Sugar cane — Area harvested in Cuba
Cuba: Sugar cane — Area harvested was 270,361 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sugar cane — Area harvested in Cuba, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Cuba recorded 270,361 ha for sugar cane — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 86.1% on the previous year and down 33.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar cane — area harvested in Cuba peaked at 1.50 million ha in 1970 and was at its lowest, 145,293 ha, in 2023.
Cuba ranks 14th of 103 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sugar cane — Area harvested in Cuba, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1.26 million ha | — |
| 1962 | 1.13 million ha | -10.2% |
| 1963 | 1.06 million ha | -6.0% |
| 1964 | 1.00 million ha | -5.8% |
| 1965 | 1.05 million ha | +5.2% |
| 1966 | 1.01 million ha | -4.6% |
| 1967 | 1.07 million ha | +6.4% |
| 1968 | 1.08 million ha | +0.5% |
| 1969 | 968,000 ha | -10.0% |
| 1970 | 1.50 million ha | +54.7% |
| 1971 | 1.35 million ha | -9.6% |
| 1972 | 1.25 million ha | -7.6% |
| 1973 | 1.16 million ha | -7.6% |
| 1974 | 1.19 million ha | +3.0% |
| 1975 | 1.18 million ha | -0.8% |
| 1976 | 1.23 million ha | +3.8% |
| 1977 | 1.14 million ha | -7.2% |
| 1978 | 1.24 million ha | +8.7% |
| 1979 | 1.31 million ha | +6.1% |
| 1980 | 1.39 million ha | +6.0% |
| 1981 | 1.21 million ha | -13.1% |
| 1982 | 1.33 million ha | +9.8% |
| 1983 | 1.20 million ha | -9.6% |
| 1984 | 1.35 million ha | +12.4% |
| 1985 | 1.35 million ha | -0.1% |
| 1986 | 1.33 million ha | -1.4% |
| 1987 | 1.36 million ha | +2.2% |
| 1988 | 1.30 million ha | -4.5% |
| 1989 | 1.35 million ha | +4.1% |
| 1990 | 1.42 million ha | +5.2% |
| 1991 | 1.45 million ha | +2.2% |
| 1992 | 1.45 million ha | -0.0% |
| 1993 | 1.21 million ha | -16.5% |
| 1994 | 1.25 million ha | +3.1% |
| 1995 | 1.18 million ha | -5.7% |
| 1996 | 1.24 million ha | +5.7% |
| 1997 | 1.25 million ha | +0.1% |
| 1998 | 1.05 million ha | -15.9% |
| 1999 | 995,800 ha | -5.0% |
| 2000 | 1.04 million ha | +4.5% |
| 2001 | 1.01 million ha | -3.2% |
| 2002 | 1.04 million ha | +3.4% |
| 2003 | 643,800 ha | -38.2% |
| 2004 | 661,000 ha | +2.7% |
| 2005 | 517,200 ha | -21.8% |
| 2006 | 397,100 ha | -23.2% |
| 2007 | 329,500 ha | -17.0% |
| 2008 | 380,300 ha | +15.4% |
| 2009 | 434,700 ha | +14.3% |
| 2010 | 431,400 ha | -0.8% |
| 2011 | 506,100 ha | +17.3% |
| 2012 | 361,300 ha | -28.6% |
| 2013 | 400,300 ha | +10.8% |
| 2014 | 405,200 ha | +1.2% |
| 2015 | 435,600 ha | +7.5% |
| 2016 | 421,600 ha | -3.2% |
| 2017 | 496,174 ha | +17.7% |
| 2018 | 314,400 ha | -36.6% |
| 2019 | 392,900 ha | +25.0% |
| 2020 | 393,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 348,000 ha | -11.5% |
| 2022 | 213,600 ha | -38.6% |
| 2023 | 145,293 ha | -32.0% |
| 2024 | 270,361 ha | +86.1% |
Cuba compared with similar countries
- Cuba's 270,361 ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 76,332 ha, 3.5× the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Cuba's 270,361 ha is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 30,500 ha, 8.9× the median. (31 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sugar cane — Area harvested in Cuba 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | +86.1% | 145,293 ha | 270,361 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1.07 million ha | 968,000 ha | 1.26 million ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1.25 million ha | 1.14 million ha | 1.50 million ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1.32 million ha | 1.20 million ha | 1.39 million ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.25 million ha | 995,800 ha | 1.45 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 645,280 ha | 329,500 ha | 1.04 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 416,497 ha | 314,400 ha | 506,100 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 274,051 ha | 145,293 ha | 393,000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Cuba
- 11 Colombia 357,070 ha compare
- 11 Melanesia 47,271 ha compare
- 12 Australia 340,590 ha compare
- 12 Lao People's Democratic Republic 33,300 ha compare
- 12 Australia and New Zealand 340,590 ha compare
- 13 Caribbean 415,713 ha compare
- 13 Polynesia 41 ha compare
- 14 Syrian Arab Republic 0 ha compare
- 15 South Africa 242,267 ha compare
- 16 Guatemala 218,690 ha compare
- 17 Myanmar 178,646 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Cuba
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -19.64 % change on previous year (2020)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0276 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2020)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 265.29 current US$ per person (2020)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.6522 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2020)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2277 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.2% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 1.2% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.5% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2022)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar cane — area harvested in Cuba?
- Sugar cane — area harvested in Cuba was 270,361 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar cane — area harvested recorded in Cuba?
- The highest recorded value was 1.50 million ha in 1970.
- What is the lowest sugar cane — area harvested recorded in Cuba?
- The lowest recorded value was 145,293 ha in 2023.
- How does Cuba rank for sugar cane — area harvested?
- Cuba ranks 14th out of 103 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar cane — area harvested rising or falling in Cuba?
- Over the last ten years it is down 33.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Cuba 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.