Beeswax — 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...
What the numbers show
Beeswax — Production is currently reported for 59 countries. The highest value is 24,521 t in India; the lowest is 0 t in Ethiopia PDR.
The median across all reporting countries is 254.39 t, and the mean is 1,167 t.
Over the past decade 35 countries rose and 19 fell. The largest increase was in Kenya (up 61.6%), and the largest decrease in Ethiopia PDR (down 100.0%).
Beeswax — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 24,521 t | 2024 | up 3.9% | rising |
| 2 | Ethiopia | 5,934 t | 2024 | up 12.3% | rising |
| 3 | Argentina | 5,212 t | 2024 | up 7.1% | rising |
| 4 | Republic of Korea | 4,067 t | 2024 | up 4.2% | volatile |
| 4 | Türkiye | 3,316 t | 2024 | down 18.2% | rising |
| 5 | Kenya | 4,041 t | 2024 | up 61.6% | volatile |
| 5 | United Republic of Tanzania | 1,908 t | 2024 | up 1.6% | rising |
| 6 | Angola | 2,321 t | 2024 | up 0.8% | rising |
| 7 | Brazil | 1,796 t | 2024 | up 5.6% | rising |
| 7 | Syrian Arab Republic | 156.36 t | 2024 | up 14.3% | volatile |
| 8 | Spain | 1,519 t | 2017 | down 3.1% | rising |
| 8 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 71.63 t | 2024 | down 4.7% | falling |
| 9 | Uruguay | 1,234 t | 2024 | up 13.5% | volatile |
| 9 | Timor-Leste | 40 t | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
| 10 | Dominican Republic | 1,140 t | 2024 | up 10.4% | volatile |
| 10 | Polynesia | 0 t | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 11 | Mexico | 1,120 t | 2024 | down 39.8% | volatile |
| 12 | Central African Republic | 810.29 t | 2024 | up 4.0% | rising |
| 13 | Chile | 629.13 t | 2024 | up 3.0% | flat |
| 14 | Uganda | 613.91 t | 2024 | down 52.0% | rising |
| 15 | Australia and New Zealand | 552.99 t | 2024 | down 1.3% | rising |
| 16 | Pakistan | 463.44 t | 2024 | down 0.3% | volatile |
| 17 | France | 438.42 t | 2017 | up 9.6% | rising |
| 18 | Caribbean | 1,466 t | 2024 | up 8.4% | rising |
| 18 | Madagascar | 422.77 t | 2024 | up 4.1% | falling |
| 19 | Greece | 414.71 t | 2017 | up 2.2% | rising |
| 20 | Senegal | 374.68 t | 2024 | up 16.7% | volatile |
| 21 | Portugal | 324 t | 2017 | up 27.6% | falling |
| 22 | Bulgaria | 322.32 t | 2017 | up 7.4% | falling |
| 23 | Cameroon | 310.3 t | 2024 | up 4.0% | rising |
| 24 | Czechia | 301 t | 2017 | up 9.9% | rising |
| 25 | New Zealand | 298.54 t | 2024 | up 8.7% | rising |
| 26 | Australia | 254.45 t | 2024 | down 11.0% | falling |
| 27 | Jamaica | 254.39 t | 2024 | up 1.6% | rising |
| 28 | El Salvador | 217.36 t | 2024 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 29 | Sudan (former) | 180 t | 2011 | up 2.9% | rising |
| 30 | Burundi | 177.1 t | 2024 | down 0.1% | volatile |
| 31 | Paraguay | 173.9 t | 2024 | up 8.7% | rising |
| 32 | Sierra Leone | 156.02 t | 2024 | up 12.1% | rising |
| 33 | Guinea | 132 t | 2011 | up 14.8% | rising |
| 34 | Egypt | 118.32 t | 2024 | up 2.9% | falling |
| 35 | Slovakia | 115 t | 2017 | down 29.4% | rising |
| 36 | Guinea-Bissau | 100 t | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 37 | Ecuador | 93.87 t | 2024 | down 4.3% | rising |
| 38 | Mozambique | 91.41 t | 2024 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 39 | Italy | 89.9 t | 2017 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 40 | Costa Rica | 85.37 t | 2024 | down 2.4% | rising |
| 41 | Haiti | 71.68 t | 2024 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 42 | Guatemala | 71.13 t | 2024 | up 1.6% | volatile |
| 43 | Tunisia | 67.67 t | 2024 | up 4.5% | falling |
| 44 | Mali | 58.77 t | 2024 | down 8.5% | volatile |
| 45 | Morocco | 54.69 t | 2024 | up 8.6% | volatile |
| 46 | Rwanda | 47.17 t | 2024 | down 5.1% | volatile |
| 47 | Belgium | 40 t | 2017 | down 20.0% | volatile |
| 48 | Zambia | 36.62 t | 2024 | down 0.2% | rising |
| 49 | Cyprus | 32.71 t | 2017 | down 39.4% | rising |
| 50 | Honduras | 20 t | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 51 | Niue | 0 t | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 51 | Ethiopia PDR | 0 t | 1992 | down 100.0% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 64,538 t
- Asia 32,564 t
- Southern Asia 24,985 t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 13,164 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 19,613 t
- Middle Africa 3,442 t
- Africa 17,645 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 15,274 t
- Americas 13,776 t
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 1,606 t
- Eastern Africa 13,272 t
- South America 9,209 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 7,852 t
- Eastern Asia 4,067 t
- European Union (27) 3,597 t
- Europe 3,564 t
- Western Asia 3,472 t
- Southern Europe 2,348 t
- United States of America 1,586 t
- Northern America 1,586 t
- Central America 1,514 t
- Eastern Europe 738.32 t
- Western Africa 689.47 t
- Oceania 552.99 t
- Western Europe 478.42 t
- Northern Africa 240.69 t
- South-Eastern Asia 40 t
About this data
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.