Sugar cane — Yield in Portugal
Portugal: Sugar cane — Yield was 88,822 kg/ha in 2017. ▲ Rising
Sugar cane — Yield in Portugal, 1961–2017
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sugar cane — yield in Portugal is 88,822 kg/ha, measured in 2017. That is the highest value across all 57 years on record.
The figure is up 0.5% on the previous year and up 4.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar cane — yield in Portugal peaked at 88,822 kg/ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 16,894 kg/ha, in 1980.
Portugal ranks 16th of 113 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 57 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 38,153 kg/ha | 35,881 kg/ha | 41,342 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 28,332 kg/ha | 18,906 kg/ha | 40,494 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 33,026 kg/ha | 16,894 kg/ha | 79,755 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 79,270 kg/ha | 72,920 kg/ha | 80,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 81,917 kg/ha | 80,000 kg/ha | 85,833 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 87,187 kg/ha | 85,000 kg/ha | 88,822 kg/ha | 8 |
Countries ranked near Portugal
- 13 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 91,950 kg/ha compare
- 14 Chad 91,588 kg/ha compare
- 15 Colombia 89,218 kg/ha compare
- 17 French Polynesia 88,620 kg/ha compare
- 18 Australia 87,657 kg/ha compare
- 18 Australia and New Zealand 87,657 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Portugal
- Agriculture share gdp 1.96 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.96 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.9% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.4% (2025)
- Rural population 38.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.6% (2025)
- Rural population 4.16 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.0% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.79 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 30,230 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar cane — yield in Portugal?
- Sugar cane — yield in Portugal was 88,822 kg/ha in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar cane — yield recorded in Portugal?
- The highest recorded value was 88,822 kg/ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest sugar cane — yield recorded in Portugal?
- The lowest recorded value was 16,894 kg/ha in 1980.
- How does Portugal rank for sugar cane — yield?
- Portugal ranks 16th out of 113 countries with data for 2017.
- Is sugar cane — yield rising or falling in Portugal?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Portugal 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.