Sugar cane — Yield in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Sugar cane — Yield was 83,000 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sugar cane — Yield in Zimbabwe, 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 Zimbabwe is 83,000 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.2% on the previous year and down 7.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar cane — yield in Zimbabwe peaked at 125,303 kg/ha in 1986 and was at its lowest, 59,778 kg/ha, in 1993.
Zimbabwe ranks 22nd of 113 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 97,564 kg/ha | 76,612 kg/ha | 110,187 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 100,035 kg/ha | 82,530 kg/ha | 116,848 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 108,072 kg/ha | 100,423 kg/ha | 125,303 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 97,359 kg/ha | 59,778 kg/ha | 108,404 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 88,073 kg/ha | 64,640 kg/ha | 113,043 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 78,044 kg/ha | 66,203 kg/ha | 89,423 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 80,800 kg/ha | 79,000 kg/ha | 83,000 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Zimbabwe
- 20 Polynesia 86,757 kg/ha compare
- 21 Ecuador 83,539 kg/ha compare
- 23 Côte d'Ivoire 81,007 kg/ha compare
- 24 China, mainland 80,871 kg/ha compare
- 25 China 80,791 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Zimbabwe
- Agriculture share gdp 9.47 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.47 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.3% (2024)
- Rural population 59.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 10.09 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.85 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 325,400 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar cane — yield in Zimbabwe?
- Sugar cane — yield in Zimbabwe was 83,000 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar cane — yield recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The highest recorded value was 125,303 kg/ha in 1986.
- What is the lowest sugar cane — yield recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The lowest recorded value was 59,778 kg/ha in 1993.
- How does Zimbabwe rank for sugar cane — yield?
- Zimbabwe ranks 22nd out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar cane — yield rising or falling in Zimbabwe?
- Over the last ten years it is down 7.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Zimbabwe 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.