Sugar cane — Area harvested in Eswatini
Eswatini: Sugar cane — Area harvested was 60,000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sugar cane — Area harvested in Eswatini, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Eswatini recorded 60,000 ha for sugar cane — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 6.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar cane — area harvested in Eswatini peaked at 60,000 ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 5,452 ha, in 1961.
That places Eswatini 38th out of 113 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,942 ha | 5,452 ha | 14,164 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 17,010 ha | 13,558 ha | 21,920 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 33,739 ha | 25,829 ha | 36,244 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 39,059 ha | 36,503 ha | 40,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 48,160 ha | 36,500 ha | 52,233 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 56,509 ha | 52,937 ha | 59,080 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 58,570 ha | 56,936 ha | 60,000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eswatini
- 35 Bangladesh 67,723 ha compare
- 36 Sudan 62,527 ha compare
- 37 Sudan (former) 60,480 ha compare
- 39 Costa Rica 58,301 ha compare
- 40 Nepal 55,440 ha compare
- 41 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 53,542 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Eswatini
- Agriculture share gdp 6.41 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.41 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 6.2% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2023)
- Rural population 73.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.4% (2025)
- Rural population 920,507 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 330.70 million current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 30,363 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar cane — area harvested in Eswatini?
- Sugar cane — area harvested in Eswatini was 60,000 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar cane — area harvested recorded in Eswatini?
- The highest recorded value was 60,000 ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest sugar cane — area harvested recorded in Eswatini?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,452 ha in 1961.
- How does Eswatini rank for sugar cane — area harvested?
- Eswatini ranks 38th out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar cane — area harvested rising or falling in Eswatini?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eswatini 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.