Sugar Crops Primary — Yield in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Sugar Crops Primary — Yield was 36,990 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sugar Crops Primary — Yield in Sri Lanka, 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 Sri Lanka is 36,990 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 27.0% on the previous year and down 19.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar crops primary — yield in Sri Lanka peaked at 66,972 kg/ha in 2009 and was at its lowest, 15,395 kg/ha, in 1962.
Sri Lanka ranks 121st 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 | 25,439 kg/ha | 15,395 kg/ha | 39,189 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 47,421 kg/ha | 42,105 kg/ha | 50,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 36,467 kg/ha | 22,659 kg/ha | 42,892 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 48,585 kg/ha | 29,188 kg/ha | 64,831 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 59,274 kg/ha | 55,000 kg/ha | 66,972 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 47,177 kg/ha | 34,610 kg/ha | 61,606 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 52,287 kg/ha | 36,990 kg/ha | 59,265 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Sri Lanka
- Agriculture share gdp 8.36 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 8.36 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2024)
- Rural population 79.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 17.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.10 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 8,514 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar crops primary — yield in Sri Lanka?
- Sugar crops primary — yield in Sri Lanka was 36,990 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar crops primary — yield recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 66,972 kg/ha in 2009.
- What is the lowest sugar crops primary — yield recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 15,395 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for sugar crops primary — yield?
- Sri Lanka ranks 121st out of 164 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar crops primary — yield rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is down 19.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sri Lanka 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.