Asparagus — 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
53
Highest
7.79 million t
China
Lowest
0 t
Bulgaria
Median
1,161 t
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
3,925

What the numbers show

Asparagus — Production is currently reported for 53 countries. The highest value is 7.79 million t in China; the lowest is 0 t in Bulgaria.

The median across all reporting countries is 1,161 t, and the mean is 314,611 t.

Over the past decade 26 countries rose and 24 fell. The largest increase was in Türkiye (up 3,410.3%), and the largest decrease in Bulgaria (down 100.0%).

Asparagus — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China 7.79 million t 2024 up 12.1% volatile
2 China, mainland 7.78 million t 2024 up 12.1% volatile
3 Peru 333,055 t 2024 down 11.8% volatile
4 Mexico 330,056 t 2024 up 93.9% volatile
5 Germany 108,130 t 2024 down 5.2% volatile
6 Italy 60,100 t 2024 up 38.6% rising
7 Spain 56,490 t 2024 up 15.7% rising
8 France 27,570 t 2024 up 34.1% falling
9 Japan 25,408 t 2024 down 10.8% rising
10 Thailand 24,264 t 2024 up 62.0% volatile
11 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 22,292 t 2024 up 1.1% rising
12 Poland 18,400 t 2024 up 510.1% volatile
13 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 13,320 t 2024 down 16.2% rising
14 Canada 11,430 t 2024 up 58.6% volatile
15 Argentina 10,829 t 2024 up 6.3% volatile
16 Greece 8,710 t 2024 down 9.4% volatile
17 Chile 8,414 t 2024 down 24.4% volatile
18 Australia and New Zealand 6,859 t 2024 down 35.2% rising
19 Australia 5,786 t 2024 down 32.0% rising
20 Hungary 5,340 t 2024 down 18.0% volatile
21 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 4,951 t 2024 down 14.5% volatile
22 Belgium 2,880 t 2024 down 20.0% volatile
23 Austria 2,720 t 2024 up 8.0% volatile
24 China, Taiwan Province of 2,559 t 2024 down 21.1% volatile
25 Türkiye 2,387 t 2024 up 3,410.3% volatile
26 Ecuador 1,958 t 2024 up 45.5% rising
27 Belgium-Luxembourg 1,161 t 1999 up 7.5% volatile
28 New Zealand 1,073 t 2024 down 48.4% volatile
29 Switzerland 777 t 2024 down 3.5% rising
30 North Macedonia 727.56 t 2024 up 4.5% rising
31 Croatia 590 t 2024 volatile
32 Lithuania 498.19 t 2017 down 37.7% falling
33 Philippines 404.4 t 2024 down 86.2% volatile
34 Colombia 402.5 t 2024 up 483.3% volatile
35 Czechia 340 t 2024 down 53.4% falling
36 Slovakia 320 t 2023 down 67.2% volatile
36 Denmark 320 t 2024 up 52.4% volatile
38 Zimbabwe 302.75 t 2024 up 1.8% rising
39 Slovenia 300 t 2024 up 33.9% volatile
40 Tunisia 268.19 t 2024 up 7.8% volatile
41 Sweden 260 t 2024 up 23.8% rising
42 Portugal 250 t 2024 down 10.7% volatile
43 Kenya 213.47 t 2024 up 77.9% volatile
44 Costa Rica 134.43 t 2024 down 2.6% flat
45 Israel 108 t 2024 up 38.5% volatile
46 Morocco 100 t 2024 down 96.0% volatile
47 Luxembourg 90 t 2024 up 200.0% rising
48 Bhutan 83.33 t 2024 down 59.6% volatile
49 Finland 50 t 2024 up 257.1% volatile
50 Romania 10 t 2024 down 50.0% volatile
51 Estonia 0 t 2024 flat
51 Comoros 0 t 2021 volatile
51 Bulgaria 0 t 2022 down 100.0% falling

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
Asparagus — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
82 places, 3,925 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.