Sugar beet — Area harvested in Ecuador
Ecuador: Sugar beet — Area harvested was 728 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sugar beet — Area harvested in Ecuador, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sugar beet — area harvested in Ecuador is 728 ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.1% on the previous year and up 0.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar beet — area harvested in Ecuador peaked at 977 ha in 2003 and was at its lowest, 60 ha, in 1990.
Ecuador ranks 45th of 68 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sugar beet — Area harvested in Ecuador, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 215 ha | — |
| 1962 | 216 ha | +0.5% |
| 1963 | 269 ha | +24.5% |
| 1964 | 291 ha | +8.2% |
| 1965 | 277 ha | -4.8% |
| 1966 | 293 ha | +5.8% |
| 1967 | 297 ha | +1.4% |
| 1968 | 507 ha | +70.7% |
| 1969 | 528 ha | +4.1% |
| 1970 | 518 ha | -1.9% |
| 1971 | 231 ha | -55.4% |
| 1972 | 355 ha | +53.7% |
| 1973 | 427 ha | +20.3% |
| 1974 | 461 ha | +8.0% |
| 1975 | 464 ha | +0.7% |
| 1976 | 576 ha | +24.1% |
| 1977 | 142 ha | -75.3% |
| 1978 | 129 ha | -9.2% |
| 1979 | 200 ha | +55.0% |
| 1980 | 230 ha | +15.0% |
| 1981 | 341 ha | +48.3% |
| 1982 | 701 ha | +105.6% |
| 1983 | 653 ha | -6.8% |
| 1984 | 826 ha | +26.5% |
| 1985 | 763 ha | -7.6% |
| 1986 | 738 ha | -3.3% |
| 1987 | 723 ha | -2.0% |
| 1988 | 220 ha | -69.6% |
| 1989 | 290 ha | +31.8% |
| 1990 | 60 ha | -79.3% |
| 1991 | 140 ha | +133.3% |
| 1992 | 260 ha | +85.7% |
| 1993 | 410 ha | +57.7% |
| 1994 | 290 ha | -29.3% |
| 1995 | 340 ha | +17.2% |
| 1996 | 350 ha | +2.9% |
| 1997 | 547 ha | +56.3% |
| 1998 | 329 ha | -39.9% |
| 1999 | 328 ha | -0.3% |
| 2000 | 419 ha | +27.7% |
| 2001 | 396 ha | -5.5% |
| 2002 | 957 ha | +141.7% |
| 2003 | 977 ha | +2.1% |
| 2004 | 510 ha | -47.8% |
| 2005 | 536 ha | +5.1% |
| 2006 | 540 ha | +0.7% |
| 2007 | 600 ha | +11.1% |
| 2008 | 600 ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 600 ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 684 ha | +14.0% |
| 2011 | 713 ha | +4.2% |
| 2012 | 672 ha | -5.8% |
| 2013 | 681 ha | +1.3% |
| 2014 | 722 ha | +6.0% |
| 2015 | 749 ha | +3.7% |
| 2016 | 717 ha | -4.3% |
| 2017 | 729 ha | +1.7% |
| 2018 | 732 ha | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 726 ha | -0.8% |
| 2020 | 729 ha | +0.4% |
| 2021 | 729 ha | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 728 ha | -0.1% |
| 2023 | 729 ha | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 728 ha | -0.1% |
Ecuador compared with similar countries
- Ecuador's 728 ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 3,638 ha, 20% of the median. (17 countries reporting)
- Ecuador's 728 ha is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 728 ha, 1.0× the median. (5 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sugar beet — Area harvested in Ecuador changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | +141.7% | 396 ha | 957 ha |
| 1991 | +133.3% | 60 ha | 140 ha |
| 1982 | +105.6% | 341 ha | 701 ha |
| 1992 | +85.7% | 140 ha | 260 ha |
| 1990 | -79.3% | 290 ha | 60 ha |
| 1977 | -75.3% | 576 ha | 142 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 321.44 ha | 215 ha | 528 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 350.3 ha | 129 ha | 576 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 548.5 ha | 220 ha | 826 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 305.4 ha | 60 ha | 547 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 613.5 ha | 396 ha | 977 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 712.5 ha | 672 ha | 749 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 728.6 ha | 728 ha | 729 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Ecuador
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.59 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.097 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 691.36 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4287 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3661 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 9.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 9.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar beet — area harvested in Ecuador?
- Sugar beet — area harvested in Ecuador was 728 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar beet — area harvested recorded in Ecuador?
- The highest recorded value was 977 ha in 2003.
- What is the lowest sugar beet — area harvested recorded in Ecuador?
- The lowest recorded value was 60 ha in 1990.
- How does Ecuador rank for sugar beet — area harvested?
- Ecuador ranks 45th out of 68 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar beet — area harvested rising or falling in Ecuador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ecuador data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sugar beet — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.