Sugar beet — Yield in Africa
Africa: Sugar beet — Yield was 52,356 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sugar beet — Yield in Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Africa recorded 52,356 kg/ha for sugar beet — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 3.9% on the previous year and down 2.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar beet — yield in Africa peaked at 69,768 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 14,528 kg/ha, in 1965.
Africa ranks 16th of 22 groups 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 — Yield in Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 19,633 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 20,684 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1963 | 19,406 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1964 | 17,343 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 1965 | 14,528 kg/ha | -16.2% |
| 1966 | 24,292 kg/ha | +67.2% |
| 1967 | 18,169 kg/ha | -25.2% |
| 1968 | 27,623 kg/ha | +52.0% |
| 1969 | 27,567 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1970 | 30,145 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 1971 | 35,931 kg/ha | +19.2% |
| 1972 | 27,113 kg/ha | -24.5% |
| 1973 | 27,605 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1974 | 32,640 kg/ha | +18.2% |
| 1975 | 27,982 kg/ha | -14.3% |
| 1976 | 33,997 kg/ha | +21.5% |
| 1977 | 30,304 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 1978 | 38,538 kg/ha | +27.2% |
| 1979 | 33,549 kg/ha | -12.9% |
| 1980 | 34,033 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1981 | 35,980 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1982 | 38,713 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1983 | 36,841 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 1984 | 43,373 kg/ha | +17.7% |
| 1985 | 37,525 kg/ha | -13.5% |
| 1986 | 43,550 kg/ha | +16.1% |
| 1987 | 44,805 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1988 | 46,962 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1989 | 44,806 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1990 | 45,853 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1991 | 46,140 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1992 | 51,358 kg/ha | +11.3% |
| 1993 | 48,454 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1994 | 48,922 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1995 | 46,048 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 1996 | 46,513 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1997 | 42,060 kg/ha | -9.6% |
| 1998 | 51,465 kg/ha | +22.4% |
| 1999 | 50,395 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2000 | 51,936 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2001 | 50,506 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2002 | 49,590 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2003 | 50,967 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2004 | 51,044 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2005 | 48,146 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 2006 | 50,594 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2007 | 51,332 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2008 | 48,805 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 2009 | 50,003 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2010 | 57,749 kg/ha | +15.5% |
| 2011 | 52,725 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 2012 | 51,941 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2013 | 52,810 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2014 | 53,781 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2015 | 53,903 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 52,074 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2017 | 52,553 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2018 | 53,885 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2019 | 51,115 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 2020 | 69,768 kg/ha | +36.5% |
| 2021 | 50,472 kg/ha | -27.7% |
| 2022 | 49,734 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2023 | 50,373 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2024 | 52,356 kg/ha | +3.9% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sugar beet — Yield in Africa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | +67.2% | 14,528 kg/ha | 24,292 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 21,027 kg/ha | 14,528 kg/ha | 27,623 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 31,780 kg/ha | 27,113 kg/ha | 38,538 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 40,659 kg/ha | 34,033 kg/ha | 46,962 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 47,721 kg/ha | 42,060 kg/ha | 51,465 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 50,292 kg/ha | 48,146 kg/ha | 51,936 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 53,254 kg/ha | 51,115 kg/ha | 57,749 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 54,541 kg/ha | 49,734 kg/ha | 69,768 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Africa
- 13 Kyrgyzstan 71,004 kg/ha compare
- 14 Belgium-Luxembourg 70,283 kg/ha compare
- 15 Lithuania 69,861 kg/ha compare
- 16 Czechia 69,560 kg/ha compare
- 17 Switzerland 67,753 kg/ha compare
- 18 Israel 67,192 kg/ha compare
- 19 Poland 66,315 kg/ha compare
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- Cereals, primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.38 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 1.64 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 1.86 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 1.72 % change on previous year (2024)
- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 2.94 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 2.21 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) 1.84 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.44 % change on previous year (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar beet — yield in Africa?
- Sugar beet — yield in Africa was 52,356 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar beet — yield recorded in Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 69,768 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest sugar beet — yield recorded in Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 14,528 kg/ha in 1965.
- How does Africa rank for sugar beet — yield?
- Africa ranks 16th out of 22 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sugar beet — yield rising or falling in Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sugar beet — Yield. 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.