Sugar cane — Area harvested in Caribbean
Caribbean: Sugar cane — Area harvested was 415,713 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sugar cane — Area harvested in Caribbean, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sugar cane — area harvested in Caribbean is 415,713 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 40.4% on the previous year and down 27.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar cane — area harvested in Caribbean peaked at 1.95 million ha in 1970 and was at its lowest, 296,006 ha, in 2023.
Caribbean ranks 10th of 113 groups on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1.54 million ha | 1.40 million ha | 1.78 million ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1.69 million ha | 1.56 million ha | 1.95 million ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1.70 million ha | 1.59 million ha | 1.82 million ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.59 million ha | 1.22 million ha | 1.82 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 833,699 ha | 503,948 ha | 1.28 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 578,185 ha | 482,953 ha | 663,052 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 427,704 ha | 296,006 ha | 555,577 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Caribbean
More agriculture & rural data for Caribbean
- Bananas — Area harvested 150,870 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 2.72 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 136,188 t (2024)
- Cabbages — Area harvested 8,527 ha (2024)
- Cabbages — Yield 19,733 kg/ha (2024)
- Cabbages — Production 168,261 t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production 7,589 t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 1.91 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 13,712 t (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 1.91 million An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar cane — area harvested in Caribbean?
- Sugar cane — area harvested in Caribbean was 415,713 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar cane — area harvested recorded in Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 1.95 million ha in 1970.
- What is the lowest sugar cane — area harvested recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 296,006 ha in 2023.
- How does Caribbean rank for sugar cane — area harvested?
- Caribbean ranks 10th out of 113 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sugar cane — area harvested rising or falling in Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is down 27.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Caribbean data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sugar cane — 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.