Linseed — 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
66
Highest
1.18 million t
Russian Federation
Lowest
0 t
Italy
Median
1,632 t
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,726

What the numbers show

Linseed — Production is currently reported for 66 countries. The highest value is 1.18 million t in Russian Federation; the lowest is 0 t in Italy.

The median across all reporting countries is 1,632 t, and the mean is 52,125 t.

Over the past decade 31 countries rose and 28 fell. The largest increase was in Spain (up 5,275.0%), and the largest decrease in Denmark (down 100.0%).

Linseed — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Russian Federation 1.18 million t 2024 up 223.2% volatile
2 Kazakhstan 759,591 t 2024 up 80.9% volatile
3 China, mainland 280,000 t 2024 down 27.6% volatile
3 China 280,000 t 2024 down 27.6% volatile
5 Canada 257,974 t 2024 down 70.8% rising
6 USSR 140,000 t 1991 down 28.2% falling
7 India 112,693 t 2024 down 20.5% falling
8 Ethiopia 82,000 t 2024 down 1.4% rising
9 Ukraine 66,160 t 2024 up 41.9% volatile
10 France 39,620 t 2024 up 139.2% rising
11 Ethiopia PDR 35,000 t 1992 down 3.5% falling
12 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 31,038 t 2024 down 20.9% volatile
13 Afghanistan 27,819 t 2024 up 1,012.8% volatile
14 Argentina 24,998 t 2024 up 44.9% volatile
15 Belgium-Luxembourg 12,420 t 1999 up 52.3% falling
16 Belgium 11,000 t 2017 up 9.7% falling
17 Australia and New Zealand 9,347 t 2024 up 13.0% volatile
18 Nepal 9,136 t 2024 up 0.0% falling
19 Egypt 8,000 t 2024 up 78.4% falling
20 Australia 7,000 t 2024 up 16.7% volatile
20 Belarus 7,000 t 2024 down 3.2% falling
20 Germany 7,000 t 2017 up 16.7% volatile
23 Czechoslovakia 5,600 t 1992 down 62.8% falling
24 Uruguay 5,426 t 2024 down 3.1% volatile
25 Hungary 4,360 t 2024 up 707.4% volatile
26 Sweden 4,000 t 2024 down 63.6% volatile
27 Brazil 3,795 t 2024 down 21.6% volatile
28 Bangladesh 3,420 t 2024 down 62.0% volatile
29 Tunisia 3,100 t 2024 up 21.2% rising
30 Poland 2,360 t 2024 down 42.8% volatile
31 New Zealand 2,347 t 2024 up 3.5% volatile
32 Romania 1,950 t 2024 down 24.0% volatile
33 Pakistan 1,715 t 2024 down 27.5% falling
34 Bulgaria 1,550 t 2024 up 979.8% volatile
35 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 1,508 t 2018 down 30.2% volatile
36 Czechia 1,400 t 2024 down 41.4% volatile
37 Chile 1,397 t 2024 up 7.7% volatile
38 Austria 1,320 t 2024 up 27.6% volatile
39 Uzbekistan 1,000 t 2024 unchanged falling
40 Kenya 968.03 t 2024 down 0.7% rising
41 Latvia 800 t 2024 up 33.3% volatile
42 Peru 734 t 2024 down 33.8% volatile
43 Finland 700 t 2024 up 40.0% rising
44 Lithuania 640 t 2024 up 113.3% volatile
45 Spain 430 t 2024 up 5,275.0% volatile
46 Slovakia 410 t 2024 down 69.3% volatile
47 Switzerland 356 t 2024 up 1.1% rising
48 Eritrea 191.17 t 2024 up 2.4% volatile
49 Türkiye 188 t 2024 volatile
50 Armenia 174.4 t 2024 up 96.0% volatile
51 Iraq 152.27 t 2024 down 7.4% volatile
52 Greece 120 t 2024 down 20.0% volatile
53 Kyrgyzstan 92.08 t 2024 up 5.6% volatile
54 Estonia 90 t 2024 up 83.7% volatile
55 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 65.76 t 2024 up 1.2% flat
56 Ecuador 58.5 t 2024 up 3.7% volatile
57 Mexico 5.04 t 2024 up 124.0% volatile
58 Yugoslav SFR 1 t 1983 down 96.7% volatile
59 Cyprus 0 t 2017 volatile
59 Japan 0 t 1992 volatile
59 Morocco 0 t 1992 volatile
59 Denmark 0 t 2024 down 100.0% volatile
59 Malta 0 t 2024 flat
59 Portugal 0 t 2020 volatile
59 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 0 t 2014 down 100.0% volatile
59 Italy 0 t 2024 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
Linseed — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
91 places, 4,726 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.