plate 228 · 2024 data

Cuba now imports more raw sugar than it exports

Cuba's raw sugar exports and imports, tonnes, 2015 vs 2024. FAO; 2024 values from external sources, mostly partner records.

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  1. 1. Brazil has all but caught the US in farm exports
  2. 2. Brazil exports more chicken than the US and EU combined
  3. 3. India now ships over a third of world rice exports
  4. 4. Russia now exports twice as much wheat as the US
  5. 5. Egypt exports more fresh oranges than any other country
  6. 6. China buys three in ten of the world's beef imports
  7. 7. Farmed seafood now outweighs the wild catch
  8. 8. Spanish olive oil mill prices are back at 2021 levels
  9. 9. Ukraine sells a fifth less grain than before the war
  10. 10. Brazil overtook the US as the world's top cotton exporter
  11. 11. Laos now mines more potash than Israel or Jordan
  12. 12. India now grows more rice than China
  13. 13. Côte d'Ivoire grows more cashews than India
  14. 14. Indonesia set to use more palm oil than it exports
  15. 15. Mato Grosso grows more soy than China and India combined
  16. 16. Africa now has more hungry people than Asia
  17. 17. Vietnam now drinks more coffee than Russia
  18. 18. Nigeria now eats more rice than Japan
  19. 19. Ecuador is now the world's second-biggest cocoa bean exporter
  20. 20. Mexico, home of maize, imports more of it than anyone
  21. 21. Cuba now imports more raw sugar than it exports
6.8 Mt

Raw sugar Cuba exported in 1990. In 2015 it still shipped 1.24 Mt.

45 t

Cuba's raw sugar exports in 2024 in FAO's records, against 28,299 t of imports.

2024

The year the old sugar island became a net buyer of raw sugar, in FAO's records: the crop that built its economy no longer covers its own needs.

Source: FAO, FAOSTAT: Crops and livestock products, trade (TCL), 2024
the numbers & method
Cuba now imports more raw sugar than it exports. Source: FAO, FAOSTAT: Crops and livestock products, trade (TCL), 2024.
2015 (t)2024 (t)
Exports1,241,21345
Imports5428,299

Claim types Fact · Estimate · Interpretation

FAOSTAT domain TCL (Crops and livestock products), area Cuba (49), item 162 'Raw cane or beet sugar (centrifugal only)', elements 5910 export quantity and 5610 import quantity, tonnes, read from the FAOSTAT API (faostatservices.fao.org). Exports, t: 1985 6,243,100 (A, official); 1990 6,792,000 (X, from external organization); 1995 2,600,102 (A); 2000 3,417,820 (X); 2005 697,811 (A); 2010 559,295 (A); 2015 1,241,213 (A); 2016 1,038,728.65; 2017 1,136,198.8; 2018 574,969; 2019 738,111; 2020 1,162,615.2; 2021 306,227.6 (all A); 2022 150,610.14; 2023 232,000; 2024 44.64 (all X: value from external organization; 2022 and 2024 match partner-country records, 2023 does not). Imports, t: 2015 54.05 (X); 2016 0.02; 2017 0.03; 2018 0.69; 2019 0.01; 2021 1.4 (A); 2023 477.67; 2024 28,298.97 (X). 2020 import value not published. Raw sugar only: refined sugar (FAOSTAT item 164) is not charted; it points the same way: Cuba imported 37,760 t of refined sugar in 2024 (X) and exported about none. Mirror data cannot see partners that do not report (e.g. Russia, 2021–2024). Cuba's 1990 exports went mostly to the Soviet bloc at preferential prices. 'Once the top exporter': Cuba was the world's largest raw sugar exporter in 1990 in the same FAOSTAT item (vault read of FAOSTAT TCL: Cuba 6.79 Mt, Australia 2.85 Mt, Thailand 1.73 Mt). Takeaway 3's second clause is Interpretation.

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