Sugar cane — Production by country
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...
What the numbers show
Sugar cane — Production is currently reported for 113 countries. The highest value is 759.66 million t in Brazil; the lowest is 0 t in Syrian Arab Republic.
The median across all reporting countries is 1.16 million t, and the mean is 18.15 million t.
Over the past decade 53 countries rose and 58 fell. The largest increase was in Angola (up 163.2%), and the largest decrease in Antigua and Barbuda (down 100.0%).
Sugar cane — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brazil | 759.66 million t | 2024 | up 3.2% | volatile |
| 2 | India | 453.16 million t | 2024 | up 28.7% | rising |
| 3 | China | 102.57 million t | 2024 | down 18.7% | volatile |
| 4 | China, mainland | 102.09 million t | 2024 | down 18.7% | volatile |
| 5 | Pakistan | 84.24 million t | 2024 | up 34.1% | rising |
| 6 | Thailand | 82.44 million t | 2024 | down 20.5% | volatile |
| 7 | Mexico | 53.05 million t | 2024 | down 6.4% | rising |
| 8 | Indonesia | 32.00 million t | 2024 | up 18.1% | rising |
| 9 | Colombia | 31.86 million t | 2024 | down 16.5% | rising |
| 10 | Australia | 29.86 million t | 2024 | down 2.2% | rising |
| 10 | Australia and New Zealand | 29.86 million t | 2024 | down 2.2% | rising |
| 12 | Guatemala | 22.91 million t | 2024 | down 31.1% | volatile |
| 13 | Philippines | 18.69 million t | 2024 | down 25.3% | falling |
| 14 | Caribbean | 16.11 million t | 2024 | down 38.9% | volatile |
| 15 | Egypt | 13.31 million t | 2024 | down 17.1% | rising |
| 16 | Argentina | 12.26 million t | 2024 | down 41.7% | rising |
| 17 | Peru | 12.04 million t | 2024 | down 12.6% | rising |
| 18 | Myanmar | 12.00 million t | 2024 | up 7.8% | volatile |
| 19 | Viet Nam | 11.84 million t | 2024 | down 40.3% | volatile |
| 20 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 11.45 million t | 2024 | up 50.7% | volatile |
| 21 | Kenya | 9.37 million t | 2024 | up 46.1% | rising |
| 22 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 9.15 million t | 2024 | up 38.9% | volatile |
| 23 | Cuba | 9.05 million t | 2024 | down 49.2% | volatile |
| 24 | El Salvador | 7.31 million t | 2024 | up 7.8% | rising |
| 25 | Nicaragua | 6.96 million t | 2023 | up 3.5% | volatile |
| 26 | Paraguay | 6.86 million t | 2024 | up 7.7% | volatile |
| 27 | Zimbabwe | 6.62 million t | 2024 | up 71.6% | rising |
| 28 | Ecuador | 6.38 million t | 2024 | down 22.7% | rising |
| 29 | Uganda | 6.10 million t | 2024 | up 31.3% | volatile |
| 30 | Sudan (former) | 6.06 million t | 2011 | up 10.0% | volatile |
| 31 | Honduras | 5.75 million t | 2024 | up 6.7% | volatile |
| 32 | Eswatini | 5.53 million t | 2024 | up 1.7% | rising |
| 33 | Dominican Republic | 4.95 million t | 2024 | down 1.7% | falling |
| 34 | Zambia | 4.89 million t | 2024 | up 6.4% | volatile |
| 35 | Sudan | 4.22 million t | 2024 | down 27.3% | falling |
| 36 | Costa Rica | 4.14 million t | 2024 | down 7.9% | rising |
| 37 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 3.66 million t | 2024 | down 43.6% | rising |
| 38 | United Republic of Tanzania | 3.34 million t | 2024 | up 19.4% | rising |
| 39 | Madagascar | 3.16 million t | 2024 | up 7.3% | rising |
| 40 | Malawi | 2.97 million t | 2024 | down 9.1% | volatile |
| 41 | Bangladesh | 2.93 million t | 2024 | down 34.9% | falling |
| 42 | Nepal | 2.76 million t | 2024 | down 7.9% | volatile |
| 43 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 2.51 million t | 2024 | up 22.6% | rising |
| 44 | Mauritius | 2.20 million t | 2024 | down 45.7% | falling |
| 45 | Côte d'Ivoire | 2.16 million t | 2024 | up 9.8% | volatile |
| 46 | Panama | 1.85 million t | 2024 | down 25.5% | rising |
| 47 | Mozambique | 1.79 million t | 2024 | down 50.6% | volatile |
| 48 | Belize | 1.67 million t | 2024 | up 37.5% | rising |
| 49 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 1.64 million t | 2024 | down 10.7% | volatile |
| 50 | Melanesia | 1.64 million t | 2024 | down 24.8% | falling |
| 51 | Ethiopia PDR | 1.60 million t | 1992 | up 16.6% | rising |
| 52 | Haiti | 1.54 million t | 2024 | up 1.1% | falling |
| 53 | Nigeria | 1.51 million t | 2024 | up 6.8% | rising |
| 54 | Fiji | 1.33 million t | 2024 | down 27.3% | falling |
| 55 | Senegal | 1.31 million t | 2024 | up 31.8% | volatile |
| 56 | Angola | 1.29 million t | 2024 | up 163.2% | rising |
| 57 | Japan | 1.16 million t | 2024 | down 0.1% | falling |
| 58 | Ethiopia | 997,296 t | 2024 | down 35.9% | falling |
| 59 | Cameroon | 872,377 t | 2024 | down 26.8% | volatile |
| 60 | Trinidad and Tobago | 810,000 t | 2007 | down 42.9% | falling |
| 61 | Guadeloupe | 787,286 t | 2006 | up 30.6% | falling |
| 62 | Sri Lanka | 696,971 t | 2024 | down 27.4% | volatile |
| 63 | Congo | 677,152 t | 2024 | up 7.9% | rising |
| 64 | Cambodia | 645,720 t | 2024 | down 58.1% | volatile |
| 65 | Mali | 585,215 t | 2024 | up 64.6% | volatile |
| 66 | Uruguay | 541,167 t | 2024 | up 12.3% | rising |
| 67 | Burkina Faso | 516,138 t | 2024 | up 8.0% | volatile |
| 68 | Niger | 476,922 t | 2024 | up 110.2% | volatile |
| 69 | China, Taiwan Province of | 474,537 t | 2024 | down 12.5% | volatile |
| 70 | Jamaica | 428,896 t | 2024 | down 75.9% | falling |
| 71 | Morocco | 366,460 t | 2024 | up 31.6% | volatile |
| 72 | Guinea | 321,921 t | 2024 | up 7.3% | volatile |
| 73 | Guyana | 320,978 t | 2024 | down 88.7% | falling |
| 74 | Chad | 307,701 t | 2024 | up 6.7% | volatile |
| 75 | Papua New Guinea | 306,330 t | 2024 | down 12.5% | volatile |
| 76 | Liberia | 279,690 t | 2024 | up 5.2% | rising |
| 77 | Gabon | 273,073 t | 2024 | down 3.0% | volatile |
| 78 | Somalia | 215,200 t | 2024 | down 6.4% | falling |
| 79 | Martinique | 165,101 t | 2006 | down 23.5% | volatile |
| 80 | Ghana | 156,723 t | 2024 | up 5.2% | rising |
| 81 | Rwanda | 156,259 t | 2024 | up 54.6% | volatile |
| 82 | Burundi | 139,352 t | 2024 | down 32.6% | volatile |
| 83 | Suriname | 91,128 t | 2024 | down 24.1% | falling |
| 84 | Sierra Leone | 83,182 t | 2024 | up 6.9% | volatile |
| 85 | Benin | 80,553 t | 2024 | up 7.4% | volatile |
| 86 | Barbados | 64,871 t | 2024 | down 59.4% | volatile |
| 87 | Bahamas | 63,848 t | 2024 | up 7.3% | rising |
| 88 | Afghanistan | 53,326 t | 2024 | down 29.0% | flat |
| 89 | Puerto Rico | 40,000 t | 2002 | down 94.5% | volatile |
| 90 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 24,000 t | 1990 | up 113.3% | volatile |
| 91 | Cabo Verde | 22,040 t | 2024 | down 22.3% | rising |
| 92 | Malaysia | 16,925 t | 2024 | up 85.0% | volatile |
| 93 | Guinea-Bissau | 7,008 t | 2024 | up 8.7% | rising |
| 94 | French Guiana | 6,967 t | 2006 | up 41.8% | falling |
| 95 | Portugal | 5,500 t | 2017 | up 7.8% | volatile |
| 96 | Grenada | 5,236 t | 2024 | down 27.8% | falling |
| 97 | Dominica | 4,908 t | 2024 | up 2.2% | falling |
| 98 | Polynesia | 3,584 t | 2024 | up 2.0% | rising |
| 99 | French Polynesia | 3,572 t | 2024 | up 2.1% | rising |
| 100 | Oman | 1,746 t | 2024 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 101 | Spain | 1,100 t | 2017 | up 110.7% | volatile |
| 102 | Bhutan | 280.62 t | 2024 | down 13.4% | volatile |
| 103 | Brunei Darussalam | 56 t | 2024 | — | falling |
| 104 | Djibouti | 55.8 t | 2024 | up 7.3% | volatile |
| 105 | Samoa | 11.93 t | 2024 | down 0.1% | falling |
| 106 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0 t | 1992 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 106 | Iraq | 0 t | 2021 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 106 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0 t | 2006 | down 100.0% | falling |
| 106 | Lebanon | 0 t | 2007 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 106 | Saint Lucia | 0 t | 1966 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 106 | Singapore | 0 t | 1992 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 106 | Yemen | 0 t | 1997 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Syrian Arab Republic | 0 t | 2001 | down 100.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 1.94 billion t
- Americas 996.61 million t
- South America 845.12 million t
- Asia 816.00 million t
- Southern Asia 552.99 million t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 218.85 million t
- South-eastern Asia 159.28 million t
- Central America 103.78 million t
- Eastern Asia 103.73 million t
- Africa 95.68 million t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 58.67 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 57.45 million t
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.