Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested in Dominica
Dominica: Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested was 252 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested in Dominica, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sugar crops primary — area harvested in Dominica is 252 ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 5.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar crops primary — area harvested in Dominica peaked at 252 ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 200 ha, in 1961.
That places Dominica 126th out of 155 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom 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 | 200 ha | 200 ha | 200 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 202 ha | 200 ha | 220 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 240 ha | 230 ha | 250 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 215.5 ha | 210 ha | 225 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 226 ha | 220 ha | 240 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 243.7 ha | 240 ha | 250 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 251.4 ha | 251 ha | 252 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Dominica
- 123 Lebanon 318 ha compare
- 124 Oman 302 ha compare
- 125 Guinea-Bissau 262 ha compare
- 127 French Guiana 170 ha compare
- 128 Slovenia 150 ha compare
- 129 Uzbekistan 145 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Dominica
- Rural population, per capita 0.2601 units per person (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -2.16 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,330 current US$ per person (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.121 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 4.04 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 87.61 million current US$ (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.2% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2023)
- Rural population 26.0% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar crops primary — area harvested in Dominica?
- Sugar crops primary — area harvested in Dominica was 252 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar crops primary — area harvested recorded in Dominica?
- The highest recorded value was 252 ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest sugar crops primary — area harvested recorded in Dominica?
- The lowest recorded value was 200 ha in 1961.
- How does Dominica rank for sugar crops primary — area harvested?
- Dominica ranks 126th out of 155 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar crops primary — area harvested rising or falling in Dominica?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Dominica 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.