Sugar cane — Area harvested in Mauritius
Mauritius: Sugar cane — Area harvested was 34,759 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sugar cane — Area harvested in Mauritius, 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 Mauritius is 34,759 ha, measured in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of down 3.1% on the previous year and down 31.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar cane — area harvested in Mauritius peaked at 82,618 ha in 1966 and was at its lowest, 34,759 ha, in 2024.
That places Mauritius 47th out of 113 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 81,166 ha | 79,052 ha | 82,618 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 80,318 ha | 79,733 ha | 81,039 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 78,067 ha | 76,785 ha | 79,879 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 73,751 ha | 71,800 ha | 76,303 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 68,195 ha | 60,380 ha | 73,197 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 52,024 ha | 45,054 ha | 58,709 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 39,086 ha | 34,759 ha | 43,711 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Mauritius
- Agriculture share gdp 4.62 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 4.62 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.4% (2024)
- Rural population 61.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.2% (2025)
- Rural population 758,222 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 745.90 million current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 10,843 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar cane — area harvested in Mauritius?
- Sugar cane — area harvested in Mauritius was 34,759 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar cane — area harvested recorded in Mauritius?
- The highest recorded value was 82,618 ha in 1966.
- What is the lowest sugar cane — area harvested recorded in Mauritius?
- The lowest recorded value was 34,759 ha in 2024.
- How does Mauritius rank for sugar cane — area harvested?
- Mauritius ranks 47th out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar cane — area harvested rising or falling in Mauritius?
- Over the last ten years it is down 31.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Mauritius 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.