Sugar cane — Area harvested in Chad
Chad: Sugar cane — Area harvested was 3,360 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sugar cane — Area harvested in Chad, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Chad recorded 3,360 ha for sugar cane — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is up 2.0% on the previous year and up 6.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar cane — area harvested in Chad peaked at 3,683 ha in 2018 and was at its lowest, 400 ha, in 1961.
Chad ranks 74th of 103 countries 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 cane — Area harvested in Chad, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 400 ha | — |
| 1962 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 2,000 ha | +400.0% |
| 1977 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 1,900 ha | -5.0% |
| 1979 | 2,500 ha | +31.6% |
| 1980 | 2,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 2,982 ha | +19.3% |
| 1982 | 2,975 ha | -0.2% |
| 1983 | 3,287 ha | +10.5% |
| 1984 | 3,327 ha | +1.2% |
| 1985 | 3,373 ha | +1.4% |
| 1986 | 3,393 ha | +0.6% |
| 1987 | 3,419 ha | +0.8% |
| 1988 | 3,506 ha | +2.5% |
| 1989 | 3,471 ha | -1.0% |
| 1990 | 3,441 ha | -0.9% |
| 1991 | 3,387 ha | -1.6% |
| 1992 | 3,460 ha | +2.2% |
| 1993 | 3,517 ha | +1.6% |
| 1994 | 3,480 ha | -1.1% |
| 1995 | 3,451 ha | -0.8% |
| 1996 | 3,426 ha | -0.7% |
| 1997 | 3,476 ha | +1.5% |
| 1998 | 3,531 ha | +1.6% |
| 1999 | 3,492 ha | -1.1% |
| 2000 | 3,417 ha | -2.1% |
| 2001 | 3,392 ha | -0.7% |
| 2002 | 3,367 ha | -0.7% |
| 2003 | 3,343 ha | -0.7% |
| 2004 | 3,402 ha | +1.8% |
| 2005 | 3,397 ha | -0.1% |
| 2006 | 3,372 ha | -0.7% |
| 2007 | 3,376 ha | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 3,381 ha | +0.1% |
| 2009 | 3,384 ha | +0.1% |
| 2010 | 3,228 ha | -4.6% |
| 2011 | 3,464 ha | +7.3% |
| 2012 | 3,023 ha | -12.7% |
| 2013 | 3,664 ha | +21.2% |
| 2014 | 3,150 ha | -14.0% |
| 2015 | 3,563 ha | +13.1% |
| 2016 | 3,524 ha | -1.1% |
| 2017 | 3,645 ha | +3.4% |
| 2018 | 3,683 ha | +1.0% |
| 2019 | 3,201 ha | -13.1% |
| 2020 | 3,292 ha | +2.8% |
| 2021 | 3,372 ha | +2.4% |
| 2022 | 3,290 ha | -2.4% |
| 2023 | 3,295 ha | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 3,360 ha | +2.0% |
Chad compared with similar countries
- Chad's 3,360 ha is below the median for low income countries, which is 8,060 ha, 42% of the median. (19 countries reporting)
- Chad's 3,360 ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 18,222 ha, 18% of the median. (32 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sugar cane — Area harvested in Chad 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | +400.0% | 400 ha | 2,000 ha |
| 1979 | +31.6% | 1,900 ha | 2,500 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 400 ha | 400 ha | 400 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,080 ha | 400 ha | 2,500 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,223 ha | 2,500 ha | 3,506 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,466 ha | 3,387 ha | 3,531 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,383 ha | 3,343 ha | 3,417 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,414 ha | 3,023 ha | 3,683 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,322 ha | 3,290 ha | 3,372 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Chad
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.48 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3634 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 371.48 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 2.57 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0007 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7243 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 36.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 36.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 66.9% (1975)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.6% (1995)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar cane — area harvested in Chad?
- Sugar cane — area harvested in Chad was 3,360 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar cane — area harvested recorded in Chad?
- The highest recorded value was 3,683 ha in 2018.
- What is the lowest sugar cane — area harvested recorded in Chad?
- The lowest recorded value was 400 ha in 1961.
- How does Chad rank for sugar cane — area harvested?
- Chad ranks 74th out of 103 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar cane — area harvested rising or falling in Chad?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Chad 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.