Sugar Crops Primary — Yield in South America
South America: Sugar Crops Primary — Yield was 73,974 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sugar Crops Primary — Yield in South America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sugar crops primary — yield in South America stood at 73,974 kg/ha.
That represents a change of down 2.9% on the previous year and up 4.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar crops primary — yield in South America peaked at 80,065 kg/ha in 2009 and was at its lowest, 47,925 kg/ha, in 1963.
That places South America 9th out of 33 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 49,961 kg/ha | 47,925 kg/ha | 52,192 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 53,905 kg/ha | 51,466 kg/ha | 57,342 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 61,618 kg/ha | 57,179 kg/ha | 63,680 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 66,690 kg/ha | 63,224 kg/ha | 69,965 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 74,821 kg/ha | 68,652 kg/ha | 80,065 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 74,023 kg/ha | 70,985 kg/ha | 78,661 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 73,647 kg/ha | 71,262 kg/ha | 76,166 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near South America
More agriculture & rural data for South America
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.00 million ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 20.74 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 132,585 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 62,811 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 8.33 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 747,608 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 401,333 ha (2024)
- Milk, Total — Production 69.74 million t (2024)
- Meat, Poultry — Yield/Carcass Weight 2,181 g/An (2024)
- Meat, Poultry — Production 22.62 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar crops primary — yield in South America?
- Sugar crops primary — yield in South America was 73,974 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar crops primary — yield recorded in South America?
- The highest recorded value was 80,065 kg/ha in 2009.
- What is the lowest sugar crops primary — yield recorded in South America?
- The lowest recorded value was 47,925 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does South America rank for sugar crops primary — yield?
- South America ranks 9th out of 33 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sugar crops primary — yield rising or falling in South America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this South America 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.