Sugar cane — Yield in Ghana
Ghana: Sugar cane — Yield was 24,297 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sugar cane — Yield in Ghana, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Ghana recorded 24,297 kg/ha for sugar cane — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.2% on the previous year and down 2.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar cane — yield in Ghana peaked at 53,192 kg/ha in 1973 and was at its lowest, 5,311 kg/ha, in 1966.
Ghana ranks 99th of 113 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 15,842 kg/ha | 5,311 kg/ha | 20,093 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 40,351 kg/ha | 30,000 kg/ha | 53,192 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 25,320 kg/ha | 17,727 kg/ha | 32,302 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 26,659 kg/ha | 24,864 kg/ha | 27,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 25,450 kg/ha | 25,439 kg/ha | 25,454 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 24,882 kg/ha | 24,494 kg/ha | 25,439 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 24,370 kg/ha | 24,297 kg/ha | 24,415 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Ghana
- Agriculture share gdp 21.28 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 21.28 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2023)
- Rural population 41.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.5% (2025)
- Rural population 14.40 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 21.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 24.30 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 135,063 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar cane — yield in Ghana?
- Sugar cane — yield in Ghana was 24,297 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar cane — yield recorded in Ghana?
- The highest recorded value was 53,192 kg/ha in 1973.
- What is the lowest sugar cane — yield recorded in Ghana?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,311 kg/ha in 1966.
- How does Ghana rank for sugar cane — yield?
- Ghana ranks 99th out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar cane — yield rising or falling in Ghana?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Ghana 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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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.