Sugar cane — Yield in Malaysia
Malaysia: Sugar cane — Yield was 18,098 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sugar cane — Yield in Malaysia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sugar cane — yield in Malaysia is 18,098 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 7.4% on the previous year and down 53.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar cane — yield in Malaysia peaked at 74,728 kg/ha in 1999 and was at its lowest, 14,422 kg/ha, in 1971.
That places Malaysia 106th out of 113 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 31,575 kg/ha | 29,898 kg/ha | 33,898 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 33,939 kg/ha | 14,422 kg/ha | 50,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 50,527 kg/ha | 40,000 kg/ha | 59,681 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 66,660 kg/ha | 54,121 kg/ha | 74,728 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 42,966 kg/ha | 34,204 kg/ha | 51,450 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 28,707 kg/ha | 16,768 kg/ha | 47,349 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 18,177 kg/ha | 15,247 kg/ha | 20,046 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Malaysia
More agriculture & rural data for Malaysia
- Agriculture share gdp 8.22 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 8.22 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2025)
- Rural population 22.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 8.13 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.2% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 38.79 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 335,444 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar cane — yield in Malaysia?
- Sugar cane — yield in Malaysia was 18,098 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar cane — yield recorded in Malaysia?
- The highest recorded value was 74,728 kg/ha in 1999.
- What is the lowest sugar cane — yield recorded in Malaysia?
- The lowest recorded value was 14,422 kg/ha in 1971.
- How does Malaysia rank for sugar cane — yield?
- Malaysia ranks 106th out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar cane — yield rising or falling in Malaysia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 53.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Malaysia 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.