Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested in Kenya
Kenya: Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested was 134,900 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested in Kenya, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sugar crops primary — area harvested in Kenya stood at 134,900 ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 67.2% on the previous year and up 86.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar crops primary — area harvested in Kenya peaked at 134,900 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 17,120 ha, in 1966.
Kenya ranks 31st of 167 countries 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 | 20,319 ha | 17,120 ha | 26,547 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 29,242 ha | 17,703 ha | 36,800 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 43,061 ha | 37,400 ha | 51,847 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 51,642 ha | 40,494 ha | 57,392 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 55,430 ha | 47,794 ha | 65,774 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 77,054 ha | 67,708 ha | 87,340 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 103,330 ha | 80,700 ha | 134,900 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Kenya
- 28 Viet Nam 174,816 ha compare
- 29 Czechoslovakia 169,531 ha compare
- 30 Yugoslav SFR 142,555 ha compare
- 32 Peru 118,456 ha compare
- 33 Dominican Republic 110,649 ha compare
- 34 Paraguay 110,000 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Kenya
- Agriculture share gdp 23.16 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 23.16 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 12.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 67.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.5% (2025)
- Rural population 39.00 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 23.2% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 31.48 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.06 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar crops primary — area harvested in Kenya?
- Sugar crops primary — area harvested in Kenya was 134,900 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar crops primary — area harvested recorded in Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 134,900 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest sugar crops primary — area harvested recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 17,120 ha in 1966.
- How does Kenya rank for sugar crops primary — area harvested?
- Kenya ranks 31st out of 167 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar crops primary — area harvested rising or falling in Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is up 86.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Kenya 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.