Sugar cane — Yield in Middle Africa
Middle Africa: Sugar cane — Yield was 37,216 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sugar cane — Yield in Middle Africa, 1961–2024
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
| 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
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | 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
- 9 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 54,718 kg/ha compare
- 9 Sudan (former) 100,119 kg/ha compare
- 10 El Salvador 95,809 kg/ha compare
- 10 Lao People's Democratic Republic 49,357 kg/ha compare
- 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
- 14 Melanesia 34,696 kg/ha compare
- 15 Portugal 88,822 kg/ha compare
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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.
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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.