Sugar cane — Yield in Melanesia
Melanesia: Sugar cane — Yield was 34,696 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sugar cane — Yield in Melanesia, 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 Melanesia is 34,696 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 21.0% on the previous year and down 23.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar cane — yield in Melanesia peaked at 66,541 kg/ha in 1963 and was at its lowest, 32,893 kg/ha, in 1961.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sugar cane — Yield in Melanesia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 32,893 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 52,145 kg/ha | +58.5% |
| 1963 | 66,541 kg/ha | +27.6% |
| 1964 | 56,554 kg/ha | -15.0% |
| 1965 | 51,559 kg/ha | -8.8% |
| 1966 | 51,354 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1967 | 49,316 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1968 | 61,854 kg/ha | +25.4% |
| 1969 | 50,455 kg/ha | -18.4% |
| 1970 | 62,448 kg/ha | +23.8% |
| 1971 | 53,687 kg/ha | -14.0% |
| 1972 | 51,150 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1973 | 54,982 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1974 | 47,841 kg/ha | -13.0% |
| 1975 | 48,043 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1976 | 48,560 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1977 | 51,371 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1978 | 52,775 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1979 | 65,430 kg/ha | +24.0% |
| 1980 | 50,867 kg/ha | -22.3% |
| 1981 | 58,819 kg/ha | +15.6% |
| 1982 | 59,248 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1983 | 39,748 kg/ha | -32.9% |
| 1984 | 62,690 kg/ha | +57.7% |
| 1985 | 44,048 kg/ha | -29.7% |
| 1986 | 59,555 kg/ha | +35.2% |
| 1987 | 42,824 kg/ha | -28.1% |
| 1988 | 50,382 kg/ha | +17.7% |
| 1989 | 63,801 kg/ha | +26.6% |
| 1990 | 57,493 kg/ha | -9.9% |
| 1991 | 47,926 kg/ha | -16.6% |
| 1992 | 49,152 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1993 | 50,620 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1994 | 54,291 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1995 | 55,056 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1996 | 50,610 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1997 | 47,238 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 1998 | 40,969 kg/ha | -13.3% |
| 1999 | 57,219 kg/ha | +39.7% |
| 2000 | 56,871 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2001 | 48,315 kg/ha | -15.0% |
| 2002 | 49,877 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2003 | 46,935 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 2004 | 49,108 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 2005 | 49,138 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2006 | 52,812 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 2007 | 45,328 kg/ha | -14.2% |
| 2008 | 44,571 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2009 | 42,070 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 2010 | 38,858 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 2011 | 44,307 kg/ha | +14.0% |
| 2012 | 36,447 kg/ha | -17.7% |
| 2013 | 40,978 kg/ha | +12.4% |
| 2014 | 45,068 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 2015 | 42,371 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 2016 | 34,532 kg/ha | -18.5% |
| 2017 | 39,964 kg/ha | +15.7% |
| 2018 | 41,882 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 2019 | 42,905 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2020 | 40,955 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2021 | 37,753 kg/ha | -7.8% |
| 2022 | 37,667 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2023 | 43,921 kg/ha | +16.6% |
| 2024 | 34,696 kg/ha | -21.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 52,519 kg/ha | 32,893 kg/ha | 66,541 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 53,629 kg/ha | 47,841 kg/ha | 65,430 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 53,198 kg/ha | 39,748 kg/ha | 63,801 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 51,057 kg/ha | 40,969 kg/ha | 57,493 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 48,503 kg/ha | 42,070 kg/ha | 56,871 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 40,731 kg/ha | 34,532 kg/ha | 45,068 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 38,998 kg/ha | 34,696 kg/ha | 43,921 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
- 11 Nicaragua 95,372 kg/ha compare
- 12 Eswatini 92,233 kg/ha compare
- 13 Chad 91,588 kg/ha compare
- 13 Democratic Republic of the Congo 34,972 kg/ha compare
- 14 Colombia 89,218 kg/ha compare
- 15 Portugal 88,822 kg/ha compare
- 16 French Polynesia 88,620 kg/ha compare
- 17 Australia 87,657 kg/ha compare
- 17 Australia and New Zealand 87,657 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar cane — yield in Melanesia?
- Sugar cane — yield in Melanesia was 34,696 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar cane — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 66,541 kg/ha in 1963.
- What is the lowest sugar cane — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 32,893 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Melanesia rank for sugar cane — yield?
- Melanesia ranks 14th out of 14 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar cane — yield rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 23.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Melanesia 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.