Locust beans (carobs) — 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
Locust beans (carobs) — Production is currently reported for 16 countries. The highest value is 41,329 t in Portugal; the lowest is 0 t in Jordan.
The median across all reporting countries is 2,339 t, and the mean is 9,286 t.
Over the past decade 8 countries rose and 5 fell. The largest increase was in Spain (up 1,387.0%), and the largest decrease in Malta (down 100.0%).
Locust beans (carobs) — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portugal | 41,329 t | 2017 | up 41.7% | rising |
| 2 | Italy | 28,910 t | 2017 | down 11.8% | falling |
| 3 | Türkiye | 25,000 t | 2024 | up 78.8% | rising |
| 4 | Morocco | 22,658 t | 2024 | up 2.2% | rising |
| 5 | Greece | 12,287 t | 2017 | down 4.2% | falling |
| 6 | Cyprus | 7,475 t | 2017 | up 94.7% | volatile |
| 7 | Lebanon | 4,064 t | 2024 | up 39.1% | falling |
| 8 | Algeria | 3,445 t | 2024 | down 5.8% | volatile |
| 9 | Spain | 1,233 t | 2017 | up 1,387.0% | volatile |
| 10 | Tunisia | 810.24 t | 2024 | down 5.8% | volatile |
| 11 | Croatia | 461.13 t | 2017 | up 5.4% | flat |
| 12 | Israel | 411.12 t | 2024 | up 2.8% | volatile |
| 13 | Mexico | 299.44 t | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 14 | Ukraine | 200 t | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 15 | Malta | 0 t | 1992 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 15 | Jordan | 0 t | 1996 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- European Union (27) 91,695 t
- Southern Europe 84,220 t
- World 56,887 t
- Western Asia 29,475 t
- Asia 29,475 t
- Africa 26,912 t
- Northern Africa 26,912 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 23,468 t
- Americas 299.44 t
- Central America 299.44 t
- Europe 200 t
- Eastern Europe 200 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.