Sugar cane — Yield in Middle Africa

Middle Africa: Sugar cane — Yield was 37,216 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising

Latest (2024)
37,216 kg/ha
Change on year
down 1.6%
Rank
12th
of 14 groups
All-time high
41,810 kg/ha
in 2017
All-time low
16,557 kg/ha
in 1986
Years of data
64
1961–2024

Sugar cane — Yield in Middle Africa, 1961–2024

010.0k20.0k30.0k40.0k196119922024

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.

Analysis

In 2024, sugar cane — yield in Middle Africa stood at 37,216 kg/ha.

That represents a change of down 1.6% on the previous year and up 0.2% over ten years.

Over the whole period, sugar cane — yield in Middle Africa peaked at 41,810 kg/ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 16,557 kg/ha, in 1986.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.

Sugar cane — Yield in Middle Africa, year by year

Annual values for Sugar cane — Yield in Middle Africa, 1961 to 2024.
Year kg/ha Change
1961 37,052 kg/ha —
1962 39,842 kg/ha +7.5%
1963 32,898 kg/ha -17.4%
1964 39,307 kg/ha +19.5%
1965 40,663 kg/ha +3.5%
1966 35,802 kg/ha -12.0%
1967 38,977 kg/ha +8.9%
1968 33,940 kg/ha -12.9%
1969 33,092 kg/ha -2.5%
1970 30,455 kg/ha -8.0%
1971 28,865 kg/ha -5.2%
1972 27,567 kg/ha -4.5%
1973 29,419 kg/ha +6.7%
1974 23,632 kg/ha -19.7%
1975 22,229 kg/ha -5.9%
1976 22,277 kg/ha +0.2%
1977 20,349 kg/ha -8.7%
1978 18,165 kg/ha -10.7%
1979 20,162 kg/ha +11.0%
1980 23,180 kg/ha +15.0%
1981 27,670 kg/ha +19.4%
1982 23,825 kg/ha -13.9%
1983 18,365 kg/ha -22.9%
1984 17,223 kg/ha -6.2%
1985 17,152 kg/ha -0.4%
1986 16,557 kg/ha -3.5%
1987 18,038 kg/ha +8.9%
1988 18,291 kg/ha +1.4%
1989 19,332 kg/ha +5.7%
1990 19,834 kg/ha +2.6%
1991 20,394 kg/ha +2.8%
1992 23,981 kg/ha +17.6%
1993 26,265 kg/ha +9.5%
1994 27,863 kg/ha +6.1%
1995 30,531 kg/ha +9.6%
1996 31,472 kg/ha +3.1%
1997 32,070 kg/ha +1.9%
1998 33,311 kg/ha +3.9%
1999 33,027 kg/ha -0.9%
2000 33,694 kg/ha +2.0%
2001 33,318 kg/ha -1.1%
2002 32,394 kg/ha -2.8%
2003 33,284 kg/ha +2.7%
2004 33,466 kg/ha +0.5%
2005 33,682 kg/ha +0.6%
2006 34,166 kg/ha +1.4%
2007 36,354 kg/ha +6.4%
2008 37,527 kg/ha +3.2%
2009 38,091 kg/ha +1.5%
2010 38,582 kg/ha +1.3%
2011 37,718 kg/ha -2.2%
2012 37,576 kg/ha -0.4%
2013 37,896 kg/ha +0.9%
2014 37,147 kg/ha -2.0%
2015 38,816 kg/ha +4.5%
2016 38,598 kg/ha -0.6%
2017 41,810 kg/ha +8.3%
2018 40,965 kg/ha -2.0%
2019 41,483 kg/ha +1.3%
2020 41,083 kg/ha -1.0%
2021 39,657 kg/ha -3.5%
2022 38,514 kg/ha -2.9%
2023 37,829 kg/ha -1.8%
2024 37,216 kg/ha -1.6%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1960s 36,841 kg/ha 32,898 kg/ha 40,663 kg/ha 9
1970s 24,312 kg/ha 18,165 kg/ha 30,455 kg/ha 10
1980s 19,963 kg/ha 16,557 kg/ha 27,670 kg/ha 10
1990s 27,875 kg/ha 19,834 kg/ha 33,311 kg/ha 10
2000s 34,598 kg/ha 32,394 kg/ha 38,091 kg/ha 10
2010s 39,059 kg/ha 37,147 kg/ha 41,810 kg/ha 10
2020s 38,860 kg/ha 37,216 kg/ha 41,083 kg/ha 5

Countries ranked near Middle Africa

  1. 9 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 54,718 kg/ha compare
  2. 9 Sudan (former) 100,119 kg/ha compare
  3. 10 El Salvador 95,809 kg/ha compare
  4. 10 Lao People's Democratic Republic 49,357 kg/ha compare
  5. 11 Nicaragua 95,372 kg/ha compare
  6. 12 Eswatini 92,233 kg/ha compare
  7. 13 Chad 91,588 kg/ha compare
  8. 13 Democratic Republic of the Congo 34,972 kg/ha compare
  9. 14 Colombia 89,218 kg/ha compare
  10. 14 Melanesia 34,696 kg/ha compare
  11. 15 Portugal 88,822 kg/ha compare

See the full ranking of 142 places →

More agriculture & rural data for Middle Africa

All data for Middle Africa →

Frequently asked questions

What is sugar cane — yield in Middle Africa?
Sugar cane — yield in Middle Africa was 37,216 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest sugar cane — yield recorded in Middle Africa?
The highest recorded value was 41,810 kg/ha in 2017.
What is the lowest sugar cane — yield recorded in Middle Africa?
The lowest recorded value was 16,557 kg/ha in 1986.
How does Middle Africa rank for sugar cane — yield?
Middle Africa ranks 12th out of 14 groups with data for 2024.
Is sugar cane — yield rising or falling in Middle Africa?
Over the last ten years it is up 0.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Middle Africa 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.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 64 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Sugar cane — Yield in Middle Africa. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 30 September 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/stat/sugar-cane-yield/middle-africa/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/stat/sugar-cane-yield/middle-africa/">Sugar cane — Yield in Middle Africa</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Sugar cane — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
142 places, 8,155 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.