Sugar Crops Primary — Yield in Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Sugar Crops Primary — Yield was 70,998 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sugar Crops Primary — Yield in Costa Rica, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sugar crops primary — yield in Costa Rica is 70,998 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 22.2% on the previous year and down 0.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar crops primary — yield in Costa Rica peaked at 89,796 kg/ha in 2003 and was at its lowest, 50,459 kg/ha, in 1961.
Costa Rica ranks 42nd of 164 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 52,223 kg/ha | 50,459 kg/ha | 53,960 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 59,025 kg/ha | 56,000 kg/ha | 62,986 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 56,697 kg/ha | 56,000 kg/ha | 59,702 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 82,364 kg/ha | 76,486 kg/ha | 89,152 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 82,395 kg/ha | 76,994 kg/ha | 89,796 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 66,884 kg/ha | 59,468 kg/ha | 71,072 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 66,947 kg/ha | 58,095 kg/ha | 74,649 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Costa Rica
- Agriculture share gdp 3.37 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 3.37 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2024)
- Rural population 20.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.6% (2025)
- Rural population 1.04 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.46 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.63 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar crops primary — yield in Costa Rica?
- Sugar crops primary — yield in Costa Rica was 70,998 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar crops primary — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The highest recorded value was 89,796 kg/ha in 2003.
- What is the lowest sugar crops primary — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The lowest recorded value was 50,459 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Costa Rica rank for sugar crops primary — yield?
- Costa Rica ranks 42nd out of 164 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar crops primary — yield rising or falling in Costa Rica?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Costa Rica data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sugar Crops Primary — Yield. 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.