Export volume of sugar from South Africa 2000-2022

As of 2022, the export volume of sugar from South Africa fell to 389,000 metric tons. In the previous year, the country exported 542,200 metric tons. From 2006, the amount of sugar exports followed an overall declining trend, with several fluctuations. In that year, the export volume peaked, at roughly three million metric tons of sugar, a huge jump of 85.4 percent from 2005. The lowest export quantities were measured in 2016 and 2017, at 46,800 and 4,900 thousand metric tons, respectively.