Australia vs India: Pulses, Total — Production

Australia
5.41 million t
in 2024
India
25.40 million t
in 2024
Australia rank
4th
India rank
1st

Pulses, Total — Production over time

  • Australia
  • India
010.0M20.0M30.0M196119922024

How they compare

India currently reports 25.40 million t against 5.41 million t in Australia, a difference of 19.99 million t.

That makes India's figure about 4.7 times Australia's.

Across all 64 years both countries report, India has been ahead every year.

Australia ranks 4th and India ranks 1st of 182 countries.

India has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Australia India Difference Ahead
1960s 21,798 t 11.05 million t 11.03 million t India
1970s 83,875 t 11.29 million t 11.20 million t India
1980s 883,636 t 11.90 million t 11.02 million t India
1990s 2.21 million t 16.81 million t 14.60 million t India
2000s 1.90 million t 13.98 million t 12.08 million t India
2010s 2.59 million t 20.36 million t 17.77 million t India
2020s 4.45 million t 26.04 million t 21.59 million t India

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher pulses, total — production, Australia or India?
India, at 25.40 million t against 5.41 million t in Australia as of 2024.
What is the difference in pulses, total — production between Australia and India?
19.99 million t, with India ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and India?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Australia and India rank globally for pulses, total — production?
Australia ranks 4th and India ranks 1st of 182 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Pulses, Total — Production. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Pulses, Total — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
215 places, 12,284 data points, 1961–2024
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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.