ha 614,722 ha India
2010s 3.21 million ha 4.84 million ha 1.63 million ha India
2020s 2.98 million ha 5.25 million ha 2.27 million ha India

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sugar crops primary — area harvested, Europe or India?
India, at 5.74 million ha against 3.14 million ha in Europe as of 2024.
What is the difference in sugar crops primary — area harvested between Europe and India?
2.60 million ha, with India ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Europe and India?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Europe and India rank globally for sugar crops primary — area harvested?
Europe ranks 6th and India ranks 2nd of 29 regions.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
200 places, 10,929 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.