Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested in Madagascar
Madagascar: Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested was 100,974 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested in Madagascar, 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 Madagascar is 100,974 ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 0.3% on the previous year and up 8.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar crops primary — area harvested in Madagascar peaked at 102,106 ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 17,000 ha, in 1961.
That places Madagascar 38th out of 167 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 18,682 ha | 17,000 ha | 20,110 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 30,844 ha | 20,845 ha | 36,400 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 54,496 ha | 40,195 ha | 61,400 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 62,093 ha | 37,100 ha | 67,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 75,415 ha | 67,325 ha | 95,000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 94,057 ha | 87,559 ha | 100,460 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 101,200 ha | 100,607 ha | 102,106 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Madagascar
- 35 Belarus 106,000 ha compare
- 36 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 102,389 ha compare
- 37 Belgium-Luxembourg 101,191 ha compare
- 39 Nigeria 88,518 ha compare
- 40 Uganda 87,249 ha compare
- 41 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 84,480 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Madagascar
- Agriculture share gdp 21.7 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 21.7 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.3% (2024)
- Rural population 67.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.7% (2025)
- Rural population 21.97 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 21.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.26 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 399,940 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar crops primary — area harvested in Madagascar?
- Sugar crops primary — area harvested in Madagascar was 100,974 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar crops primary — area harvested recorded in Madagascar?
- The highest recorded value was 102,106 ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest sugar crops primary — area harvested recorded in Madagascar?
- The lowest recorded value was 17,000 ha in 1961.
- How does Madagascar rank for sugar crops primary — area harvested?
- Madagascar ranks 38th out of 167 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar crops primary — area harvested rising or falling in Madagascar?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Madagascar 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.