Countries by sugar cane production

Brazil had the highest sugar cane production of 101 countries in 2006, at 477,410,656 tonnes. Saint Kitts and Nevis had the lowest, at 0 tonnes. The median was 1,173,470 tonnes and the figure for the World was 1,417,229,679 tonnes. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest477,410,656Brazil

Lowest0Saint Kitts and Nevis

Median1,173,470101 countries

World1,417,229,679History

Map of countries, 2006

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tonnes, 2006. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Sugar cane, production, t (item 156, element 5510). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Top 40 countries, 2006

tonnes. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Sugar cane, production, t (item 156, element 5510). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2006 tonnes	Change on 2005
1	Brazil	477,410,656	+12.9%
2	India	281,171,808	+18.6%
3	China	97,092,200	+12.1%
4	Mexico	50,675,820	-1.9%
5	Thailand	47,658,097	-3.9%
6	Pakistan	44,665,500	-5.5%
7	Australia	37,128,107	-1.8%
8	Colombia Estimated	37,100,000	-6.9%
9	United States	29,564,000	+11.1%
10	Indonesia	29,200,000	-0.3%
11	Argentina Estimated	26,450,000	+8.4%
12	Philippines	24,345,106	+6.2%
13	South Africa	20,278,603	-3.7%
14	Guatemala	17,631,588	-2.1%
15	Vietnam	16,719,500	+11.8%
16	Egypt	16,656,330	+2.1%
17	Cuba	11,060,000	-4.7%
18	Venezuela	9,322,937	-3.4%
19	Myanmar	8,038,900	+13.7%
20	Peru	7,251,260	+6.6%
21	Ecuador	6,995,613	+2.4%
22	Bolivia	6,201,125	+21.3%
23	Honduras	5,570,000	-1%
24	Bangladesh	5,510,930	-14.2%
25	Eswatini	5,000,000	-3.8%
26	Iran	4,959,391	-10.3%
27	Kenya	4,932,839	+2.7%
28	El Salvador	4,878,039	+10.7%
29	Dominican Republic	4,796,548	-1.3%
30	Mauritius	4,748,973	-4.7%
31	Costa Rica Estimated	4,600,000	+15%
32	Nicaragua	4,505,036	+18%
33	Zimbabwe	3,681,784	+4.3%
34	Paraguay	3,200,000	+6%
35	Fiji	3,192,000	+13%
36	Guyana	2,975,000	-1%
37	Ethiopia Estimated	2,750,000	+3.8%
38	Madagascar	2,690,885	+10%
39	Tanzania Estimated	2,480,000	+7.8%
40	Nepal	2,462,574	+3.6%
41	Malawi Estimated	2,450,000	+2.1%
41	Uganda Estimated	2,450,000	+4.3%
41	Zambia Estimated	2,450,000	+6.5%
44	Mozambique	2,060,317	-8.3%
45	Réunion	1,882,261	+3.6%
46	Panama	1,771,500	+0.3%
47	Jamaica	1,745,300	+27.5%
48	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1,494,516	-1.8%
49	Côte d’Ivoire	1,448,010	-0.6%
50	Japan	1,310,000	+7.9%
51	Belize	1,173,470	+26.3%
52	Cameroon	1,137,508	-21.6%
53	Sri Lanka	1,136,600	+14.6%
54	Haiti	1,075,000	+2.4%
55	Morocco	997,000	+27.4%
56	Nigeria	987,000	+8%
57	Trinidad and Tobago Estimated	860,000	+104.8%
58	Senegal Estimated	829,500	+0.1%
59	Guadeloupe	787,286	-12.7%
60	Taiwan	714,257	-24%
61	Republic of the Congo Estimated	550,000	-10.9%
62	Angola Estimated	450,000	+30.4%
62	Burkina Faso Estimated	450,000	0%
62	Malaysia Estimated	450,000	-10%
65	Barbados	348,300	-21.3%
66	Papua New Guinea Estimated	320,000	-13%
67	Mali	319,529	-7.2%
68	Chad Estimated	300,866	-0.5%
69	Guinea Estimated	281,000	+0.4%
70	Liberia Estimated	255,000	0%
71	Niger Estimated	240,000	+9.1%
72	Laos	218,430	+11.4%
73	Gabon Estimated	215,000	+2.4%
74	Somalia Estimated	200,000	+33.3%
75	Martinique	165,101	-22.5%
76	Uruguay	144,519	-16.1%
77	Cambodia	141,704	+19.9%
78	Ghana Estimated	140,000	0%
79	Suriname Estimated	120,000	+71.4%
80	Burundi	116,825	-7%
81	Central African Republic Estimated	93,000	+3.3%
82	Afghanistan	70,000	+84.2%
82	Sierra Leone Estimated	70,000	0%
84	Benin	66,116	+2.8%
85	Rwanda	58,011	-1.1%
86	Bahamas Estimated	57,500	+15%
87	Cape Verde	28,190	+2.5%
88	Spain	16,425	-62.2%
89	Grenada Estimated	7,200	+5.9%
90	French Guiana	6,967	+30.2%
91	Guinea-Bissau	5,500	0%
92	Portugal Estimated	5,000	+25%
93	Dominica Estimated	4,400	0%
94	French Polynesia Estimated	3,000	0%
95	Bhutan Estimated	839	+0.1%
96	Oman	519	-17.1%
97	Djibouti Estimated	52	0%
98	Samoa Estimated	12	0%
99	Iraq	0	n/a
99	Lebanon Estimated	0	n/a
99	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	-100%

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About this ranking

Quantity of sugar cane stalks as harvested produced in the calendar year, in tonnes, as published in FAOSTAT's crops and livestock products domain. Countries report to FAO through its annual production questionnaire; FAO fills gaps with official publications and its own estimates.

Weight of cane, not of the sugar extracted from it. FAO fills gaps in national reporting with its own estimates and imputations, which are marked as estimated, and revises past years when countries send new figures.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. 11 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2006 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Sugar cane, production, t (item 156, element 5510). Accessed on 2026-10-12. https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip Licence: CC-BY-4.0. FAO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.

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Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Sugar cane, production, t (item 156, element 5510), Countries by sugar cane production, 2006. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 31 Dec. 2025, https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/sugar-cane-production/countries?period=2006. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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  author = {{Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations}},
  title = {{Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Sugar cane, production, t (item 156, element 5510): Countries by sugar cane production, 2006}},
  year = {2025},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/sugar-cane-production/countries?period=2006. Publisher attribution: FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Sugar cane, production, t (item 156, element 5510). Accessed on 2026-10-12. https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production\_Crops\_Livestock\_E\_All\_Data\_\%28Normalized\%29.zip Licence: CC-BY-4.0. FAO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.},
}

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Which country has the highest sugar cane production?

Brazil, with 477,410,656 tonnes in 2006, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Which country has the lowest sugar cane production?

Saint Kitts and Nevis, with 0 tonnes in 2006.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Sugar cane, production, t (item 156, element 5510). Retrieved 2026-10-12. 11 countries have no value for 2006 and are not ranked.