Sugar cane — Area harvested in Egypt
Egypt: Sugar cane — Area harvested was 124,299 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sugar cane — Area harvested in Egypt, 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 Egypt is 124,299 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 6.4% on the previous year and down 10.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar cane — area harvested in Egypt peaked at 217,625 ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 47,000 ha, in 1961.
That places Egypt 21st out of 113 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 57,158 ha | 47,000 ha | 71,414 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 92,114 ha | 78,135 ha | 104,688 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 108,456 ha | 102,500 ha | 115,652 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 120,847 ha | 110,584 ha | 129,084 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 135,568 ha | 131,059 ha | 140,783 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 137,362 ha | 134,538 ha | 139,451 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 151,723 ha | 124,299 ha | 217,625 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Egypt
More agriculture & rural data for Egypt
- Agriculture share gdp 16.55 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.55 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.1% (2024)
- Rural population 57.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.4% (2025)
- Rural population 67.58 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 60.46 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 1.25 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar cane — area harvested in Egypt?
- Sugar cane — area harvested in Egypt was 124,299 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar cane — area harvested recorded in Egypt?
- The highest recorded value was 217,625 ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest sugar cane — area harvested recorded in Egypt?
- The lowest recorded value was 47,000 ha in 1961.
- How does Egypt rank for sugar cane — area harvested?
- Egypt ranks 21st out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar cane — area harvested rising or falling in Egypt?
- Over the last ten years it is down 10.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Egypt 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.