Fat of camels — 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
Fat of camels — Production is currently reported for 38 countries. The highest value is 5,266 t in Saudi Arabia; the lowest is 0 t in Ethiopia PDR.
The median across all reporting countries is 387.16 t, and the mean is 911.11 t.
Over the past decade 35 countries rose and 3 fell. The largest increase was in Mali (up 557.9%), and the largest decrease in Ethiopia PDR (down 100.0%).
Fat of camels — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saudi Arabia | 5,266 t | 2024 | up 37.8% | rising |
| 2 | Sudan | 3,873 t | 2024 | up 1.6% | flat |
| 3 | Sudan (former) | 3,707 t | 2011 | up 70.6% | volatile |
| 4 | United Arab Emirates | 2,755 t | 2024 | up 53.1% | volatile |
| 5 | Somalia | 2,693 t | 2024 | up 10.1% | volatile |
| 6 | China (People’s Republic of) | 2,064 t | 2024 | up 165.4% | rising |
| 6 | China, mainland | 2,064 t | 2024 | up 165.4% | rising |
| 8 | Kenya | 1,399 t | 2024 | up 19.8% | volatile |
| 9 | Oman | 1,292 t | 2024 | up 24.3% | volatile |
| 10 | Egypt | 1,189 t | 2024 | up 153.0% | rising |
| 11 | Ethiopia | 1,118 t | 2024 | up 32.9% | volatile |
| 12 | Turkmenistan | 1,087 t | 2024 | up 117.0% | rising |
| 13 | Mongolia | 830.84 t | 2024 | up 82.1% | falling |
| 14 | Mauritania | 805.27 t | 2024 | up 17.1% | rising |
| 15 | Niger | 678.37 t | 2024 | up 12.3% | volatile |
| 16 | Kazakhstan | 543.32 t | 2024 | up 49.1% | rising |
| 17 | Algeria | 478.62 t | 2024 | up 29.8% | volatile |
| 18 | Morocco | 425.71 t | 2024 | up 18.4% | rising |
| 19 | Chad | 400.89 t | 2024 | up 24.3% | volatile |
| 20 | Pakistan | 373.44 t | 2024 | up 13.3% | rising |
| 21 | Libya | 285.79 t | 2024 | up 9.4% | falling |
| 22 | Afghanistan | 255.44 t | 2024 | up 2.3% | falling |
| 23 | Yemen | 236.91 t | 2024 | up 20.6% | rising |
| 24 | Tunisia | 184.57 t | 2024 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 25 | Iraq | 129.99 t | 2024 | up 93.5% | volatile |
| 26 | Eritrea | 92.87 t | 2024 | up 42.8% | rising |
| 27 | Uzbekistan | 92.5 t | 2024 | up 60.3% | volatile |
| 28 | Kuwait | 72.86 t | 2024 | up 48.9% | volatile |
| 29 | Jordan | 59.25 t | 2024 | up 1.4% | volatile |
| 30 | Qatar | 54.71 t | 2024 | up 106.4% | volatile |
| 31 | Djibouti | 45.64 t | 2024 | up 1.6% | rising |
| 32 | Mali | 32.17 t | 2024 | up 557.9% | volatile |
| 33 | Burkina Faso | 10.93 t | 2024 | up 67.4% | rising |
| 34 | Israel | 9.94 t | 2024 | up 4.4% | volatile |
| 35 | Bahrain | 9.12 t | 2024 | up 155.5% | volatile |
| 36 | Russian Federation | 6.72 t | 2024 | down 33.5% | falling |
| 37 | Senegal | 0.72 t | 2024 | down 25.8% | volatile |
| 38 | Ethiopia PDR | 0 t | 1992 | down 100.0% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 14,704 t
- Africa 13,713 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 11,715 t
- Western Asia 9,912 t
- Northern Africa 6,436 t
- Türkiye 1.03 t
- Eastern Africa 5,348 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 5,050 t
- Eastern Asia 2,895 t
- Central Asia 1,723 t
- Western Africa 1,527 t
- Southern Asia 1,246 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.