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Cereal seed quantity (FAO, metric tonnes) by country

Data include the amounts of the commodity in question set aside for sowing or planting (or generally for reproduction purposes, e.g. sugar cane planted, potatoes for seed, eggs for hatching and fish for bait, whether domestically produced or imported) during the reference period. Account is taken of double or...

Countries reporting
50
Highest
427,216 FAO, metric tonnes
Nigeria
Lowest
0 FAO, metric tonnes
Djibouti
Median
44,738 FAO, metric tonnes
Years covered
51
1961–2011
Data points
2,772

What the numbers show

Cereal seed quantity (FAO, metric tonnes) is currently reported for 50 countries. The highest value is 427,216 FAO, metric tonnes in Nigeria; the lowest is 0 FAO, metric tonnes in Djibouti.

The median across all reporting countries is 44,738 FAO, metric tonnes, and the mean is 80,615 FAO, metric tonnes.

Over the past decade 40 countries rose and 8 fell. The largest increase was in Zambia (up 133.7%), and the largest decrease in South Africa (down 40.7%).

Cereal seed quantity: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Nigeria 427,216 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 5.5% rising
2 Morocco 382,170 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 12.6% rising
3 Ethiopia 374,260 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 50.9% rising
4 Egypt 350,336 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 26.1% rising
5 Algeria 253,336 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 10.8% rising
6 Mali 239,698 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 94.5% volatile
7 Tanzania 195,343 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 87.9% volatile
8 Niger 165,158 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 26.7% rising
9 Madagascar 162,205 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 56.6% rising
10 Tunisia 116,190 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 28.9% flat
11 Sudan 111,752 FAO, metric tonnes 2010 up 6.1% volatile
12 Democratic Republic of Congo 91,047 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 7.4% rising
13 Kenya 85,453 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 25.5% rising
14 Côte d’Ivoire 81,084 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 12.2% rising
15 South Africa 80,403 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 40.7% falling
16 Guinea 70,730 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 52.4% volatile
17 Burkina Faso 67,641 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 18.5% rising
18 Uganda 64,948 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 37.1% rising
19 Sierra Leone 63,412 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 46.5% rising
20 Cameroon 63,261 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 98.5% rising
21 Mozambique 59,887 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 58.7% rising
22 Malawi 59,866 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 12.4% rising
23 Zimbabwe 53,931 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 31.3% rising
24 Chad 49,831 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 45.0% rising
25 Ghana 45,778 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 13.6% rising
26 Libya 43,699 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 4.1% rising
27 Angola 40,019 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 102.5% rising
28 Senegal 37,927 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 1.9% rising
29 Zambia 36,336 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 133.7% falling
30 Togo 25,114 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 27.7% rising
31 Benin 21,109 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 11.3% rising
32 Rwanda 14,639 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 82.2% rising
33 Somalia 14,066 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 2.0% rising
34 Eritrea 12,927 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 2.8% rising
35 Liberia 12,500 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 108.3% falling
36 Gambia 9,340 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 84.2% volatile
37 Guinea-Bissau 8,995 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 42.6% rising
38 Burundi 7,672 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 18.5% rising
39 Central African Republic 6,601 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 2.6% rising
40 Namibia 6,133 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 19.4% rising
41 Mauritania 5,085 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 32.1% rising
42 Lesotho 4,368 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 8.0% falling
43 Botswana 3,318 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 62.6% rising
44 Comoros 2,795 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 18.6% rising
45 Eswatini 1,955 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 29.3% falling
46 Gabon 841 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 52.1% volatile
47 Congo 324 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 0.3% falling
48 Sao Tome and Principe 39 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 8.3% volatile
49 Mauritius 1 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 unchanged volatile
50 Djibouti 0 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 — flat

Regions and income groups

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

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About this data

Indicator
Cereal seed quantity (FAO, metric tonnes)
Unit
FAO, metric tonnes
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
56 places, 2,772 data points, 1961–2011
Last refreshed

Data include the amounts of the commodity in question set aside for sowing or planting (or generally for reproduction purposes, e.g. sugar cane planted, potatoes for seed, eggs for hatching and fish for bait, whether domestically produced or imported) during the reference period. Account is taken of double or successive sowing or planting whenever it occurs. The data of seed include also, when it is the case, the quantities necessary for sowing or planting the area relating to crops harvested green for fodder or for food.(e.g. green peas, green beans, maize for forage) Data for seed element are stored in tonnes (t). Whenever official data were not available, seed figures have been estimated either as a percentage of supply (e.g. eggs for hatching) or by multiplying a seed rate with the area under the crop of the subsequent year.