Sugar cane — Area harvested in Paraguay
Paraguay: Sugar cane — Area harvested was 110,000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sugar cane — Area harvested in Paraguay, 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 Paraguay is 110,000 ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 0.5% on the previous year and down 6.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar cane — area harvested in Paraguay peaked at 120,000 ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 20,600 ha, in 1968.
Paraguay ranks 24th of 113 countries on this measure, 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 | 24,144 ha | 20,600 ha | 26,800 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 32,986 ha | 28,000 ha | 40,500 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 52,958 ha | 36,600 ha | 63,500 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 57,336 ha | 55,637 ha | 61,173 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 71,646 ha | 52,399 ha | 100,000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 112,406 ha | 100,000 ha | 120,000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 104,187 ha | 90,333 ha | 110,600 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Paraguay
- 21 Egypt 124,299 ha compare
- 22 Peru 118,456 ha compare
- 23 Dominican Republic 110,649 ha compare
- 24 Réunion 25,569 ha compare
- 25 Madagascar 100,974 ha compare
- 26 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 99,524 ha compare
- 27 Nigeria 88,518 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Paraguay
- Agriculture share gdp 11.64 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 11.64 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2025)
- Rural population 29.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.6% (2025)
- Rural population 2.08 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 11.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.74 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 88,870 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar cane — area harvested in Paraguay?
- Sugar cane — area harvested in Paraguay was 110,000 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar cane — area harvested recorded in Paraguay?
- The highest recorded value was 120,000 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest sugar cane — area harvested recorded in Paraguay?
- The lowest recorded value was 20,600 ha in 1968.
- How does Paraguay rank for sugar cane — area harvested?
- Paraguay ranks 24th out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar cane — area harvested rising or falling in Paraguay?
- Over the last ten years it is down 6.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Paraguay 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.