Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested in Cuba
Cuba: Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested was 270,361 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested in Cuba, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Cuba recorded 270,361 ha for sugar crops primary — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 86.1% on the previous year and down 33.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar crops primary — area harvested in Cuba peaked at 1.50 million ha in 1970 and was at its lowest, 145,293 ha, in 2023.
That places Cuba 22nd out of 167 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 1.07 million ha | 968,000 ha | 1.26 million ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1.25 million ha | 1.14 million ha | 1.50 million ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1.32 million ha | 1.20 million ha | 1.39 million ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.25 million ha | 995,800 ha | 1.45 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 645,280 ha | 329,500 ha | 1.04 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 416,497 ha | 314,400 ha | 506,100 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 274,051 ha | 145,293 ha | 393,000 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Cuba
- Agriculture share gdp 1.24 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.24 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.5% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2022)
- Rural population 22.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 2.49 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.2% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.96 billion current US$ (2020)
- Bananas — Production 155,957 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar crops primary — area harvested in Cuba?
- Sugar crops primary — area harvested in Cuba was 270,361 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar crops primary — area harvested recorded in Cuba?
- The highest recorded value was 1.50 million ha in 1970.
- What is the lowest sugar crops primary — area harvested recorded in Cuba?
- The lowest recorded value was 145,293 ha in 2023.
- How does Cuba rank for sugar crops primary — area harvested?
- Cuba ranks 22nd out of 167 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar crops primary — area harvested rising or falling in Cuba?
- Over the last ten years it is down 33.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Cuba 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.