Bees — Stocks 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
130
Highest
12.65 million No
India
Lowest
0 No
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Median
196,013 No
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
8,968

What the numbers show

Bees — Stocks is currently reported for 130 countries. The highest value is 12.65 million No in India; the lowest is 0 No in Bolivia (Plurinational State of).

The median across all reporting countries is 196,013 No, and the mean is 949,317 No.

Over the past decade 96 countries rose and 29 fell. The largest increase was in North Macedonia (up 329.0%), and the largest decrease in Georgia (down 51.7%).

Bees — Stocks: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 India 12.65 million No 2024 up 7.2% rising
2 China 9.54 million No 2024 up 5.2% rising
3 China, mainland 9.36 million No 2024 up 4.6% rising
4 USSR 9.20 million No 1991 up 15.0% falling
5 Türkiye 8.96 million No 2024 up 26.5% volatile
6 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 7.26 million No 2024 up 3.8% volatile
7 Ethiopia 6.71 million No 2024 up 14.0% rising
8 Ethiopia PDR 3.95 million No 1992 up 12.9% rising
9 United Republic of Tanzania 3.12 million No 2024 up 7.4% volatile
10 Argentina 2.99 million No 2024 up 0.2% rising
11 Spain 2.80 million No 2023 up 14.7% volatile
12 Russian Federation 2.67 million No 2024 down 20.1% falling
13 Romania 2.40 million No 2023 up 91.1% rising
14 Poland 2.35 million No 2023 up 56.7% rising
15 Mexico 2.14 million No 2024 up 8.0% rising
16 Republic of Korea 2.13 million No 2024 up 9.1% volatile
17 Greece 2.02 million No 2023 up 38.6% rising
18 Kenya 1.87 million No 2024 up 30.7% volatile
19 France 1.79 million No 2023 up 125.5% rising
20 Italy 1.59 million No 2023 up 21.1% rising
21 Angola 1.20 million No 2024 up 4.6% rising
22 Serbia 1.17 million No 2024 up 73.0% rising
23 Hungary 1.17 million No 2023 up 72.7% rising
24 Brazil 1.04 million No 2024 up 1.9% rising
25 Australia and New Zealand 1.03 million No 2024 up 0.7% rising
26 Germany 1.01 million No 2024 up 36.6% falling
27 Czechoslovakia 903,600 No 1992 down 4.7% rising
28 Bulgaria 817,000 No 2023 up 50.9% falling
29 Canada 745,945 No 2024 up 7.1% rising
30 Uzbekistan 742,489 No 2024 up 121.6% volatile
31 Egypt 714,869 No 2024 down 23.1% rising
32 Portugal 678,000 No 2023 up 203.5% volatile
33 Uruguay 644,912 No 2024 up 10.6% volatile
34 Tunisia 630,000 No 2024 up 7.0% volatile
35 Albania 587,296 No 2024 up 124.6% volatile
36 Azerbaijan 583,286 No 2024 up 140.0% volatile
37 New Zealand 533,838 No 2024 up 5.2% volatile
38 Syrian Arab Republic 532,545 No 2024 up 4.9% volatile
39 Yugoslav SFR 520,275 No 1991 down 41.7% flat
40 Czechia 510,000 No 2024 down 13.3% rising
41 Australia 500,220 No 2024 down 3.8% rising
42 Austria 494,000 No 2023 up 29.1% falling
43 Croatia 450,000 No 2023 down 17.8% volatile
44 Algeria 440,934 No 2024 up 10.2% rising
45 Caribbean 435,854 No 2024 up 25.8% rising
46 Bosnia and Herzegovina 432,025 No 2024 up 10.1% volatile
47 Chile 404,643 No 2024 up 28.3% flat
48 Morocco 393,550 No 2024 up 4.9% falling
49 Pakistan 384,742 No 2024 down 0.7% volatile
50 Burundi 352,330 No 2024 up 73.3% volatile
51 Slovakia 342,000 No 2023 up 34.2% rising
52 Lebanon 325,498 No 2024 up 62.7% volatile
53 North Macedonia 316,925 No 2024 up 329.0% volatile
54 Senegal 310,882 No 2024 down 1.0% volatile
55 Cameroon 308,239 No 2024 down 1.8% rising
56 Serbia and Montenegro 308,111 No 2005 up 50.3% rising
57 Tajikistan 274,320 No 2024 up 31.0% volatile
58 Viet Nam 272,500 No 2024 up 9.0% volatile
59 Lithuania 226,350 No 2024 up 145.8% rising
60 Cuba 220,961 No 2024 up 30.2% rising
61 El Salvador 216,235 No 2024 up 0.5% rising
62 Republic of Moldova 211,964 No 2024 up 82.8% rising
63 Slovenia 208,000 No 2023 up 230.2% volatile
64 Switzerland 203,875 No 2024 up 21.1% falling
65 Japan 199,326 No 2024 up 4.9% falling
66 Georgia 192,700 No 2024 down 51.7% volatile
67 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 191,000 No 1987 up 6.1% falling
68 Armenia 190,831 No 2024 down 21.0% rising
69 China, Taiwan Province of 180,494 No 2024 up 44.4% falling
70 Sweden 179,000 No 2023 up 98.7% falling
71 Oman 178,069 No 2024 up 177.8% volatile
72 Yemen 157,103 No 2024 down 7.6% volatile
73 Kyrgyzstan 155,350 No 2024 up 65.5% rising
74 Belarus 149,300 No 2024 down 31.8% falling
75 Madagascar 136,668 No 2024 up 2.0% falling
76 Israel 125,321 No 2024 up 25.3% rising
77 Chad 123,804 No 2024 down 0.6% rising
78 Montenegro 113,794 No 2024 up 163.4% rising
79 Colombia 110,515 No 2024 down 7.9% rising
80 Dominican Republic 96,898 No 2024 up 2.5% rising
81 Latvia 96,600 No 2024 up 12.3% rising
82 Jordan 84,442 No 2024 up 114.2% volatile
83 Uganda 83,645 No 2024 up 5.9% rising
84 Finland 82,000 No 2023 up 90.7% rising
85 Guatemala 80,411 No 2024 down 17.9% falling
86 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 78,000 No 1987 up 1.3% rising
87 Jamaica 76,623 No 2024 up 51.4% volatile
88 Sudan 76,466 No 2024 up 0.5% flat
89 Sudan (former) 75,500 No 2011 up 3.4% rising
90 Guinea 63,508 No 2024 up 1.6% rising
91 Palestine 62,900 No 2022 up 38.2% rising
92 Myanmar 61,224 No 2024 down 1.3% volatile
93 Zambia 60,600 No 2024 up 6.3% rising
94 Paraguay 60,380 No 2024 up 0.6% rising
95 Cyprus 56,000 No 2023 up 37.3% rising
96 Estonia 51,900 No 2024 up 33.1% rising
97 Mozambique 48,456 No 2024 up 7.7% rising
98 Ecuador 47,889 No 2024 up 4.1% rising
99 Costa Rica 40,769 No 2024 down 11.2% rising
100 Mali 38,238 No 2024 down 4.4% rising
101 Libya 36,371 No 2024 down 1.7% rising
102 Belgium 33,314 No 2017 up 12.9% rising
103 Belgium-Luxembourg 29,000 No 1999 up 3.6% falling
104 Haiti 27,470 No 2024 up 1.7% rising
105 Melanesia 23,282 No 2024 up 73.6% volatile
106 Timor-Leste 20,000 No 2024 unchanged rising
107 Mongolia 15,434 No 2024 up 132.3% volatile
108 Polynesia 14,535 No 2024 down 1.6% rising
109 Fiji 12,480 No 2024 up 70.5% volatile
110 Samoa 11,111 No 2024 up 1.0% rising
111 New Caledonia 10,651 No 2024 up 74.8% volatile
112 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 10,415 No 2024 down 9.4% volatile
113 Honduras 8,482 No 2024 down 20.4% volatile
114 Trinidad and Tobago 7,176 No 2024 up 187.0% falling
115 Luxembourg 7,000 No 2023 up 99.4% falling
116 Puerto Rico 6,726 No 2024 up 192.8% volatile
117 Guinea-Bissau 6,671 No 2024 down 0.4% rising
118 Guyana 4,352 No 2024 up 2.6% rising
119 Rwanda 4,242 No 2024 up 13.1% volatile
120 Ukraine 2,166 No 2024 down 24.6% falling
121 Belize 2,029 No 2024 down 3.4% volatile
122 French Polynesia 1,615 No 2024 down 15.0% volatile
123 Tonga 897 No 2024 down 8.5% rising
124 Niue 825 No 2024 up 0.9% falling
125 Guadeloupe 800 No 2006 unchanged rising
126 Cook Islands 47 No 2024 up 17.5% volatile
127 Tuvalu 39 No 2024 up 2.6% volatile
128 Nigeria 0 No 1992 volatile
128 Martinique 0 No 2006 volatile
128 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 0 No 1992 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
Bees — Stocks
Unit
No
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
162 places, 8,968 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.