Groundnuts, excluding shelled — 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...

Countries reporting
125
Highest
19.65 million t
China
Lowest
0 t
Cabo Verde
Median
13,500 t
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
9,000

What the numbers show

Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Production is currently reported for 125 countries. The highest value is 19.65 million t in China; the lowest is 0 t in Cabo Verde.

The median across all reporting countries is 13,500 t, and the mean is 600,360 t.

Over the past decade 61 countries rose and 63 fell. The largest increase was in Spain (up 781.3%), and the largest decrease in Jordan (down 100.0%).

Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China 19.65 million t 2024 up 18.7% volatile
2 China, mainland 19.61 million t 2024 up 19.0% volatile
3 India 11.95 million t 2024 up 57.5% rising
4 Nigeria 4.30 million t 2024 up 26.5% volatile
5 Myanmar 1.72 million t 2024 up 14.7% volatile
6 Sudan 1.68 million t 2024 down 10.0% rising
7 Senegal 1.68 million t 2024 up 151.3% rising
8 Argentina 1.48 million t 2024 up 27.2% volatile
9 Sudan (former) 1.19 million t 2011 up 19.7% rising
10 Guinea 1.00 million t 2024 up 137.1% volatile
11 Brazil 806,064 t 2024 up 100.2% volatile
12 United Republic of Tanzania 760,000 t 2024 down 53.5% volatile
13 Chad 692,960 t 2024 down 12.4% volatile
14 Niger 676,651 t 2024 up 67.8% volatile
15 Ghana 625,000 t 2024 up 46.6% volatile
16 Burkina Faso 611,271 t 2024 up 82.3% volatile
17 Indonesia 603,000 t 2024 down 46.2% rising
18 Cameroon 540,000 t 2024 down 6.7% volatile
19 Democratic Republic of the Congo 508,245 t 2024 up 20.6% rising
20 Mali 497,436 t 2024 down 2.3% volatile
21 Viet Nam 397,250 t 2024 down 12.4% volatile
22 Malawi 350,000 t 2024 down 12.0% volatile
23 Côte d'Ivoire 296,660 t 2024 up 152.1% volatile
24 Egypt 273,745 t 2024 up 49.2% volatile
25 Angola 248,901 t 2024 down 1.4% volatile
26 Türkiye 246,796 t 2024 up 99.7% volatile
27 Mozambique 242,449 t 2024 up 73.0% rising
28 Benin 221,119 t 2024 up 52.8% volatile
29 Nicaragua 206,868 t 2023 up 9.4% volatile
30 South Sudan 198,420 t 2024 up 47.0% rising
31 Guinea-Bissau 153,921 t 2024 up 144.5% volatile
32 Uganda 150,000 t 2024 down 49.3% rising
33 Pakistan 129,704 t 2024 up 49.7% rising
34 Ethiopia 122,000 t 2024 up 17.6% volatile
35 Sierra Leone 101,389 t 2024 up 17.9% volatile
36 Zambia 87,655 t 2024 down 39.0% volatile
37 Bangladesh 75,364 t 2024 up 33.5% rising
38 Mexico 70,228 t 2024 down 27.1% rising
39 Madagascar 58,610 t 2024 down 0.1% rising
40 Ethiopia PDR 54,000 t 1992 up 63.6% rising
41 Gambia 52,642 t 2024 down 34.7% falling
42 Togo 46,000 t 2024 up 13.1% rising
43 China, Taiwan Province of 38,000 t 2024 down 44.5% falling
44 Zimbabwe 36,977 t 2024 down 34.7% falling
45 Gabon 32,475 t 2024 up 20.3% volatile
46 Philippines 30,954 t 2024 up 6.0% rising
47 Lao People's Democratic Republic 30,910 t 2024 down 47.8% volatile
48 Sri Lanka 28,962 t 2024 up 14.1% volatile
49 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 26,526 t 2024 up 27.6% rising
50 Congo 26,226 t 2024 down 1.4% rising
51 Thailand 25,033 t 2024 down 36.9% falling
52 Caribbean 25,026 t 2024 down 45.2% falling
53 Morocco 24,498 t 2024 down 36.2% volatile
54 Syrian Arab Republic 23,266 t 2024 up 36.3% rising
55 Algeria 15,800 t 2024 up 356.8% volatile
56 Australia 15,114 t 2024 down 12.4% falling
56 Australia and New Zealand 15,114 t 2024 down 12.4% falling
58 Japan 14,800 t 2024 down 8.1% volatile
59 Rwanda 14,394 t 2024 up 41.4% rising
60 Paraguay 14,340 t 2024 down 42.6% rising
61 Tajikistan 13,835 t 2024 up 132.1% volatile
62 Kenya 13,695 t 2024 down 75.6% volatile
63 Israel 13,500 t 2024 down 12.5% rising
64 Haiti 13,156 t 2024 down 64.4% volatile
65 Burundi 12,758 t 2024 up 37.2% rising
66 Libya 12,701 t 2024 down 25.3% rising
67 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 12,328 t 2024 up 91.9% volatile
68 Cambodia 12,000 t 2024 down 56.8% volatile
69 Uzbekistan 11,357 t 2024 up 77.4% volatile
70 Lebanon 10,258 t 2024 down 2.0% rising
71 Republic of Korea 10,000 t 2024 down 19.4% volatile
72 Guatemala 9,902 t 2024 down 6.3% volatile
73 Dominican Republic 9,089 t 2024 up 71.3% volatile
74 Somalia 8,502 t 2024 up 5.7% volatile
75 Liberia 6,759 t 2024 down 0.5% rising
76 Iraq 6,188 t 2024 up 12.3% volatile
77 Comoros 4,927 t 2024 up 29.2% volatile
78 Peru 4,884 t 2024 down 21.8% volatile
79 Greece 4,567 t 2017 up 201.3% volatile
80 USSR 4,300 t 1991 up 152.9% volatile
81 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 4,160 t 2024 up 29.6% volatile
82 Ecuador 3,930 t 2024 down 60.8% falling
83 Melanesia 3,792 t 2024 down 13.1% rising
84 Timor-Leste 3,351 t 2024 down 20.7% volatile
85 Eritrea 2,290 t 2024 up 3.8% rising
86 Jamaica 2,177 t 2024 down 11.7% rising
87 Eswatini 2,157 t 2024 down 19.9% rising
88 Saudi Arabia 1,931 t 2024 down 6.3% volatile
89 Vanuatu 1,882 t 2024 down 27.3% rising
90 Uruguay 1,855 t 2024 up 9.1% volatile
91 Colombia 1,760 t 2024 up 0.2% volatile
92 Papua New Guinea 1,549 t 2024 up 8.4% falling
93 Yemen 1,451 t 2024 down 11.4% falling
94 Tonga 1,212 t 2024 down 13.8% flat
94 Polynesia 1,212 t 2024 down 13.8% flat
96 Kyrgyzstan 862 t 2024 up 676.6% volatile
97 Mauritania 848.82 t 2024 down 8.7% volatile
98 Bulgaria 751 t 2017 up 8.5% volatile
99 Spain 661 t 2017 up 781.3% volatile
100 Namibia 637.81 t 2024 up 82.2% volatile
101 Yugoslav SFR 524 t 1991 up 31.0% volatile
102 Botswana 500.12 t 2024 down 9.6% volatile
103 Cuba 483.46 t 2024 down 28.7% volatile
104 Fiji 361.26 t 2024 up 4.3% volatile
105 Cyprus 350 t 2017 down 61.5% volatile
106 Mauritius 310.5 t 2024 down 49.8% volatile
107 Belize 263 t 2024 up 141.3% rising
108 Guyana 250.02 t 2024 down 24.2% volatile
109 Costa Rica 227.74 t 2024 up 4.3% volatile
110 Georgia 226.91 t 2024 up 6.2% volatile
111 Malaysia 135.07 t 2024 down 91.4% volatile
112 Bhutan 130.69 t 2024 down 12.3% falling
113 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 92 t 2024 down 61.2% rising
114 Honduras 81.79 t 2024 down 2.7% volatile
115 Italy 65 t 1995 down 91.9% volatile
116 Portugal 30 t 1997 down 55.9% volatile
117 Saint Kitts and Nevis 20.62 t 2024 down 17.5% volatile
118 Kazakhstan 16.07 t 2024 up 100.9% volatile
119 Suriname 9.17 t 2024 down 70.4% volatile
120 Barbados 8.02 t 2024 down 49.2% volatile
121 Hungary 4 t 2017 up 33.3% volatile
122 Palestine 2.46 t 2022 down 87.1% volatile
123 Brunei Darussalam 0.41 t 2024 volatile
124 Jordan 0 t 2014 down 100.0% volatile
124 Cabo Verde 0 t 2019 down 100.0% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
156 places, 9,000 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.