Sugar Crops Primary — Yield in Jamaica
Jamaica: Sugar Crops Primary — Yield was 61,271 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sugar Crops Primary — Yield in Jamaica, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Jamaica recorded 61,271 kg/ha for sugar crops primary — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 18.2% on the previous year and up 2.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar crops primary — yield in Jamaica peaked at 82,741 kg/ha in 1978 and was at its lowest, 45,741 kg/ha, in 2020.
Jamaica ranks 70th of 164 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 71,394 kg/ha | 54,255 kg/ha | 80,565 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 65,952 kg/ha | 56,036 kg/ha | 82,741 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 58,813 kg/ha | 49,340 kg/ha | 71,473 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 62,197 kg/ha | 58,309 kg/ha | 66,525 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 57,124 kg/ha | 49,591 kg/ha | 64,502 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 53,817 kg/ha | 47,219 kg/ha | 59,909 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 53,239 kg/ha | 45,741 kg/ha | 61,271 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Jamaica
- Agriculture share gdp 8.74 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 8.74 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2023)
- Rural population 40.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.3% (2025)
- Rural population 1.15 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.99 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 62,998 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar crops primary — yield in Jamaica?
- Sugar crops primary — yield in Jamaica was 61,271 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar crops primary — yield recorded in Jamaica?
- The highest recorded value was 82,741 kg/ha in 1978.
- What is the lowest sugar crops primary — yield recorded in Jamaica?
- The lowest recorded value was 45,741 kg/ha in 2020.
- How does Jamaica rank for sugar crops primary — yield?
- Jamaica ranks 70th out of 164 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar crops primary — yield rising or falling in Jamaica?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Jamaica 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.