Sugar Crops Primary — Yield in Liberia
Liberia: Sugar Crops Primary — Yield was 10,174 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sugar Crops Primary — Yield in Liberia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Liberia recorded 10,174 kg/ha for sugar crops primary — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar crops primary — yield in Liberia peaked at 15,301 kg/ha in 1977 and was at its lowest, 8,233 kg/ha, in 1988.
That places Liberia 147th out of 152 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sugar Crops Primary — Yield in Liberia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 10,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 10,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 10,769 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1975 | 11,233 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1976 | 11,220 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1977 | 15,301 kg/ha | +36.4% |
| 1978 | 14,737 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1979 | 14,737 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 12,500 kg/ha | -15.2% |
| 1981 | 10,333 kg/ha | -17.3% |
| 1982 | 10,333 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 10,333 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 10,086 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1985 | 10,127 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1986 | 10,157 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1987 | 10,157 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1988 | 8,233 kg/ha | -18.9% |
| 1989 | 10,227 kg/ha | +24.2% |
| 1990 | 10,000 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1991 | 10,227 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1992 | 10,227 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 10,222 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1994 | 10,217 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1995 | 10,213 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1996 | 10,208 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1997 | 10,204 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1998 | 10,204 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 10,204 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 10,204 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 10,200 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2002 | 10,200 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 10,200 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 10,200 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 10,200 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 10,200 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 10,192 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2008 | 10,192 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 10,192 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 10,192 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 10,192 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 10,192 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 10,192 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 10,188 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2015 | 10,187 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2016 | 10,184 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2017 | 10,183 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2018 | 10,181 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2019 | 10,179 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2020 | 10,177 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2021 | 10,177 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 10,176 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2023 | 10,175 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2024 | 10,174 kg/ha | -0.0% |
Liberia compared with similar countries
- Liberia's 10,174 kg/ha is below the median for low income countries, which is 42,586 kg/ha, 24% of the median. (19 countries reporting)
- Liberia's 10,174 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 62,436 kg/ha, 16% of the median. (32 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sugar Crops Primary — Yield in Liberia changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | +36.4% | 11,220 kg/ha | 15,301 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,000 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,800 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 15,301 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,249 kg/ha | 8,233 kg/ha | 12,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 10,193 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10,227 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,198 kg/ha | 10,192 kg/ha | 10,204 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,187 kg/ha | 10,179 kg/ha | 10,192 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,176 kg/ha | 10,174 kg/ha | 10,177 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Liberia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.94 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3265 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 298.89 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.8615 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0005 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4392 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 32.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 32.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 63.7% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.7% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar crops primary — yield in Liberia?
- Sugar crops primary — yield in Liberia was 10,174 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar crops primary — yield recorded in Liberia?
- The highest recorded value was 15,301 kg/ha in 1977.
- What is the lowest sugar crops primary — yield recorded in Liberia?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,233 kg/ha in 1988.
- How does Liberia rank for sugar crops primary — yield?
- Liberia ranks 147th out of 152 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar crops primary — yield rising or falling in Liberia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Liberia 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.