Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested in China, mainland
China, mainland: Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested was 1.48 million ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested in China, mainland, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sugar crops primary — area harvested in China, mainland stood at 1.48 million ha.
The figure is up 4.7% on the previous year and down 22.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar crops primary — area harvested in China, mainland peaked at 2.03 million ha in 2012 and was at its lowest, 237,300 ha, in 1962.
That places China, mainland 6th out of 155 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested in China, mainland, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 395,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 237,300 ha | -39.9% |
| 1963 | 262,000 ha | +10.4% |
| 1964 | 430,500 ha | +64.3% |
| 1965 | 521,300 ha | +21.1% |
| 1966 | 539,340 ha | +3.5% |
| 1967 | 526,700 ha | -2.3% |
| 1968 | 490,700 ha | -6.8% |
| 1969 | 513,300 ha | +4.6% |
| 1970 | 586,000 ha | +14.2% |
| 1971 | 645,300 ha | +10.1% |
| 1972 | 742,700 ha | +15.1% |
| 1973 | 790,000 ha | +6.4% |
| 1974 | 759,400 ha | -3.9% |
| 1975 | 826,000 ha | +8.8% |
| 1976 | 897,600 ha | +8.7% |
| 1977 | 858,600 ha | -4.3% |
| 1978 | 879,400 ha | +2.4% |
| 1979 | 836,800 ha | -4.8% |
| 1980 | 921,300 ha | +10.1% |
| 1981 | 986,400 ha | +7.1% |
| 1982 | 1.11 million ha | +13.0% |
| 1983 | 1.20 million ha | +7.4% |
| 1984 | 1.23 million ha | +2.7% |
| 1985 | 1.52 million ha | +24.0% |
| 1986 | 1.47 million ha | -3.7% |
| 1987 | 1.36 million ha | -7.7% |
| 1988 | 1.67 million ha | +23.2% |
| 1989 | 1.53 million ha | -8.4% |
| 1990 | 1.68 million ha | +9.8% |
| 1991 | 1.95 million ha | +16.0% |
| 1992 | 1.91 million ha | -2.1% |
| 1993 | 1.69 million ha | -11.5% |
| 1994 | 1.75 million ha | +4.1% |
| 1995 | 1.82 million ha | +3.7% |
| 1996 | 1.85 million ha | +1.4% |
| 1997 | 1.92 million ha | +4.2% |
| 1998 | 1.98 million ha | +3.2% |
| 1999 | 1.64 million ha | -17.2% |
| 2000 | 1.51 million ha | -7.9% |
| 2001 | 1.65 million ha | +9.2% |
| 2002 | 1.82 million ha | +9.9% |
| 2003 | 1.66 million ha | -8.8% |
| 2004 | 1.57 million ha | -5.4% |
| 2005 | 1.56 million ha | -0.2% |
| 2006 | 1.57 million ha | +0.2% |
| 2007 | 1.80 million ha | +15.0% |
| 2008 | 1.99 million ha | +10.4% |
| 2009 | 1.88 million ha | -5.3% |
| 2010 | 1.91 million ha | +1.1% |
| 2011 | 1.95 million ha | +2.2% |
| 2012 | 2.03 million ha | +4.2% |
| 2013 | 2.00 million ha | -1.6% |
| 2014 | 1.90 million ha | -5.0% |
| 2015 | 1.57 million ha | -17.2% |
| 2016 | 1.56 million ha | -1.0% |
| 2017 | 1.55 million ha | -0.7% |
| 2018 | 1.62 million ha | +4.9% |
| 2019 | 1.61 million ha | -0.8% |
| 2020 | 1.57 million ha | -2.7% |
| 2021 | 1.46 million ha | -7.0% |
| 2022 | 1.45 million ha | -0.4% |
| 2023 | 1.41 million ha | -2.6% |
| 2024 | 1.48 million ha | +4.7% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested in China, mainland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | +64.3% | 262,000 ha | 430,500 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 435,127 ha | 237,300 ha | 539,340 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 782,180 ha | 586,000 ha | 897,600 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1.30 million ha | 921,300 ha | 1.67 million ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.82 million ha | 1.64 million ha | 1.98 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1.70 million ha | 1.51 million ha | 1.99 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.77 million ha | 1.55 million ha | 2.03 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.47 million ha | 1.41 million ha | 1.57 million ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near China, mainland
- 3 USSR 3.17 million ha compare
- 4 Thailand 1.49 million ha compare
- 4 Türkiye 324,286 ha compare
- 5 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 209,210 ha compare
- 5 China 1.49 million ha compare
- 6 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 184,287 ha compare
- 7 Pakistan 1.19 million ha compare
- 7 Viet Nam 174,816 ha compare
- 8 Russian Federation 985,329 ha compare
- 9 Democratic Republic of the Congo 71,637 ha compare
- 9 Mexico 784,416 ha compare
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- Edible offal of cattle, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 1.5 % change on previous year (2024)
- Edible offal of cattle, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production, annual 3.51 % change on previous year (2024)
- Chickens — Stocks, annual growth rate 0.4723 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cattle fat, unrendered — Producing Animals/Slaughtered, annual growth 1.5 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cattle fat, unrendered — Production, annual growth rate 3.51 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cattle — Stocks, annual growth rate -4.4 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 0.2596 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.35 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.03 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar crops primary — area harvested in China, mainland?
- Sugar crops primary — area harvested in China, mainland was 1.48 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 China, mainland?
- The highest recorded value was 2.03 million ha in 2012.
- What is the lowest sugar crops primary — area harvested recorded in China, mainland?
- The lowest recorded value was 237,300 ha in 1962.
- How does China, mainland rank for sugar crops primary — area harvested?
- China, mainland ranks 6th out of 155 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar crops primary — area harvested rising or falling in China, mainland?
- Over the last ten years it is down 22.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this China, mainland 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.