Apples — Production by country

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...

Countries reporting
101
Highest
51.29 million t
China
Lowest
0 t
Malta
Median
175,560 t
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
7,019

What the numbers show

Apples — Production is currently reported for 101 countries. The highest value is 51.29 million t in China; the lowest is 0 t in Malta.

The median across all reporting countries is 175,560 t, and the mean is 1.48 million t.

Over the past decade 55 countries rose and 46 fell. The largest increase was in Colombia (up 513.3%), and the largest decrease in Malta (down 100.0%).

Apples — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China 51.29 million t 2024 up 25.3% volatile
2 China, mainland 51.29 million t 2024 up 25.3% volatile
3 USSR 4.71 million t 1991 down 25.7% rising
4 Türkiye 4.42 million t 2024 up 78.2% volatile
5 Poland 3.38 million t 2024 up 5.9% volatile
6 India 2.63 million t 2024 up 5.1% volatile
7 Italy 2.40 million t 2024 down 3.0% rising
8 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 2.35 million t 2024 down 2.7% volatile
9 Russian Federation 2.01 million t 2024 up 24.0% rising
10 France 1.96 million t 2024 up 6.3% falling
11 Uzbekistan 1.48 million t 2024 up 53.6% volatile
12 Chile 1.30 million t 2024 down 24.6% volatile
13 Ukraine 1.15 million t 2024 up 6.0% rising
14 Brazil 997,470 t 2024 down 27.6% volatile
15 Egypt 959,101 t 2024 up 53.8% volatile
16 Germany 871,990 t 2024 down 21.9% falling
17 Australia and New Zealand 868,945 t 2024 up 14.8% rising
18 Pakistan 854,372 t 2024 up 38.5% volatile
19 Morocco 852,161 t 2024 up 58.9% volatile
20 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 801,602 t 2024 up 3.1% rising
21 Mexico 779,724 t 2024 up 8.8% rising
22 Japan 658,377 t 2024 down 19.3% falling
23 Algeria 591,698 t 2024 up 27.8% volatile
24 New Zealand 575,214 t 2024 up 17.4% rising
25 Belgium-Luxembourg 562,382 t 1999 up 74.4% rising
26 Spain 545,080 t 2024 down 12.2% falling
27 Argentina 494,063 t 2024 down 30.5% rising
28 Romania 487,140 t 2024 down 5.1% rising
29 Republic of Korea 460,088 t 2024 down 3.1% rising
30 Yugoslav SFR 428,351 t 1991 down 15.7% rising
31 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 408,047 t 2024 down 9.6% falling
32 Republic of Moldova 404,595 t 2024 up 9.3% rising
33 Serbia 389,196 t 2024 up 15.7% rising
34 Canada 386,368 t 2024 down 5.7% falling
35 Hungary 376,680 t 2024 down 51.7% falling
36 Belarus 336,700 t 2024 down 34.3% rising
37 Afghanistan 333,838 t 2024 up 273.4% volatile
38 Portugal 313,210 t 2024 up 14.4% rising
39 Azerbaijan 300,023 t 2024 up 18.9% rising
40 Czechoslovakia 294,798 t 1992 down 41.5% volatile
41 Australia 293,731 t 2024 up 10.1% falling
42 Tajikistan 277,717 t 2024 up 17.7% rising
43 Greece 263,210 t 2024 up 4.3% rising
44 Kazakhstan 225,684 t 2024 up 43.0% volatile
45 Switzerland 213,926 t 2024 down 7.5% falling
46 Serbia and Montenegro 202,104 t 2005 up 23.2% falling
47 Lebanon 194,000 t 2024 up 7.4% rising
47 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 194,000 t 2024 down 45.0% falling
49 Bosnia and Herzegovina 191,900 t 2024 up 328.4% volatile
50 Syrian Arab Republic 184,814 t 2024 down 53.5% volatile
51 Austria 175,560 t 2024 down 43.4% falling
52 Belgium 160,380 t 2024 down 49.6% falling
53 Tunisia 140,388 t 2024 up 15.5% volatile
54 Kyrgyzstan 139,656 t 2024 down 3.7% rising
55 North Macedonia 127,696 t 2024 up 33.5% rising
56 Peru 115,945 t 2024 down 27.5% rising
57 Albania 100,455 t 2024 up 22.4% volatile
58 Armenia 95,485 t 2024 down 28.0% rising
59 Israel 80,006 t 2024 up 2.8% rising
60 Georgia 76,400 t 2024 down 7.2% volatile
61 Iraq 76,005 t 2024 up 19.9% rising
62 Croatia 67,930 t 2024 down 29.8% rising
63 Turkmenistan 65,525 t 2024 up 3.8% rising
64 Lithuania 61,390 t 2024 up 2.0% volatile
65 Nepal 54,506 t 2024 up 51.7% rising
66 Slovenia 50,650 t 2024 down 49.3% falling
67 El Salvador 44,629 t 2024 up 13.0% rising
68 Uruguay 43,844 t 2024 down 16.9% rising
69 Czechia 37,490 t 2024 down 70.8% falling
70 Bulgaria 36,830 t 2024 down 32.4% volatile
71 Slovakia 33,650 t 2024 down 30.6% falling
72 Yemen 31,847 t 2024 up 58.5% volatile
73 Sweden 30,900 t 2024 up 25.7% volatile
74 Guatemala 25,473 t 2024 up 2.7% volatile
75 Ireland 21,990 t 2024 up 12.2% flat
76 Norway 20,100 t 2024 up 50.9% volatile
77 Denmark 18,510 t 2024 down 47.7% volatile
78 Jordan 16,314 t 2024 down 59.1% volatile
79 Latvia 14,500 t 2024 up 50.7% volatile
80 Colombia 13,780 t 2024 up 513.3% volatile
81 Finland 9,170 t 2024 up 76.0% volatile
82 Montenegro 8,717 t 2024 up 77.9% rising
83 Madagascar 7,209 t 2024 up 3.4% rising
84 Ecuador 7,197 t 2024 down 2.8% volatile
85 Zimbabwe 6,583 t 2024 up 40.1% rising
86 Libya 5,814 t 2024 down 66.7% volatile
87 Malawi 2,948 t 2024 down 8.0% falling
88 Cyprus 2,830 t 2024 down 41.6% falling
89 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 2,782 t 2024 up 15.0% volatile
90 Estonia 2,160 t 2024 down 6.4% volatile
91 Bhutan 2,102 t 2024 down 73.7% volatile
92 Caribbean 1,894 t 2024 up 27.0% rising
93 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1,679 t 2024 up 69.6% volatile
94 Luxembourg 1,470 t 2024 down 43.8% volatile
95 China, Taiwan Province of 1,250 t 2024 down 17.1% volatile
96 Palestine 777.88 t 2022 down 14.5% rising
97 Kenya 744 t 2024 up 22.8% volatile
98 Paraguay 673.65 t 2024 down 5.6% rising
99 Grenada 214.9 t 2024 down 57.2% falling
100 Honduras 194.33 t 2024 up 7.8% rising
101 Malta 0 t 2024 down 100.0% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Apples — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
130 places, 7,019 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.