Sugar cane — Area harvested in Madagascar
Madagascar: Sugar cane — Area harvested was 100,974 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sugar cane — Area harvested in Madagascar, 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 Madagascar is 100,974 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.3% on the previous year and up 8.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar cane — area harvested in Madagascar peaked at 102,106 ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 17,000 ha, in 1961.
Madagascar ranks 23rd of 103 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sugar cane — Area harvested in Madagascar, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 17,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 17,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 18,000 ha | +5.9% |
| 1964 | 18,295 ha | +1.6% |
| 1965 | 18,865 ha | +3.1% |
| 1966 | 19,455 ha | +3.1% |
| 1967 | 19,735 ha | +1.4% |
| 1968 | 19,675 ha | -0.3% |
| 1969 | 20,110 ha | +2.2% |
| 1970 | 21,020 ha | +4.5% |
| 1971 | 20,845 ha | -0.8% |
| 1972 | 29,735 ha | +42.6% |
| 1973 | 32,430 ha | +9.1% |
| 1974 | 33,325 ha | +2.8% |
| 1975 | 34,390 ha | +3.2% |
| 1976 | 34,140 ha | -0.7% |
| 1977 | 32,545 ha | -4.7% |
| 1978 | 33,610 ha | +3.3% |
| 1979 | 36,400 ha | +8.3% |
| 1980 | 40,195 ha | +10.4% |
| 1981 | 41,545 ha | +3.4% |
| 1982 | 47,670 ha | +14.7% |
| 1983 | 57,100 ha | +19.8% |
| 1984 | 59,050 ha | +3.4% |
| 1985 | 59,000 ha | -0.1% |
| 1986 | 59,500 ha | +0.8% |
| 1987 | 59,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 60,000 ha | +0.8% |
| 1989 | 61,400 ha | +2.3% |
| 1990 | 64,800 ha | +5.5% |
| 1991 | 63,700 ha | -1.7% |
| 1992 | 37,100 ha | -41.8% |
| 1993 | 58,900 ha | +58.8% |
| 1994 | 65,210 ha | +10.7% |
| 1995 | 65,620 ha | +0.6% |
| 1996 | 66,600 ha | +1.5% |
| 1997 | 66,000 ha | -0.9% |
| 1998 | 66,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 67,000 ha | +1.5% |
| 2000 | 67,325 ha | +0.5% |
| 2001 | 67,780 ha | +0.7% |
| 2002 | 68,235 ha | +0.7% |
| 2003 | 68,620 ha | +0.6% |
| 2004 | 69,190 ha | +0.8% |
| 2005 | 75,000 ha | +8.4% |
| 2006 | 82,000 ha | +9.3% |
| 2007 | 82,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 79,000 ha | -3.7% |
| 2009 | 95,000 ha | +20.3% |
| 2010 | 91,022 ha | -4.2% |
| 2011 | 87,559 ha | -3.8% |
| 2012 | 88,894 ha | +1.5% |
| 2013 | 90,211 ha | +1.5% |
| 2014 | 93,157 ha | +3.3% |
| 2015 | 94,681 ha | +1.6% |
| 2016 | 96,813 ha | +2.3% |
| 2017 | 98,522 ha | +1.8% |
| 2018 | 99,255 ha | +0.7% |
| 2019 | 100,460 ha | +1.2% |
| 2020 | 102,106 ha | +1.6% |
| 2021 | 100,607 ha | -1.5% |
| 2022 | 101,057 ha | +0.4% |
| 2023 | 101,257 ha | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 100,974 ha | -0.3% |
Madagascar compared with similar countries
- Madagascar's 100,974 ha is above the median for low income countries, which is 8,060 ha, 12.5× the median. (19 countries reporting)
- Madagascar's 100,974 ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 18,222 ha, 5.5× the median. (32 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sugar cane — Area harvested in Madagascar 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | +58.8% | 37,100 ha | 58,900 ha |
| 1992 | -41.8% | 63,700 ha | 37,100 ha |
| 1972 | +42.6% | 20,845 ha | 29,735 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 18,682 ha | 17,000 ha | 20,110 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 30,844 ha | 20,845 ha | 36,400 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 54,496 ha | 40,195 ha | 61,400 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 62,093 ha | 37,100 ha | 67,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 75,415 ha | 67,325 ha | 95,000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 94,057 ha | 87,559 ha | 100,460 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 101,200 ha | 100,607 ha | 102,106 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Madagascar
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.42 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.217 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 130.06 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.72 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0011 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.671 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 21.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 21.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.3% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar cane — area harvested in Madagascar?
- Sugar cane — area harvested in Madagascar was 100,974 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar cane — area harvested recorded in Madagascar?
- The highest recorded value was 102,106 ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest sugar cane — area harvested recorded in Madagascar?
- The lowest recorded value was 17,000 ha in 1961.
- How does Madagascar rank for sugar cane — area harvested?
- Madagascar ranks 23rd out of 103 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar cane — area harvested rising or falling in Madagascar?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Madagascar 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.