Sugar beet — Yield in Ireland
Ireland: Sugar beet — Yield was 57,252 kg/ha in 2017. ▲ Rising
Sugar beet — Yield in Ireland, 1961–2017
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sugar beet — yield in Ireland is 57,252 kg/ha, measured in 2017.
That represents a change of up 3.4% on the previous year and up 27.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar beet — yield in Ireland peaked at 59,852 kg/ha in 2004 and was at its lowest, 26,643 kg/ha, in 1963.
Ireland ranks 26th of 70 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 57 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 32,095 kg/ha | 26,643 kg/ha | 42,124 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 39,439 kg/ha | 32,159 kg/ha | 43,776 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 41,496 kg/ha | 34,432 kg/ha | 48,539 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 44,801 kg/ha | 34,689 kg/ha | 51,028 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 49,121 kg/ha | 41,556 kg/ha | 59,852 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 54,110 kg/ha | 52,091 kg/ha | 57,252 kg/ha | 8 |
Countries ranked near Ireland
More agriculture & rural data for Ireland
- Agriculture share gdp 1.06 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.06 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2024)
- Rural population 35.4% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.0% (2025)
- Rural population 1.94 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 7.63 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 0 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar beet — yield in Ireland?
- Sugar beet — yield in Ireland was 57,252 kg/ha in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar beet — yield recorded in Ireland?
- The highest recorded value was 59,852 kg/ha in 2004.
- What is the lowest sugar beet — yield recorded in Ireland?
- The lowest recorded value was 26,643 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Ireland rank for sugar beet — yield?
- Ireland ranks 26th out of 70 countries with data for 2017.
- Is sugar beet — yield rising or falling in Ireland?
- Over the last ten years it is up 27.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ireland 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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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.