Dates — Production by country
A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply...
What the numbers show
Dates — Production is currently reported for 33 countries. The highest value is 1,903 1000 t in Saudi Arabia; the lowest is 1 1000 t in Cameroon.
The median across all reporting countries is 76 1000 t, and the mean is 295.15 1000 t.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 1,903.
Over the past decade 20 countries rose and 6 fell. The largest increase was in Türkiye (up 284.8%), and the largest decrease in Spain (down 50.0%).
Dates — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saudi Arabia | 1,903 1000 t | 2023 | up 73.8% | rising |
| 2 | Egypt | 1,867 1000 t | 2023 | up 40.6% | rising |
| 3 | Algeria | 1,325 1000 t | 2023 | up 56.2% | rising |
| 4 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 1,024 1000 t | 2023 | up 1.0% | rising |
| 5 | Iraq | 636 1000 t | 2023 | down 5.9% | rising |
| 6 | Pakistan | 504 1000 t | 2023 | down 4.4% | flat |
| 7 | Oman | 395 1000 t | 2023 | up 28.2% | rising |
| 8 | Tunisia | 386 1000 t | 2023 | up 97.9% | rising |
| 9 | United Arab Emirates | 352 1000 t | 2023 | up 47.9% | falling |
| 10 | Libya | 188 1000 t | 2023 | up 12.6% | rising |
| 11 | China, mainland | 161 1000 t | 2023 | up 5.9% | rising |
| 11 | China | 161 1000 t | 2023 | up 5.9% | rising |
| 13 | Türkiye | 127 1000 t | 2023 | up 284.8% | volatile |
| 13 | Turkey | 127 1000 t | 2023 | up 284.8% | volatile |
| 15 | Kuwait | 123 1000 t | 2023 | up 18.3% | rising |
| 16 | Morocco | 107 1000 t | 2023 | down 4.5% | rising |
| 17 | Israel | 76 1000 t | 2023 | up 94.9% | rising |
| 18 | Yemen | 67 1000 t | 2023 | up 24.1% | rising |
| 19 | United States | 45 1000 t | 2023 | up 45.2% | rising |
| 20 | Qatar | 36 1000 t | 2023 | — | rising |
| 21 | Jordan | 32 1000 t | 2023 | up 166.7% | rising |
| 22 | Mauritania | 22 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 23 | Mexico | 17 1000 t | 2023 | up 142.9% | volatile |
| 23 | Niger | 17 1000 t | 2023 | up 6.2% | rising |
| 25 | Albania | 15 1000 t | 2023 | up 25.0% | rising |
| 26 | Bahrain | 14 1000 t | 2023 | — | flat |
| 27 | Syrian Arab Republic | 3 1000 t | 2023 | down 25.0% | falling |
| 27 | Syria | 3 1000 t | 2023 | down 25.0% | falling |
| 29 | Namibia | 2 1000 t | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 29 | Spain | 2 1000 t | 2018 | down 50.0% | falling |
| 31 | Peru | 1 1000 t | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 31 | Kenya | 1 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 31 | Cameroon | 1 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 9,952 1000 t
- Asia 5,477 1000 t
- Africa 4,398 1000 t
- Northern Africa 4,317 1000 t
- Western Asia 3,788 1000 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 3,487 1000 t
- Southern Asia 1,528 1000 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 592 1000 t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 587 1000 t
- Eastern Asia 161 1000 t
- Americas 62 1000 t
- United States of America 45 1000 t
- Northern America 45 1000 t
- Western Africa 42 1000 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 40 1000 t
- Middle Africa 22 1000 t
- Central America 17 1000 t
- Eastern Africa 15 1000 t
- Europe 15 1000 t
- Southern Europe 15 1000 t
- Southern Africa 2 1000 t
- European Union (27) 2 1000 t
- South America 1 1000 t
About this data
A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per caput supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it. Data on per capita food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.