Sugar beet — Area harvested in Northern America
Northern America: Sugar beet — Area harvested was 457,590 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sugar beet — Area harvested in Northern America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Northern America recorded 457,590 ha for sugar beet — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is down 2.5% on the previous year and down 3.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar beet — area harvested in Northern America peaked at 664,561 ha in 1969 and was at its lowest, 409,040 ha, in 2019.
That places Northern America 7th out of 22 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sugar beet — Area harvested in Northern America, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 475,868 ha | — |
| 1962 | 480,627 ha | +1.0% |
| 1963 | 543,535 ha | +13.1% |
| 1964 | 605,625 ha | +11.4% |
| 1965 | 536,207 ha | -11.5% |
| 1966 | 502,763 ha | -6.2% |
| 1967 | 493,412 ha | -1.9% |
| 1968 | 615,789 ha | +24.8% |
| 1969 | 664,561 ha | +7.9% |
| 1970 | 581,030 ha | -12.6% |
| 1971 | 575,858 ha | -0.9% |
| 1972 | 569,105 ha | -1.2% |
| 1973 | 520,475 ha | -8.5% |
| 1974 | 518,050 ha | -0.5% |
| 1975 | 645,904 ha | +24.7% |
| 1976 | 631,350 ha | -2.3% |
| 1977 | 517,780 ha | -18.0% |
| 1978 | 538,340 ha | +4.0% |
| 1979 | 476,890 ha | -11.4% |
| 1980 | 507,937 ha | +6.5% |
| 1981 | 526,278 ha | +3.6% |
| 1982 | 444,200 ha | -15.6% |
| 1983 | 458,160 ha | +3.1% |
| 1984 | 471,050 ha | +2.8% |
| 1985 | 458,200 ha | -2.7% |
| 1986 | 505,500 ha | +10.3% |
| 1987 | 529,400 ha | +4.7% |
| 1988 | 547,000 ha | +3.3% |
| 1989 | 546,500 ha | -0.1% |
| 1990 | 581,400 ha | +6.4% |
| 1991 | 586,075 ha | +0.8% |
| 1992 | 593,860 ha | +1.3% |
| 1993 | 592,660 ha | -0.2% |
| 1994 | 609,500 ha | +2.8% |
| 1995 | 599,400 ha | -1.7% |
| 1996 | 558,880 ha | -6.8% |
| 1997 | 592,060 ha | +5.9% |
| 1998 | 605,280 ha | +2.2% |
| 1999 | 635,480 ha | +5.0% |
| 2000 | 572,240 ha | -10.0% |
| 2001 | 513,961 ha | -10.2% |
| 2002 | 560,762 ha | +9.1% |
| 2003 | 557,541 ha | -0.6% |
| 2004 | 543,010 ha | -2.6% |
| 2005 | 516,390 ha | -4.9% |
| 2006 | 542,554 ha | +5.1% |
| 2007 | 518,367 ha | -4.5% |
| 2008 | 413,411 ha | -20.2% |
| 2009 | 475,690 ha | +15.1% |
| 2010 | 479,160 ha | +0.7% |
| 2011 | 503,065 ha | +5.0% |
| 2012 | 497,390 ha | -1.1% |
| 2013 | 475,910 ha | -4.3% |
| 2014 | 472,000 ha | -0.8% |
| 2015 | 470,830 ha | -0.2% |
| 2016 | 467,138 ha | -0.8% |
| 2017 | 461,240 ha | -1.3% |
| 2018 | 461,900 ha | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 409,040 ha | -11.4% |
| 2020 | 477,780 ha | +16.8% |
| 2021 | 463,960 ha | -2.9% |
| 2022 | 477,530 ha | +2.9% |
| 2023 | 469,410 ha | -1.7% |
| 2024 | 457,590 ha | -2.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 546,487 ha | 475,868 ha | 664,561 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 557,478 ha | 476,890 ha | 645,904 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 499,422 ha | 444,200 ha | 547,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 595,460 ha | 558,880 ha | 635,480 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 521,393 ha | 413,411 ha | 572,240 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 469,767 ha | 409,040 ha | 503,065 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 469,254 ha | 457,590 ha | 477,780 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Northern America
- 4 France 411,630 ha compare
- 5 Poland 277,920 ha compare
- 6 Egypt 264,840 ha compare
- 7 Ukraine 253,600 ha compare
- 8 China (People’s Republic of) 217,570 ha compare
- 8 China, mainland 217,570 ha compare
- 10 Czechoslovakia 169,531 ha compare
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- Meat, Poultry — Production 24.14 million t (2024)
- Eggs Primary — Laying 411,780 1000 An (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Area harvested 1.13 million ha (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Yield 20,080 kg/ha (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Production 22.70 million t (2024)
- Meat, Poultry — Yield/Carcass Weight 2,271 g/An (2024)
- Meat, Total — Production 52.99 million t (2024)
- Milk, Total — Production 112.44 million t (2024)
- Milk, Total — Yield/Carcass Weight 10,649 kg/An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar beet — area harvested in Northern America?
- Sugar beet — area harvested in Northern America was 457,590 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar beet — area harvested recorded in Northern America?
- The highest recorded value was 664,561 ha in 1969.
- What is the lowest sugar beet — area harvested recorded in Northern America?
- The lowest recorded value was 409,040 ha in 2019.
- How does Northern America rank for sugar beet — area harvested?
- Northern America ranks 7th out of 22 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sugar beet — area harvested rising or falling in Northern America?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Northern America 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.