Fibre Crops, Fibre Equivalent — 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
Fibre Crops, Fibre Equivalent — Production is currently reported for 144 countries. The highest value is 6.78 million t in China; the lowest is 0 t in Guadeloupe.
The median across all reporting countries is 9,246 t, and the mean is 275,841 t.
Over the past decade 62 countries rose and 74 fell. The largest increase was in Lithuania (up 69,900.0%), and the largest decrease in Germany (down 100.0%).
Fibre Crops, Fibre Equivalent — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 6.78 million t | 2024 | up 0.2% | rising |
| 2 | China, mainland | 6.78 million t | 2024 | up 0.2% | rising |
| 3 | India | 6.76 million t | 2024 | down 20.8% | rising |
| 3 | Türkiye | 785,062 t | 2024 | down 4.6% | rising |
| 4 | Brazil | 3.18 million t | 2024 | up 84.0% | rising |
| 5 | USSR | 3.04 million t | 1991 | down 17.8% | rising |
| 5 | United Republic of Tanzania | 168,126 t | 2024 | up 26.9% | falling |
| 6 | Bangladesh | 2.11 million t | 2024 | up 53.9% | rising |
| 6 | Viet Nam | 96,946 t | 2024 | up 3.9% | rising |
| 7 | Pakistan | 1.23 million t | 2024 | down 48.6% | rising |
| 7 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 42,000 t | 2024 | down 34.8% | falling |
| 8 | France | 1.19 million t | 2024 | up 129.3% | volatile |
| 8 | Syrian Arab Republic | 32,600 t | 2024 | down 42.7% | volatile |
| 9 | Uzbekistan | 1.05 million t | 2024 | down 13.4% | falling |
| 10 | Australia and New Zealand | 856,654 t | 2024 | up 14.0% | volatile |
| 10 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 28,076 t | 2024 | down 0.9% | volatile |
| 11 | Australia | 852,600 t | 2024 | up 14.0% | volatile |
| 11 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 18,503 t | 2024 | up 4.0% | falling |
| 12 | Argentina | 448,493 t | 2024 | up 24.2% | rising |
| 12 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 3,188 t | 2024 | up 9.2% | rising |
| 13 | Sri Lanka | 370,085 t | 2024 | up 8.9% | volatile |
| 13 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 2,890 t | 2024 | down 48.8% | volatile |
| 14 | Greece | 283,126 t | 2017 | down 22.2% | volatile |
| 14 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 2,240 t | 2024 | up 88.2% | volatile |
| 15 | Burkina Faso | 269,304 t | 2024 | down 14.0% | volatile |
| 15 | Polynesia | 393.11 t | 2024 | down 7.0% | falling |
| 16 | Mali | 225,480 t | 2024 | up 16.5% | volatile |
| 17 | Benin | 222,591 t | 2024 | up 66.6% | volatile |
| 18 | Turkmenistan | 210,083 t | 2024 | down 19.5% | falling |
| 19 | Mexico | 180,764 t | 2024 | down 42.4% | volatile |
| 20 | Cameroon | 171,919 t | 2024 | up 81.7% | volatile |
| 21 | Cambodia | 157,374 t | 2024 | up 3,863.8% | volatile |
| 22 | Sudan | 125,580 t | 2024 | up 218.5% | volatile |
| 23 | Myanmar | 112,515 t | 2024 | down 35.5% | rising |
| 24 | Kazakhstan | 105,582 t | 2024 | down 5.9% | rising |
| 25 | Côte d'Ivoire | 121,773 t | 2024 | down 15.1% | volatile |
| 25 | Belgium | 91,990 t | 2024 | up 26.4% | volatile |
| 26 | Egypt | 89,842 t | 2024 | down 24.0% | falling |
| 26 | Caribbean | 29,359 t | 2024 | down 0.9% | falling |
| 27 | Tajikistan | 88,614 t | 2024 | down 32.1% | falling |
| 28 | Ethiopia | 85,690 t | 2024 | up 28.4% | rising |
| 29 | Azerbaijan | 83,178 t | 2024 | up 480.1% | volatile |
| 30 | Nigeria | 79,602 t | 2024 | down 22.7% | volatile |
| 31 | Zimbabwe | 76,821 t | 2024 | up 79.7% | rising |
| 32 | Russian Federation | 75,740 t | 2024 | down 14.5% | falling |
| 33 | Philippines | 74,119 t | 2024 | up 1.6% | falling |
| 34 | Spain | 70,340 t | 2017 | up 58.0% | volatile |
| 35 | Indonesia | 69,350 t | 2024 | down 5.5% | rising |
| 36 | Uganda | 52,262 t | 2024 | up 96.4% | volatile |
| 37 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 44,040 t | 2024 | up 88.4% | rising |
| 38 | Ecuador | 43,822 t | 2024 | up 4.5% | rising |
| 39 | Afghanistan | 42,178 t | 2024 | up 181.4% | falling |
| 40 | Belarus | 37,225 t | 2024 | down 22.8% | falling |
| 41 | Thailand | 32,625 t | 2024 | up 0.4% | volatile |
| 42 | Ethiopia PDR | 29,315 t | 1992 | down 34.8% | rising |
| 43 | Madagascar | 29,133 t | 2024 | down 4.2% | falling |
| 44 | Chad | 28,000 t | 2024 | down 51.1% | rising |
| 45 | Canada | 26,870 t | 2024 | down 9.4% | volatile |
| 46 | Colombia | 25,840 t | 2024 | down 42.8% | volatile |
| 47 | Mozambique | 25,101 t | 2024 | down 34.5% | volatile |
| 48 | Kenya | 23,174 t | 2024 | down 17.0% | falling |
| 49 | South Africa | 21,412 t | 2024 | up 66.3% | volatile |
| 50 | Sudan (former) | 19,352 t | 2011 | down 77.1% | falling |
| 51 | Chile | 18,399 t | 2024 | down 1.3% | rising |
| 52 | Central African Republic | 18,251 t | 2024 | up 126.3% | falling |
| 53 | Togo | 18,003 t | 2024 | down 51.5% | volatile |
| 54 | Kyrgyzstan | 16,218 t | 2024 | down 32.8% | falling |
| 55 | Cuba | 15,972 t | 2024 | up 3.3% | falling |
| 56 | Guinea | 15,878 t | 2024 | up 6.6% | volatile |
| 57 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 15,100 t | 1999 | up 39.6% | volatile |
| 58 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 14,500 t | 2024 | down 3.3% | falling |
| 59 | Haiti | 12,443 t | 2024 | down 6.8% | falling |
| 60 | Israel | 11,550 t | 2024 | down 2.2% | volatile |
| 61 | Nepal | 10,265 t | 2024 | down 31.3% | volatile |
| 62 | Ghana | 9,762 t | 2024 | up 79.9% | volatile |
| 63 | Sierra Leone | 9,505 t | 2024 | up 1.6% | rising |
| 64 | Paraguay | 8,987 t | 2024 | up 66.7% | volatile |
| 65 | Malawi | 8,682 t | 2024 | down 81.3% | volatile |
| 66 | Czechoslovakia | 8,486 t | 1992 | down 59.4% | falling |
| 67 | Peru | 8,150 t | 2024 | down 75.0% | volatile |
| 68 | Nicaragua | 7,786 t | 2023 | up 15.9% | volatile |
| 69 | Malaysia | 5,620 t | 2024 | down 25.8% | volatile |
| 70 | Poland | 5,420 t | 2024 | up 56.5% | volatile |
| 71 | Senegal | 5,015 t | 2024 | down 44.9% | volatile |
| 72 | Italy | 4,560 t | 2024 | up 121.1% | volatile |
| 73 | New Zealand | 4,054 t | 2024 | up 6.6% | rising |
| 74 | South Sudan | 3,732 t | 2024 | up 13.1% | rising |
| 75 | Zambia | 3,175 t | 2024 | down 92.5% | volatile |
| 76 | Lithuania | 2,800 t | 2024 | up 69,900.0% | volatile |
| 77 | El Salvador | 2,784 t | 2024 | up 0.3% | volatile |
| 78 | Romania | 2,680 t | 2024 | up 19.1% | volatile |
| 79 | Somalia | 2,596 t | 2024 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 80 | Angola | 2,522 t | 2024 | down 0.6% | volatile |
| 81 | Tunisia | 2,379 t | 2024 | up 4.6% | volatile |
| 82 | Austria | 2,140 t | 2024 | down 45.7% | volatile |
| 83 | Niger | 2,032 t | 2024 | up 2.9% | falling |
| 84 | Guinea-Bissau | 1,936 t | 2024 | up 10.6% | volatile |
| 85 | Morocco | 1,786 t | 2024 | up 2.1% | volatile |
| 86 | Bulgaria | 1,627 t | 2017 | up 313.6% | volatile |
| 87 | Yugoslav SFR | 1,573 t | 1991 | down 69.6% | volatile |
| 88 | Costa Rica | 1,515 t | 2024 | up 3.7% | volatile |
| 89 | Yemen | 1,337 t | 2024 | down 77.4% | falling |
| 90 | Guatemala | 1,313 t | 2024 | down 11.1% | volatile |
| 91 | Honduras | 1,167 t | 2024 | up 11.2% | volatile |
| 92 | Jamaica | 862.86 t | 2024 | up 17.9% | rising |
| 93 | Ukraine | 840 t | 2024 | down 47.8% | volatile |
| 94 | China, Taiwan Province of | 637.58 t | 2024 | down 3.8% | volatile |
| 95 | Eswatini | 587.37 t | 2024 | up 11.9% | volatile |
| 96 | Samoa | 393.11 t | 2024 | down 7.0% | falling |
| 97 | Botswana | 344.17 t | 2024 | down 1.7% | falling |
| 98 | Bhutan | 343.1 t | 2024 | up 2.6% | volatile |
| 99 | Albania | 280.6 t | 2024 | down 2.2% | volatile |
| 100 | Réunion | 250 t | 2006 | down 2.7% | rising |
| 101 | Burundi | 236.72 t | 2024 | down 71.3% | volatile |
| 102 | Equatorial Guinea | 232.45 t | 2024 | down 1.5% | falling |
| 103 | Gambia | 186.07 t | 2024 | down 3.3% | volatile |
| 104 | Czechia | 130 t | 2024 | down 80.1% | volatile |
| 104 | Hungary | 130 t | 2019 | down 74.0% | volatile |
| 106 | Mauritius | 87.87 t | 2024 | up 0.1% | volatile |
| 107 | Slovakia | 80 t | 2020 | down 27.9% | volatile |
| 108 | Serbia and Montenegro | 44 t | 2005 | down 92.8% | volatile |
| 109 | Antigua and Barbuda | 37.53 t | 2024 | up 2.1% | volatile |
| 110 | Dominican Republic | 33.51 t | 2024 | down 7.5% | volatile |
| 111 | Algeria | 28.98 t | 2024 | up 3.5% | volatile |
| 112 | Republic of Korea | 16.3 t | 2024 | down 18.9% | volatile |
| 113 | Grenada | 8.46 t | 2024 | down 51.7% | volatile |
| 114 | Iraq | 4.29 t | 2024 | down 99.1% | volatile |
| 115 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 1.17 t | 2024 | up 11.4% | volatile |
| 116 | Japan | 0.57 t | 2024 | up 5.6% | volatile |
| 117 | Comoros | 0 t | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 117 | Cyprus | 0 t | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 117 | Germany | 0 t | 1980 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 117 | Denmark | 0 t | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 117 | Estonia | 0 t | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 117 | Croatia | 0 t | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 117 | Latvia | 0 t | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 117 | North Macedonia | 0 t | 1998 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 117 | Namibia | 0 t | 2009 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 117 | Portugal | 0 t | 1990 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 117 | Rwanda | 0 t | 2006 | — | volatile |
| 117 | Sweden | 0 t | 1987 | — | volatile |
| 117 | Uruguay | 0 t | 2004 | — | volatile |
| 117 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0 t | 1971 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 117 | Guadeloupe | 0 t | 1992 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 32.27 million t
- Asia 20.31 million t
- Southern Asia 10.56 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 3.79 million t
- Americas 7.37 million t
- Eastern Asia 6.81 million t
- Middle Africa 239,428 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 5.66 million t
- South America 3.74 million t
- Northern America 3.40 million t
- United States of America 3.38 million t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 2.89 million t
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 31,776 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 2.39 million t
- Africa 1.94 million t
- Europe 1.79 million t
- European Union (27) 1.67 million t
- Central Asia 1.47 million t
- Western Europe 1.36 million t
- Western Africa 981,066 t
- Western Asia 913,732 t
- Oceania 857,047 t
- South-Eastern Asia 551,738 t
- Eastern Africa 478,818 t
- Southern Europe 295,305 t
- Northern Africa 219,615 t
- Central America 195,455 t
- Eastern Europe 122,519 t
- Southern Africa 22,344 t
- Northern Europe 19,500 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.