Sugar cane — Yield in Western Asia
Western Asia: Sugar cane — Yield was 5,794 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sugar cane — Yield in Western Asia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sugar cane — yield in Western Asia stood at 5,794 kg/ha. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is down 13.6% on the previous year and down 60.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar cane — yield in Western Asia peaked at 55,739 kg/ha in 1981 and was at its lowest, 5,794 kg/ha, in 2024.
Western Asia ranks 25th of 25 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Sugar cane — Yield in Western Asia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 16,769 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 15,659 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 1963 | 19,396 kg/ha | +23.9% |
| 1964 | 14,888 kg/ha | -23.2% |
| 1965 | 12,601 kg/ha | -15.4% |
| 1966 | 11,862 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 1967 | 11,354 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1968 | 11,101 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1969 | 10,914 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1970 | 51,448 kg/ha | +371.4% |
| 1971 | 41,251 kg/ha | -19.8% |
| 1972 | 27,384 kg/ha | -33.6% |
| 1973 | 29,339 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1974 | 33,952 kg/ha | +15.7% |
| 1975 | 26,929 kg/ha | -20.7% |
| 1976 | 42,033 kg/ha | +56.1% |
| 1977 | 46,451 kg/ha | +10.5% |
| 1978 | 46,825 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1979 | 54,345 kg/ha | +16.1% |
| 1980 | 45,631 kg/ha | -16.0% |
| 1981 | 55,739 kg/ha | +22.2% |
| 1982 | 43,034 kg/ha | -22.8% |
| 1983 | 27,318 kg/ha | -36.5% |
| 1984 | 19,370 kg/ha | -29.1% |
| 1985 | 29,115 kg/ha | +50.3% |
| 1986 | 29,694 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1987 | 33,562 kg/ha | +13.0% |
| 1988 | 21,801 kg/ha | -35.0% |
| 1989 | 28,388 kg/ha | +30.2% |
| 1990 | 25,982 kg/ha | -8.5% |
| 1991 | 25,291 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1992 | 28,224 kg/ha | +11.6% |
| 1993 | 18,708 kg/ha | -33.7% |
| 1994 | 18,784 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1995 | 17,212 kg/ha | -8.4% |
| 1996 | 15,795 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 1997 | 15,465 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1998 | 13,428 kg/ha | -13.2% |
| 1999 | 13,426 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2000 | 13,417 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2001 | 11,818 kg/ha | -11.9% |
| 2002 | 10,769 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 2003 | 18,375 kg/ha | +70.6% |
| 2004 | 24,084 kg/ha | +31.1% |
| 2005 | 26,192 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 2006 | 21,716 kg/ha | -17.1% |
| 2007 | 23,800 kg/ha | +9.6% |
| 2008 | 21,556 kg/ha | -9.4% |
| 2009 | 23,801 kg/ha | +10.4% |
| 2010 | 20,193 kg/ha | -15.2% |
| 2011 | 19,518 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 2012 | 20,364 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2013 | 16,788 kg/ha | -17.6% |
| 2014 | 14,705 kg/ha | -12.4% |
| 2015 | 17,971 kg/ha | +22.2% |
| 2016 | 17,915 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2017 | 16,961 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 2018 | 10,312 kg/ha | -39.2% |
| 2019 | 10,312 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 10,714 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2021 | 8,828 kg/ha | -17.6% |
| 2022 | 7,687 kg/ha | -12.9% |
| 2023 | 6,703 kg/ha | -12.8% |
| 2024 | 5,794 kg/ha | -13.6% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sugar cane — Yield in Western Asia changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | +371.4% | 10,914 kg/ha | 51,448 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 13,838 kg/ha | 10,914 kg/ha | 19,396 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 39,996 kg/ha | 26,929 kg/ha | 54,345 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 33,365 kg/ha | 19,370 kg/ha | 55,739 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 19,231 kg/ha | 13,426 kg/ha | 28,224 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 19,553 kg/ha | 10,769 kg/ha | 26,192 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 16,504 kg/ha | 10,312 kg/ha | 20,364 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 7,945 kg/ha | 5,794 kg/ha | 10,714 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar cane — yield in Western Asia?
- Sugar cane — yield in Western Asia was 5,794 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar cane — yield recorded in Western Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 55,739 kg/ha in 1981.
- What is the lowest sugar cane — yield recorded in Western Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,794 kg/ha in 2024.
- How does Western Asia rank for sugar cane — yield?
- Western Asia ranks 25th out of 25 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sugar cane — yield rising or falling in Western Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 60.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Western Asia 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.