Sugar Crops Primary — Yield in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea: Sugar Crops Primary — Yield was 25,055 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sugar Crops Primary — Yield in Papua New Guinea, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Papua New Guinea recorded 25,055 kg/ha for sugar crops primary — yield in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.9% on the previous year and down 25.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar crops primary — yield in Papua New Guinea peaked at 70,804 kg/ha in 1983 and was at its lowest, 25,055 kg/ha, in 2024.
That places Papua New Guinea 128th 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 Papua New Guinea, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 40,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 40,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 39,500 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1964 | 39,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 40,000 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1966 | 40,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 39,512 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1968 | 40,000 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1969 | 39,524 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1970 | 39,535 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 39,546 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 39,556 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 40,000 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1974 | 39,565 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1975 | 39,574 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 39,583 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 40,000 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1978 | 40,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 40,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 40,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 40,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 62,439 kg/ha | +56.1% |
| 1983 | 70,804 kg/ha | +13.4% |
| 1984 | 70,435 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1985 | 64,634 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 1986 | 59,684 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 1987 | 65,714 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 1988 | 58,200 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 1989 | 60,227 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1990 | 59,524 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1991 | 62,000 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1992 | 58,333 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 1993 | 56,667 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1994 | 50,000 kg/ha | -11.8% |
| 1995 | 50,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 52,500 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1997 | 56,429 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1998 | 50,000 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 1999 | 53,750 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 2000 | 54,714 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2001 | 64,286 kg/ha | +17.5% |
| 2002 | 53,125 kg/ha | -17.4% |
| 2003 | 52,353 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2004 | 52,000 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2005 | 52,571 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2006 | 37,647 kg/ha | -28.4% |
| 2007 | 37,647 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 38,824 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2009 | 38,824 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 38,614 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2011 | 36,850 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 2012 | 35,008 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2013 | 35,169 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2014 | 33,602 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2015 | 32,395 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2016 | 30,968 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 2017 | 30,252 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2018 | 29,472 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 2019 | 28,571 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2020 | 27,611 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2021 | 27,420 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2022 | 26,564 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2023 | 25,810 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2024 | 25,055 kg/ha | -2.9% |
Papua New Guinea compared with similar countries
- Papua New Guinea's 25,055 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 53,832 kg/ha, 47% of the median. (31 countries reporting)
- Papua New Guinea's 25,055 kg/ha is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 50,138 kg/ha, 50% of the median. (14 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sugar Crops Primary — Yield in Papua New Guinea 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | +56.1% | 40,000 kg/ha | 62,439 kg/ha |
| 2006 | -28.4% | 52,571 kg/ha | 37,647 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 39,782 kg/ha | 39,500 kg/ha | 40,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 39,736 kg/ha | 39,535 kg/ha | 40,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 59,214 kg/ha | 40,000 kg/ha | 70,804 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 54,920 kg/ha | 50,000 kg/ha | 62,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 48,199 kg/ha | 37,647 kg/ha | 64,286 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 33,090 kg/ha | 28,571 kg/ha | 38,614 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 26,492 kg/ha | 25,055 kg/ha | 27,611 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Papua New Guinea
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 0.3264 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1702 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 495.76 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.31 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.8422 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 17.0% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 17.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.6% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar crops primary — yield in Papua New Guinea?
- Sugar crops primary — yield in Papua New Guinea was 25,055 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar crops primary — yield recorded in Papua New Guinea?
- The highest recorded value was 70,804 kg/ha in 1983.
- What is the lowest sugar crops primary — yield recorded in Papua New Guinea?
- The lowest recorded value was 25,055 kg/ha in 2024.
- How does Papua New Guinea rank for sugar crops primary — yield?
- Papua New Guinea ranks 128th out of 152 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar crops primary — yield rising or falling in Papua New Guinea?
- Over the last ten years it is down 25.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Papua New Guinea 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.