Cereals n.e.c. — 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
Cereals n.e.c. — Production is currently reported for 69 countries. The highest value is 5.80 million t in Ethiopia; the lowest is 0 t in Malta.
The median across all reporting countries is 8,100 t, and the mean is 135,161 t.
Over the past decade 39 countries rose and 28 fell. The largest increase was in Czechoslovakia (up 8,900.0%), and the largest decrease in Qatar (down 100.0%).
Cereals n.e.c. — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ethiopia | 5.80 million t | 2024 | up 22.1% | rising |
| 2 | Ethiopia PDR | 1.18 million t | 1992 | up 9.4% | falling |
| 3 | Chad | 627,560 t | 2024 | up 26.9% | volatile |
| 4 | France | 297,400 t | 2024 | up 167.3% | volatile |
| 5 | Thailand | 250,799 t | 2024 | up 9.6% | volatile |
| 6 | Poland | 192,640 t | 2024 | up 977.6% | volatile |
| 7 | Saudi Arabia | 92,664 t | 2024 | — | rising |
| 8 | Kazakhstan | 86,801 t | 2024 | down 71.0% | volatile |
| 9 | Czechoslovakia | 72,000 t | 1992 | up 8,900.0% | volatile |
| 10 | Italy | 67,070 t | 2024 | down 50.4% | volatile |
| 11 | United Republic of Tanzania | 58,218 t | 2024 | down 19.1% | volatile |
| 12 | China | 44,318 t | 2024 | down 0.4% | volatile |
| 13 | China, mainland | 43,913 t | 2024 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 14 | Lithuania | 37,400 t | 2024 | up 3,016.7% | volatile |
| 15 | Oman | 32,498 t | 2024 | up 2,204.0% | volatile |
| 16 | Eritrea | 30,210 t | 2024 | up 3.8% | volatile |
| 17 | Tunisia | 29,000 t | 2024 | down 3.3% | rising |
| 18 | Russian Federation | 25,988 t | 2024 | up 57.9% | falling |
| 19 | Latvia | 24,800 t | 2024 | down 2.0% | rising |
| 20 | Hungary | 24,510 t | 2024 | up 334.6% | volatile |
| 21 | Belarus | 22,125 t | 2024 | down 18.3% | volatile |
| 22 | Republic of Korea | 21,538 t | 2024 | up 43.9% | volatile |
| 23 | Austria | 18,910 t | 2024 | down 63.2% | volatile |
| 24 | Argentina | 17,245 t | 2024 | up 6.0% | falling |
| 25 | Sierra Leone | 15,906 t | 2024 | up 65.4% | volatile |
| 26 | New Zealand | 14,988 t | 2024 | up 120.6% | volatile |
| 26 | Australia and New Zealand | 14,988 t | 2024 | up 120.6% | volatile |
| 28 | Burundi | 14,177 t | 2024 | up 359.7% | rising |
| 29 | Serbia | 12,824 t | 2024 | up 51.0% | volatile |
| 30 | Myanmar | 12,818 t | 2024 | down 5.5% | flat |
| 31 | Uzbekistan | 12,672 t | 2024 | up 76.0% | volatile |
| 32 | Spain | 11,340 t | 2024 | down 72.6% | volatile |
| 33 | Czechia | 9,010 t | 2024 | up 65.2% | falling |
| 34 | USSR | 8,400 t | 1991 | up 110.0% | volatile |
| 35 | Bulgaria | 8,100 t | 2024 | up 3,632.7% | volatile |
| 36 | Estonia | 8,080 t | 2024 | up 461.1% | volatile |
| 37 | Peru | 8,028 t | 2024 | up 4.1% | rising |
| 38 | Mexico | 7,264 t | 2024 | up 11.0% | volatile |
| 39 | Georgia | 6,967 t | 2024 | down 0.5% | rising |
| 40 | Armenia | 6,702 t | 2024 | down 63.3% | rising |
| 41 | Ukraine | 6,100 t | 2024 | down 41.2% | volatile |
| 42 | Colombia | 5,697 t | 2024 | up 108.0% | rising |
| 43 | Morocco | 4,601 t | 2024 | up 58.8% | volatile |
| 44 | Botswana | 4,226 t | 2024 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 45 | Slovenia | 3,910 t | 2024 | up 80.1% | volatile |
| 46 | Belgium | 3,160 t | 2024 | down 79.1% | volatile |
| 47 | Togo | 3,146 t | 2016 | up 218.1% | volatile |
| 48 | Congo | 2,515 t | 2024 | up 1.1% | rising |
| 49 | Zimbabwe | 2,300 t | 2024 | up 3.2% | flat |
| 50 | Romania | 2,290 t | 2024 | down 67.1% | volatile |
| 51 | Slovakia | 1,810 t | 2024 | up 1,408.3% | volatile |
| 52 | Finland | 1,550 t | 2024 | down 45.1% | volatile |
| 53 | Ireland | 1,478 t | 2017 | down 83.4% | volatile |
| 54 | Niger | 1,385 t | 2024 | down 10.7% | falling |
| 55 | Guinea-Bissau | 1,246 t | 2024 | down 9.8% | falling |
| 56 | Bhutan | 1,192 t | 2024 | down 4.5% | rising |
| 57 | Mongolia | 1,183 t | 2024 | down 64.7% | volatile |
| 58 | Croatia | 820 t | 2024 | down 86.1% | falling |
| 59 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 772.45 t | 2024 | up 24.8% | rising |
| 60 | Portugal | 720 t | 2024 | down 76.8% | volatile |
| 61 | Senegal | 690 t | 1990 | down 54.0% | falling |
| 62 | Luxembourg | 660 t | 2024 | up 337.1% | volatile |
| 63 | Palestine | 572.87 t | 2022 | down 11.4% | volatile |
| 64 | Switzerland | 543 t | 2024 | up 126.6% | volatile |
| 65 | China, Taiwan Province of | 404.2 t | 2024 | up 2.6% | volatile |
| 66 | Greece | 340 t | 2024 | down 92.0% | volatile |
| 67 | Mali | 164.07 t | 2024 | up 7.6% | volatile |
| 68 | Qatar | 0 t | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 68 | Malta | 0 t | 2024 | — | flat |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 8.02 million t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 6.61 million t
- Africa 6.60 million t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 6.56 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 6.56 million t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 6.56 million t
- Eastern Africa 5.90 million t
- Europe 787,300 t
- European Union (27) 719,720 t
- Middle Africa 630,075 t
- Asia 575,383 t
- Western Europe 325,873 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.