China vs India: Sugar Crops Primary — Yield
Sugar Crops Primary — Yield over time
- China
- India
How they compare
India currently reports 78,953 kg/ha against 77,317 kg/ha in China, a difference of 1,636 kg/ha.
The two have swapped places 10 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was India ahead.
China ranks 30th and India ranks 27th of 164 countries.
India has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | China | India | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 35,214 kg/ha | 44,679 kg/ha | 9,465 kg/ha | India |
| 1970s | 31,621 kg/ha | 50,648 kg/ha | 19,027 kg/ha | India |
| 1980s | 40,635 kg/ha | 57,708 kg/ha | 17,074 kg/ha | India |
| 1990s | 46,852 kg/ha | 68,126 kg/ha | 21,274 kg/ha | India |
| 2000s | 60,803 kg/ha | 66,398 kg/ha | 5,595 kg/ha | India |
| 2010s | 69,866 kg/ha | 72,087 kg/ha | 2,222 kg/ha | India |
| 2020s | 78,032 kg/ha | 82,254 kg/ha | 4,223 kg/ha | India |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sugar crops primary — yield, China or India?
- India, at 78,953 kg/ha against 77,317 kg/ha in China as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sugar crops primary — yield between China and India?
- 1,636 kg/ha, with India 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 crops primary — yield?
- China ranks 30th and India ranks 27th of 164 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Sugar Crops Primary — 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.