Sugar Crops Primary — Production in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago: Sugar Crops Primary — Production was 810,000 t in 2007. ▼ Falling
Sugar Crops Primary — Production in Trinidad and Tobago, 1961–2007
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
In 2007, sugar crops primary — production in Trinidad and Tobago stood at 810,000 t.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 5.8% on the previous year and down 42.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar crops primary — production in Trinidad and Tobago peaked at 2.61 million t in 1970 and was at its lowest, 420,000 t, in 2005.
Trinidad and Tobago ranks 83rd of 155 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 47 years of available data.
Sugar Crops Primary — Production in Trinidad and Tobago, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2.52 million t | — |
| 1962 | 2.14 million t | -15.2% |
| 1963 | 2.42 million t | +13.2% |
| 1964 | 2.29 million t | -5.1% |
| 1965 | 2.54 million t | +10.9% |
| 1966 | 2.32 million t | -8.8% |
| 1967 | 2.19 million t | -5.9% |
| 1968 | 2.47 million t | +13.0% |
| 1969 | 2.48 million t | +0.6% |
| 1970 | 2.61 million t | +5.1% |
| 1971 | 2.35 million t | -10.0% |
| 1972 | 2.58 million t | +9.7% |
| 1973 | 2.01 million t | -22.1% |
| 1974 | 1.97 million t | -1.6% |
| 1975 | 1.74 million t | -12.0% |
| 1976 | 2.32 million t | +33.6% |
| 1977 | 1.89 million t | -18.5% |
| 1978 | 1.55 million t | -18.0% |
| 1979 | 1.68 million t | +8.6% |
| 1980 | 1.71 million t | +1.6% |
| 1981 | 1.29 million t | -24.6% |
| 1982 | 1.22 million t | -5.4% |
| 1983 | 1.01 million t | -17.5% |
| 1984 | 879,200 t | -12.6% |
| 1985 | 1.03 million t | +17.1% |
| 1986 | 1.17 million t | +13.2% |
| 1987 | 1.10 million t | -5.2% |
| 1988 | 1.24 million t | +12.7% |
| 1989 | 1.22 million t | -1.6% |
| 1990 | 1.48 million t | +20.7% |
| 1991 | 1.30 million t | -12.0% |
| 1992 | 1.29 million t | -0.7% |
| 1993 | 1.21 million t | -6.3% |
| 1994 | 1.40 million t | +15.4% |
| 1995 | 1.33 million t | -5.1% |
| 1996 | 1.40 million t | +5.9% |
| 1997 | 1.42 million t | +1.0% |
| 1998 | 1.06 million t | -25.5% |
| 1999 | 1.25 million t | +18.7% |
| 2000 | 1.37 million t | +9.4% |
| 2001 | 1.03 million t | -25.0% |
| 2002 | 1.34 million t | +30.1% |
| 2003 | 873,855 t | -34.7% |
| 2004 | 535,000 t | -38.8% |
| 2005 | 420,000 t | -21.5% |
| 2006 | 860,000 t | +104.8% |
| 2007 | 810,000 t | -5.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2.37 million t | 2.14 million t | 2.54 million t | 9 |
| 1970s | 2.07 million t | 1.55 million t | 2.61 million t | 10 |
| 1980s | 1.19 million t | 879,200 t | 1.71 million t | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.31 million t | 1.06 million t | 1.48 million t | 10 |
| 2000s | 905,059 t | 420,000 t | 1.37 million t | 8 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar crops primary — production in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Sugar crops primary — production in Trinidad and Tobago was 810,000 t in 2007, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar crops primary — production recorded in Trinidad and Tobago?
- The highest recorded value was 2.61 million t in 1970.
- What is the lowest sugar crops primary — production recorded in Trinidad and Tobago?
- The lowest recorded value was 420,000 t in 2005.
- How does Trinidad and Tobago rank for sugar crops primary — production?
- Trinidad and Tobago ranks 83rd out of 155 countries with data for 2007.
- Is sugar crops primary — production rising or falling in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Over the last ten years it is down 42.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Trinidad and Tobago data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sugar Crops Primary — Production. 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.