Sugar cane — Production in Guyana
Guyana: Sugar cane — Production was 320,978 t in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sugar cane — Production in Guyana, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Guyana recorded 320,978 t for sugar cane — production in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of down 52.7% on the previous year and down 88.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar cane — production in Guyana peaked at 4.31 million t in 1971 and was at its lowest, 320,978 t, in 2024.
That places Guyana 73rd 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 | 3.58 million t | 3.04 million t | 4.18 million t | 9 |
| 1970s | 3.83 million t | 3.29 million t | 4.31 million t | 10 |
| 1980s | 3.39 million t | 2.54 million t | 4.19 million t | 10 |
| 1990s | 3.06 million t | 2.70 million t | 3.24 million t | 10 |
| 2000s | 3.13 million t | 2.71 million t | 3.74 million t | 10 |
| 2010s | 2.33 million t | 1.12 million t | 3.20 million t | 10 |
| 2020s | 749,457 t | 320,978 t | 1.22 million t | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Guyana
- Agriculture share gdp 7.73 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 7.73 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.1% (2025)
- Rural population 73.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.6% (2025)
- Rural population 614,522 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 7.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.10 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 21,136 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar cane — production in Guyana?
- Sugar cane — production in Guyana was 320,978 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar cane — production recorded in Guyana?
- The highest recorded value was 4.31 million t in 1971.
- What is the lowest sugar cane — production recorded in Guyana?
- The lowest recorded value was 320,978 t in 2024.
- How does Guyana rank for sugar cane — production?
- Guyana ranks 73rd out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar cane — production rising or falling in Guyana?
- Over the last ten years it is down 88.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Guyana data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sugar cane — Production. 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.