Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested in Central America
Central America: Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested was 1.36 million ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested in Central America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Central America recorded 1.36 million ha for sugar crops primary — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is down 2.2% on the previous year and down 1.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar crops primary — area harvested in Central America peaked at 1.44 million ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 500,207 ha, in 1961.
Central America ranks 9th of 35 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 620,621 ha | 500,207 ha | 729,160 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 773,728 ha | 709,616 ha | 863,474 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 865,830 ha | 796,627 ha | 921,777 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 977,472 ha | 875,049 ha | 1.11 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1.14 million ha | 1.03 million ha | 1.24 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.36 million ha | 1.24 million ha | 1.44 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.38 million ha | 1.36 million ha | 1.40 million ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Central America
More agriculture & rural data for Central America
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 67,514 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 2.05 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 82 kg/An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 5.12 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Production 9.27 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 25.03 million An (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 215,845 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 100,964 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 32,019 ha (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 25.41 million An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar crops primary — area harvested in Central America?
- Sugar crops primary — area harvested in Central America was 1.36 million ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar crops primary — area harvested recorded in Central America?
- The highest recorded value was 1.44 million ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest sugar crops primary — area harvested recorded in Central America?
- The lowest recorded value was 500,207 ha in 1961.
- How does Central America rank for sugar crops primary — area harvested?
- Central America ranks 9th out of 35 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sugar crops primary — area harvested rising or falling in Central America?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Central America data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested. 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.