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 Qatar.
The median across all reporting countries is 8,400 t, and the mean is 135,344 t.
Over the past decade 39 countries rose and 29 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 |
| 4 | United Republic of Tanzania | 58,218 t | 2024 | down 19.1% | volatile |
| 5 | Thailand | 250,799 t | 2024 | up 9.6% | volatile |
| 6 | Poland | 192,640 t | 2024 | up 977.6% | volatile |
| 6 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 772.45 t | 2024 | up 24.8% | rising |
| 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 | China | 44,318 t | 2024 | down 0.4% | volatile |
| 12 | China, mainland | 43,913 t | 2024 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 13 | Lithuania | 37,400 t | 2024 | up 3,016.7% | volatile |
| 14 | Oman | 32,498 t | 2024 | up 2,204.0% | volatile |
| 15 | Eritrea | 30,210 t | 2024 | up 3.8% | volatile |
| 16 | Tunisia | 29,000 t | 2024 | down 3.3% | rising |
| 17 | Russian Federation | 25,988 t | 2024 | up 57.9% | falling |
| 18 | Latvia | 24,800 t | 2024 | down 2.0% | rising |
| 19 | Hungary | 24,510 t | 2024 | up 334.6% | volatile |
| 20 | Belarus | 22,125 t | 2024 | down 18.3% | volatile |
| 21 | Republic of Korea | 21,538 t | 2024 | up 43.9% | volatile |
| 22 | Austria | 18,910 t | 2024 | down 63.2% | volatile |
| 23 | Argentina | 17,245 t | 2024 | up 6.0% | falling |
| 24 | Sierra Leone | 15,906 t | 2024 | up 65.4% | volatile |
| 25 | New Zealand | 14,988 t | 2024 | up 120.6% | volatile |
| 25 | Australia and New Zealand | 14,988 t | 2024 | up 120.6% | volatile |
| 27 | Burundi | 14,177 t | 2024 | up 359.7% | rising |
| 28 | Serbia | 12,824 t | 2024 | up 51.0% | volatile |
| 29 | Myanmar | 12,818 t | 2024 | down 5.5% | flat |
| 30 | South Africa | 12,676 t | 2024 | down 28.4% | volatile |
| 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 | Portugal | 720 t | 2024 | down 76.8% | volatile |
| 60 | Senegal | 690 t | 1990 | down 54.0% | falling |
| 61 | Luxembourg | 660 t | 2024 | up 337.1% | volatile |
| 62 | Palestine | 572.87 t | 2022 | down 11.4% | volatile |
| 63 | Switzerland | 543 t | 2024 | up 126.6% | volatile |
| 64 | China, Taiwan Province of | 404.2 t | 2024 | up 2.6% | volatile |
| 65 | Greece | 340 t | 2024 | down 92.0% | volatile |
| 66 | Mali | 164.07 t | 2024 | up 7.6% | volatile |
| 67 | Qatar | 0 t | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
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
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 6.56 million t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 6.61 million t
- Middle Africa 630,075 t
- Africa 6.60 million t
- Asia 575,383 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 6.56 million t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 6.56 million t
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 1,246 t
- Eastern Africa 5.90 million t
- Europe 787,300 t
- European Union (27) 719,720 t
- Western Europe 325,873 t
- Eastern Europe 292,573 t
- South-Eastern Asia 263,618 t
- Western Asia 144,062 t
- Central Asia 99,473 t
- Southern Europe 97,024 t
- Northern Europe 71,830 t
- Eastern Asia 67,038 t
- Americas 39,007 t
- Northern Africa 33,601 t
- South America 31,743 t
- Western Africa 18,701 t
- Southern Africa 16,902 t
- Oceania 14,988 t
- Central America 7,264 t
- Southern Asia 1,192 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.