Sugar cane — Yield in China, mainland
China, mainland: Sugar cane — Yield was 80,871 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sugar cane — Yield in China, mainland, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
China, mainland recorded 80,871 kg/ha for sugar cane — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.2% on the previous year and up 13.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar cane — yield in China, mainland peaked at 82,652 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 22,357 kg/ha, in 1962.
That places China, mainland 21st out of 103 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sugar cane — Yield in China, mainland, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 22,642 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 22,357 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1963 | 42,400 kg/ha | +89.6% |
| 1964 | 39,741 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 1965 | 38,214 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1966 | 33,035 kg/ha | -13.6% |
| 1967 | 36,960 kg/ha | +11.9% |
| 1968 | 32,245 kg/ha | -12.8% |
| 1969 | 32,003 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1970 | 34,746 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1971 | 30,842 kg/ha | -11.2% |
| 1972 | 34,437 kg/ha | +11.7% |
| 1973 | 33,613 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1974 | 33,352 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1975 | 31,850 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1976 | 30,734 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1977 | 35,030 kg/ha | +14.0% |
| 1978 | 38,500 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 1979 | 42,024 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 1980 | 47,614 kg/ha | +13.3% |
| 1981 | 53,864 kg/ha | +13.1% |
| 1982 | 56,507 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1983 | 47,655 kg/ha | -15.7% |
| 1984 | 54,284 kg/ha | +13.9% |
| 1985 | 53,419 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1986 | 52,923 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1987 | 55,202 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1988 | 53,100 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1989 | 50,854 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1990 | 57,118 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 1991 | 58,345 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1992 | 58,606 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1993 | 59,012 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1994 | 57,668 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1995 | 58,133 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1996 | 56,470 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1997 | 60,158 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1998 | 59,550 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1999 | 57,338 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 2000 | 57,626 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2001 | 60,625 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 2002 | 64,664 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 2003 | 64,023 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2004 | 65,199 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2005 | 63,970 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2006 | 70,450 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 2007 | 71,228 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2008 | 71,210 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2009 | 68,094 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 2010 | 65,700 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2011 | 66,485 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2012 | 68,600 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2013 | 70,576 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2014 | 71,352 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 72,537 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2016 | 73,620 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2017 | 76,132 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2018 | 76,892 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2019 | 78,655 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2020 | 79,888 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2021 | 81,047 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2022 | 80,192 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2023 | 82,652 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2024 | 80,871 kg/ha | -2.2% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sugar cane — Yield in China, mainland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | +89.6% | 22,357 kg/ha | 42,400 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 33,288 kg/ha | 22,357 kg/ha | 42,400 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 34,513 kg/ha | 30,734 kg/ha | 42,024 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 52,542 kg/ha | 47,614 kg/ha | 56,507 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 58,240 kg/ha | 56,470 kg/ha | 60,158 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 65,709 kg/ha | 57,626 kg/ha | 71,228 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 72,055 kg/ha | 65,700 kg/ha | 78,655 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 80,930 kg/ha | 79,888 kg/ha | 82,652 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar cane — yield in China, mainland?
- Sugar cane — yield in China, mainland was 80,871 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar cane — yield recorded in China, mainland?
- The highest recorded value was 82,652 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest sugar cane — yield recorded in China, mainland?
- The lowest recorded value was 22,357 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does China, mainland rank for sugar cane — yield?
- China, mainland ranks 21st out of 103 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar cane — yield rising or falling in China, mainland?
- Over the last ten years it is up 13.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this China, mainland data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sugar cane — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.