Sugar beet — Production by country

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...

Countries reporting
73
Highest
65.93 million t
USSR
Lowest
0 t
Algeria
Median
849,797 t
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,770

What the numbers show

Sugar beet — Production is currently reported for 73 countries. The highest value is 65.93 million t in USSR; the lowest is 0 t in Algeria.

The median across all reporting countries is 849,797 t, and the mean is 4.96 million t.

Over the past decade 33 countries rose and 31 fell. The largest increase was in Kazakhstan (up 5,212.8%), and the largest decrease in Portugal (down 100.0%).

Sugar beet — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 USSR 65.93 million t 1991 up 8.4% rising
2 Russian Federation 46.68 million t 2024 up 39.3% rising
3 Germany 36.68 million t 2024 up 23.3% rising
4 France 32.59 million t 2024 down 13.9% rising
5 Türkiye 23.00 million t 2024 up 37.4% rising
6 Poland 18.43 million t 2024 up 36.6% flat
7 Egypt 13.88 million t 2024 up 25.7% volatile
8 Ukraine 12.80 million t 2024 down 18.7% falling
9 China 12.41 million t 2024 up 55.1% volatile
9 China, mainland 12.41 million t 2024 up 55.1% volatile
11 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 7.82 million t 2024 down 16.0% rising
12 Belgium-Luxembourg 7.11 million t 1999 up 6.7% rising
13 Yugoslav SFR 6.37 million t 1991 up 2.4% rising
14 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 6.35 million t 2024 down 6.9% rising
15 Czechoslovakia 5.41 million t 1992 down 34.1% falling
16 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 5.09 million t 2024 up 7.5% rising
17 Belarus 4.95 million t 2024 up 3.1% rising
18 Czechia 4.58 million t 2024 up 3.6% rising
19 Belgium 4.41 million t 2024 down 7.9% falling
20 Spain 3.52 million t 2024 down 5.4% falling
21 Japan 3.48 million t 2024 down 2.3% rising
22 Austria 3.43 million t 2024 down 19.1% rising
23 Serbia and Montenegro 3.10 million t 2005 up 83.1% rising
24 Denmark 2.59 million t 2024 down 3.2% flat
25 Sweden 2.12 million t 2024 up 3.1% rising
26 Serbia 1.92 million t 2024 down 45.2% falling
27 Italy 1.53 million t 2024 down 59.5% volatile
28 Canada 1.44 million t 2024 up 148.9% falling
29 Slovakia 1.39 million t 2024 down 10.4% flat
30 Kazakhstan 1.27 million t 2024 up 5,212.8% volatile
31 Morocco 1.15 million t 2024 down 64.2% rising
32 Switzerland 1.14 million t 2024 down 40.9% rising
33 Lithuania 1.12 million t 2024 up 10.4% rising
34 Kyrgyzstan 957,418 t 2024 up 451.5% volatile
35 Romania 875,120 t 2024 down 37.4% volatile
36 Hungary 856,310 t 2024 down 19.7% volatile
37 Chile 849,797 t 2024 down 50.9% volatile
38 Finland 666,600 t 2024 up 6.4% rising
39 Croatia 471,450 t 2024 down 66.1% flat
40 Republic of Moldova 292,673 t 2024 down 78.4% volatile
41 Turkmenistan 273,979 t 2024 up 45.3% rising
42 Azerbaijan 224,671 t 2024 up 29.7% volatile
43 Tunisia 86,572 t 2024 up 11.0% volatile
44 Armenia 56,457 t 2024 up 4.5% volatile
45 Iraq 35,354 t 2024 up 13.9% volatile
46 Pakistan 33,214 t 2024 up 2,454.9% volatile
47 Colombia 30,779 t 2024 up 2.0% rising
48 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 23,856 t 2024 up 13.9% rising
49 Albania 17,763 t 2024 down 52.7% volatile
50 Lebanon 10,185 t 2024 up 78.7% volatile
51 Slovenia 8,940 t 2024 volatile
52 Mali 8,558 t 2024 up 111.7% rising
53 Afghanistan 6,441 t 2024 down 43.2% volatile
54 Syrian Arab Republic 6,090 t 2024 down 90.7% volatile
55 Ecuador 4,642 t 2024 up 5.6% rising
56 North Macedonia 4,246 t 2024 down 8.9% volatile
57 Uzbekistan 1,858 t 2024 up 829.1% volatile
58 Luxembourg 1,700 t 2024 volatile
59 Greece 1,530 t 2024 down 99.7% volatile
60 Mexico 898.43 t 2024 up 8.9% volatile
61 Bosnia and Herzegovina 462.48 t 2024 down 53.8% volatile
62 Palestine 100 t 2000 down 8.3% flat
63 Portugal 0 t 2023 down 100.0% volatile
63 Ireland 0 t 2024 down 100.0% volatile
63 Israel 0 t 2009 volatile
63 Latvia 0 t 2024 volatile
63 Malta 0 t 2024 flat
63 Cyprus 0 t 2024 flat
63 Bulgaria 0 t 2021 volatile
63 Estonia 0 t 2024 volatile
63 Uruguay 0 t 2007 volatile
63 Georgia 0 t 2007 down 100.0% volatile
63 Algeria 0 t 1992 down 100.0% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Sugar beet — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
97 places, 4,770 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.