Dates — 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
Dates — Production is currently reported for 40 countries. The highest value is 1.93 million t in Saudi Arabia; the lowest is 29.25 t in Colombia.
The median across all reporting countries is 29,056 t, and the mean is 262,621 t.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 65,899.
Over the past decade 35 countries rose and 5 fell. The largest increase was in Namibia (up 439.2%), and the largest decrease in Spain (down 63.0%).
Dates — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saudi Arabia | 1.93 million t | 2024 | up 193.5% | volatile |
| 2 | Egypt | 1.75 million t | 2024 | up 19.5% | volatile |
| 3 | Algeria | 1.34 million t | 2024 | up 43.1% | volatile |
| 4 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 1.18 million t | 2024 | up 14.5% | volatile |
| 5 | Pakistan | 604,243 t | 2024 | up 12.5% | volatile |
| 6 | Iraq | 587,190 t | 2024 | down 11.4% | rising |
| 7 | Sudan | 443,134 t | 2024 | up 0.9% | flat |
| 8 | Sudan (former) | 432,100 t | 2011 | up 30.9% | volatile |
| 9 | Oman | 400,655 t | 2024 | up 26.2% | volatile |
| 10 | Tunisia | 400,219 t | 2024 | up 101.1% | volatile |
| 11 | United Arab Emirates | 333,632 t | 2024 | up 2.4% | volatile |
| 12 | Libya | 187,039 t | 2024 | up 10.1% | rising |
| 13 | China | 162,330 t | 2024 | up 4.9% | volatile |
| 13 | China, mainland | 162,330 t | 2024 | up 4.9% | volatile |
| 15 | Morocco | 111,887 t | 2024 | up 9.5% | rising |
| 16 | Kuwait | 102,213 t | 2024 | down 11.3% | volatile |
| 17 | Israel | 80,000 t | 2024 | up 96.3% | volatile |
| 18 | Yemen | 64,814 t | 2024 | up 24.0% | rising |
| 19 | Qatar | 35,318 t | 2024 | up 28.5% | volatile |
| 20 | Jordan | 32,618 t | 2024 | up 234.1% | volatile |
| 21 | Palestine | 25,494 t | 2022 | up 271.8% | volatile |
| 22 | Mauritania | 22,276 t | 2024 | up 18.1% | rising |
| 23 | Chad | 21,456 t | 2024 | up 6.6% | falling |
| 24 | Mexico | 17,598 t | 2024 | up 187.3% | volatile |
| 25 | Niger | 17,329 t | 2024 | up 14.2% | volatile |
| 26 | Albania | 15,280 t | 2024 | up 25.5% | rising |
| 27 | Somalia | 14,221 t | 2024 | up 7.1% | rising |
| 28 | Bahrain | 14,000 t | 2024 | up 3.9% | falling |
| 29 | Türkiye | 10,000 t | 1990 | up 163.2% | volatile |
| 30 | Namibia | 1,897 t | 2024 | up 439.2% | volatile |
| 31 | Spain | 1,848 t | 2017 | down 63.0% | falling |
| 32 | Syrian Arab Republic | 1,575 t | 2024 | down 46.9% | rising |
| 33 | Benin | 1,446 t | 2024 | up 8.2% | rising |
| 34 | Kenya | 1,097 t | 2024 | down 0.2% | rising |
| 35 | Mali | 759.25 t | 2024 | up 3.3% | volatile |
| 36 | Cameroon | 592.98 t | 2024 | up 4.1% | volatile |
| 37 | Peru | 461.49 t | 2024 | up 123.5% | falling |
| 38 | Eswatini | 309.83 t | 2024 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 39 | Djibouti | 136.13 t | 2024 | up 20.8% | rising |
| 40 | Colombia | 29.25 t | 2024 | up 39.3% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 9.95 million t
- Asia 5.55 million t
- Africa 4.31 million t
- Northern Africa 4.23 million t
- Western Asia 3.60 million t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 3.49 million t
- Southern Asia 1.79 million t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 588,700 t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 585,571 t
- Eastern Asia 162,330 t
- Americas 74,739 t
- Northern America 56,650 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.