Chestnuts, in shell — 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
Chestnuts, in shell — Production is currently reported for 42 countries. The highest value is 1.53 million t in China, mainland; the lowest is 0 t in Latvia.
The median across all reporting countries is 470 t, and the mean is 86,711 t.
Over the past decade 19 countries rose and 12 fell. The largest increase was in Slovenia (up 2,252.9%), and the largest decrease in Slovakia (down 100.0%).
Chestnuts, in shell — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China, mainland | 1.53 million t | 2024 | down 8.4% | volatile |
| 1 | China | 1.53 million t | 2024 | down 8.4% | volatile |
| 3 | Spain | 181,810 t | 2024 | up 1,026.7% | volatile |
| 4 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 84,090 t | 2024 | up 8.0% | rising |
| 5 | Türkiye | 74,300 t | 2024 | up 16.5% | rising |
| 6 | Italy | 64,330 t | 2024 | up 26.9% | falling |
| 7 | Republic of Korea | 52,241 t | 2024 | down 12.1% | volatile |
| 8 | Greece | 33,140 t | 2024 | up 17.9% | rising |
| 9 | Portugal | 27,160 t | 2024 | up 47.1% | volatile |
| 10 | Japan | 14,000 t | 2024 | down 34.6% | falling |
| 11 | USSR | 13,000 t | 1991 | up 103.1% | volatile |
| 12 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 12,948 t | 2024 | up 7.7% | rising |
| 13 | France | 8,950 t | 2024 | up 3.3% | volatile |
| 14 | Albania | 5,726 t | 2024 | down 13.1% | rising |
| 15 | Chile | 3,558 t | 2024 | up 223.4% | volatile |
| 16 | Yugoslav SFR | 2,800 t | 1991 | down 49.1% | falling |
| 17 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1,966 t | 2024 | up 61.2% | rising |
| 18 | North Macedonia | 1,520 t | 2024 | up 26.7% | volatile |
| 19 | Peru | 616.64 t | 2024 | up 1.1% | falling |
| 20 | Azerbaijan | 554.66 t | 2024 | down 28.7% | volatile |
| 21 | Serbia and Montenegro | 540 t | 2005 | down 61.4% | falling |
| 22 | Slovenia | 400 t | 2024 | up 2,252.9% | volatile |
| 23 | Switzerland | 282.91 t | 2024 | up 543.0% | rising |
| 24 | Hungary | 270 t | 2024 | down 10.0% | volatile |
| 25 | Ukraine | 200 t | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
| 26 | Cameroon | 144.8 t | 2024 | up 0.6% | volatile |
| 27 | Zimbabwe | 90.94 t | 2024 | up 10.1% | rising |
| 28 | Bulgaria | 60 t | 2024 | down 85.4% | volatile |
| 29 | Romania | 50 t | 2024 | up 92.3% | rising |
| 30 | Croatia | 20 t | 2024 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 31 | Sweden | 0 t | 2024 | — | flat |
| 31 | Luxembourg | 0 t | 2024 | — | flat |
| 31 | Brazil | 0 t | 2000 | — | volatile |
| 31 | Slovakia | 0 t | 2019 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 31 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 0 t | 2024 | — | flat |
| 31 | Estonia | 0 t | 2024 | — | flat |
| 31 | Finland | 0 t | 2024 | — | flat |
| 31 | Poland | 0 t | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 31 | Malta | 0 t | 2024 | — | flat |
| 31 | Ireland | 0 t | 2024 | — | flat |
| 31 | Lithuania | 0 t | 2024 | — | flat |
| 31 | Latvia | 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 2.10 million t
- Asia 1.68 million t
- Eastern Asia 1.61 million t
- Europe 325,885 t
- European Union (27) 316,190 t
- Southern Europe 316,072 t
- Americas 88,264 t
- South America 88,264 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 86,256 t
- Western Asia 74,855 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 13,183 t
- Western Europe 9,233 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.