Areca nuts — 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
13
Highest
1.41 million t
India
Lowest
12.96 t
Maldives
Median
70,866 t
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
1,282

What the numbers show

Areca nuts — Production is currently reported for 13 countries. The highest value is 1.41 million t in India; the lowest is 12.96 t in Maldives.

The median across all reporting countries is 70,866 t, and the mean is 186,201 t.

Over the past decade 9 countries rose and 3 fell. The largest increase was in Maldives (up 332.0%), and the largest decrease in Malaysia (down 93.4%).

Areca nuts — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 India 1.41 million t 2024 up 126.8% volatile
2 Bangladesh 356,029 t 2024 up 66.5% volatile
3 Myanmar 262,835 t 2024 up 49.1% volatile
4 China 88,525 t 2024 down 27.1% volatile
4 China, Taiwan Province of 88,525 t 2024 down 27.1% volatile
6 Indonesia 75,265 t 2024 up 60.2% volatile
7 Sri Lanka 70,866 t 2024 up 68.8% volatile
8 Thailand 38,273 t 2024 up 5.7% volatile
9 Nepal 14,781 t 2024 up 268.8% volatile
10 Bhutan 14,405 t 2024 up 92.9% volatile
11 Kenya 104.76 t 1990 flat
12 Malaysia 24.14 t 2024 down 93.4% volatile
13 Maldives 12.96 t 2024 up 332.0% 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
Areca nuts — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
25 places, 1,282 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.