Sugar beet — Production in China, mainland
China, mainland: Sugar beet — Production was 12.41 million t in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sugar beet — Production in China, mainland, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sugar beet — production in China, mainland is 12.41 million t, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 35.5% on the previous year and up 55.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar beet — production in China, mainland peaked at 16.29 million t in 1991 and was at its lowest, 339,000 t, in 1962.
That places China, mainland 8th out of 68 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Sugar beet — Production in China, mainland, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 796,700 t | — |
| 1962 | 339,000 t | -57.4% |
| 1963 | 519,400 t | +53.2% |
| 1964 | 1.30 million t | +151.1% |
| 1965 | 1.98 million t | +52.1% |
| 1966 | 2.63 million t | +32.4% |
| 1967 | 2.60 million t | -1.0% |
| 1968 | 2.15 million t | -17.2% |
| 1969 | 2.39 million t | +10.7% |
| 1970 | 2.10 million t | -11.9% |
| 1971 | 2.13 million t | +1.1% |
| 1972 | 2.32 million t | +9.3% |
| 1973 | 2.68 million t | +15.3% |
| 1974 | 2.29 million t | -14.6% |
| 1975 | 2.48 million t | +8.2% |
| 1976 | 2.93 million t | +18.4% |
| 1977 | 2.46 million t | -16.2% |
| 1978 | 2.70 million t | +10.0% |
| 1979 | 3.11 million t | +15.0% |
| 1980 | 6.30 million t | +103.0% |
| 1981 | 6.36 million t | +0.9% |
| 1982 | 6.71 million t | +5.5% |
| 1983 | 9.18 million t | +36.8% |
| 1984 | 8.28 million t | -9.8% |
| 1985 | 8.92 million t | +7.7% |
| 1986 | 8.31 million t | -6.9% |
| 1987 | 8.14 million t | -2.0% |
| 1988 | 12.81 million t | +57.4% |
| 1989 | 9.24 million t | -27.8% |
| 1990 | 14.52 million t | +57.1% |
| 1991 | 16.29 million t | +12.2% |
| 1992 | 15.07 million t | -7.5% |
| 1993 | 12.05 million t | -20.0% |
| 1994 | 12.53 million t | +4.0% |
| 1995 | 13.98 million t | +11.6% |
| 1996 | 15.42 million t | +10.2% |
| 1997 | 14.97 million t | -2.9% |
| 1998 | 14.47 million t | -3.4% |
| 1999 | 8.64 million t | -40.3% |
| 2000 | 8.07 million t | -6.5% |
| 2001 | 10.89 million t | +34.9% |
| 2002 | 12.82 million t | +17.7% |
| 2003 | 6.18 million t | -51.8% |
| 2004 | 5.86 million t | -5.3% |
| 2005 | 7.88 million t | +34.6% |
| 2006 | 7.51 million t | -4.7% |
| 2007 | 8.93 million t | +19.0% |
| 2008 | 10.04 million t | +12.5% |
| 2009 | 7.18 million t | -28.5% |
| 2010 | 9.30 million t | +29.5% |
| 2011 | 10.73 million t | +15.4% |
| 2012 | 11.74 million t | +9.4% |
| 2013 | 9.26 million t | -21.1% |
| 2014 | 8.00 million t | -13.6% |
| 2015 | 5.09 million t | -36.4% |
| 2016 | 8.54 million t | +67.9% |
| 2017 | 9.38 million t | +9.8% |
| 2018 | 11.28 million t | +20.2% |
| 2019 | 12.27 million t | +8.8% |
| 2020 | 11.98 million t | -2.4% |
| 2021 | 7.85 million t | -34.5% |
| 2022 | 8.93 million t | +13.8% |
| 2023 | 9.16 million t | +2.5% |
| 2024 | 12.41 million t | +35.5% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sugar beet — Production in China, mainland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | +151.1% | 519,400 t | 1.30 million t |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1.63 million t | 339,000 t | 2.63 million t | 9 |
| 1970s | 2.52 million t | 2.10 million t | 3.11 million t | 10 |
| 1980s | 8.43 million t | 6.30 million t | 12.81 million t | 10 |
| 1990s | 13.79 million t | 8.64 million t | 16.29 million t | 10 |
| 2000s | 8.54 million t | 5.86 million t | 12.82 million t | 10 |
| 2010s | 9.56 million t | 5.09 million t | 12.27 million t | 10 |
| 2020s | 10.07 million t | 7.85 million t | 12.41 million t | 5 |
Countries ranked near China, mainland
- 5 Poland 18.43 million t compare
- 5 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 23,856 t compare
- 6 Egypt 13.88 million t compare
- 7 Syrian Arab Republic 6,090 t compare
- 7 Ukraine 12.80 million t compare
- 8 China 12.41 million t compare
- 10 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 7.82 million t compare
- 11 Belgium-Luxembourg 7.11 million t compare
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- Cattle fat, unrendered — Producing Animals/Slaughtered, annual growth 1.5 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cattle fat, unrendered — Production, annual growth rate 3.51 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cattle — Stocks, annual growth rate -4.4 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 0.2596 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.35 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.03 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar beet — production in China, mainland?
- Sugar beet — production in China, mainland was 12.41 million t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar beet — production recorded in China, mainland?
- The highest recorded value was 16.29 million t in 1991.
- What is the lowest sugar beet — production recorded in China, mainland?
- The lowest recorded value was 339,000 t in 1962.
- How does China, mainland rank for sugar beet — production?
- China, mainland ranks 8th out of 68 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar beet — production rising or falling in China, mainland?
- Over the last ten years it is up 55.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this China, mainland data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sugar beet — Production. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.