Margarine and shortening — 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
97
Highest
1.10 million t
USSR
Lowest
0 t
China, Hong Kong SAR
Median
23,069 t
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
7,206

What the numbers show

Margarine and shortening — Production is currently reported for 97 countries. The highest value is 1.10 million t in USSR; the lowest is 0 t in China, Hong Kong SAR.

The median across all reporting countries is 23,069 t, and the mean is 98,365 t.

Over the past decade 35 countries rose and 54 fell. The largest increase was in Mexico (up 453.7%), and the largest decrease in St. Kitts and Nevis (down 82.2%).

Margarine and shortening — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 USSR 1.10 million t 1991 down 19.2% rising
2 Brazil 904,975 t 2023 up 70.3% volatile
3 Pakistan 855,000 t 2023 down 15.3% volatile
4 Mexico 538,699 t 2023 up 453.7% volatile
5 Russian Federation 462,550 t 2023 up 1.5% rising
6 India 445,000 t 2023 down 45.4% rising
7 Kenya 371,024 t 2023 up 36.4% volatile
8 Belgium 336,802 t 2023 down 9.7% rising
9 Germany 324,000 t 2023 down 39.4% falling
10 Japan 313,436 t 2023 down 19.9% rising
11 Poland, Republic of 313,000 t 2023 down 25.6% rising
12 Belgium-Luxembourg 298,000 t 1999 up 60.4% rising
13 Indonesia 261,290 t 2023 up 28.5% volatile
14 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 250,000 t 2023 down 24.2% falling
15 Sweden 156,432 t 2023 up 39.7% flat
16 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 156,184 t 2023 down 32.4% falling
17 Spain 147,966 t 2023 up 74.9% rising
18 Malaysia 143,011 t 2023 up 332.6% volatile
19 Italy 118,396 t 2023 down 3.0% rising
20 Australia and New Zealand 103,080 t 2023 down 1.6% rising
21 Canada 101,000 t 2023 down 9.0% rising
22 Ukraine 100,368 t 2023 down 64.6% rising
23 Peru 98,237 t 2023 up 2.3% volatile
24 Australia 92,404 t 2023 down 5.2% rising
25 Austria 88,059 t 2023 up 51.5% rising
26 Hungary 84,512 t 2023 up 18.6% volatile
27 Tunisia 82,036 t 2023 down 27.9% volatile
28 Czechoslovakia 82,000 t 1992 down 4.6% rising
29 South Africa 78,312 t 2023 up 161.0% volatile
30 Colombia 62,577 t 2023 down 48.5% volatile
31 Romania 62,000 t 2023 down 3.7% volatile
32 Kazakhstan, Republic of 61,314 t 2023 up 8.2% volatile
33 Yugoslav SFR 58,811 t 1991 down 4.7% rising
34 Norway 54,300 t 2023 down 6.1% rising
35 France 52,800 t 2023 up 25.2% falling
36 Denmark 50,000 t 2023 down 33.3% rising
37 Uzbekistan 47,176 t 2023 up 150.9% volatile
38 Czech Republic 47,000 t 2023 down 6.0% falling
39 Azerbaijan, Republic of 46,985 t 2023 up 91.7% volatile
40 Serbia and Montenegro 44,000 t 2005 up 19.8% rising
41 Greece 39,500 t 2023 down 10.2% volatile
42 Portugal 39,000 t 2023 down 18.8% rising
43 Zimbabwe 36,725 t 2023 up 180.4% volatile
44 Serbia, Republic of 30,763 t 2023 down 18.0% falling
45 Thailand 26,661 t 2023 up 55.5% volatile
46 Egypt, Arab Republic of 25,271 t 2023 up 1.5% volatile
47 Israel 25,183 t 2023 down 11.6% rising
48 Finland 23,118 t 2023 down 39.2% rising
49 Guatemala 23,069 t 2023 up 85.9% volatile
50 Switzerland 21,500 t 2023 down 2.3% rising
51 Ecuador 20,863 t 2023 up 39.1% falling
52 Chile 18,228 t 2023 down 45.8% volatile
53 Honduras 17,940 t 2023 up 99.1% volatile
54 Ireland 14,900 t 2023 down 6.9% rising
55 Slovak Republic 13,700 t 2023 down 13.8% falling
56 Argentina 12,038 t 2023 down 26.7% volatile
57 Lithuania, Republic of 11,000 t 2023 down 14.3% falling
58 El Salvador 10,932 t 2023 down 6.6% volatile
59 New Zealand 10,676 t 2023 up 47.3% volatile
60 Jamaica 10,555 t 2023 up 62.4% rising
61 Croatia, Republic of 10,500 t 2023 down 30.0% falling
62 Belarus, Republic of 9,601 t 2023 down 34.1% falling
63 Latvia, Republic of 8,116 t 2023 down 27.9% falling
64 Singapore 8,000 t 2023 up 111.4% volatile
65 Sri Lanka 7,701 t 2023 down 19.7% volatile
66 Nepal 7,502 t 2023 up 150.1% volatile
67 Algeria 7,365 t 2023 down 29.5% volatile
68 Panama 6,100 t 2023 down 46.5% volatile
69 Slovenia, Republic of 5,500 t 2023 up 19.6% rising
70 Bulgaria 5,364 t 2023 down 59.4% volatile
71 Trinidad and Tobago 3,925 t 2023 up 9.9% rising
72 Barbados 3,844 t 2023 down 12.1% rising
73 Ghana 3,578 t 2023 down 18.7% volatile
74 Oman 3,320 t 2023 down 27.8% rising
75 Costa Rica 3,216 t 2023 down 5.8% rising
76 Mauritius 3,169 t 2023 down 16.0% falling
77 China, People's Republic of 3,074 t 2023 up 17.4% volatile
77 China, Taiwan Province of 3,074 t 2023 up 17.4% volatile
79 North Macedonia, Republic of 2,900 t 2023 up 38.1% falling
80 Kyrgyz Republic 2,349 t 2022 volatile
81 Iraq 2,310 t 2023 down 74.6% volatile
82 Guyana 2,147 t 2023 down 7.4% volatile
83 Turkmenistan 1,752 t 2023 rising
84 Republic of Korea 1,041 t 2023 down 10.0% volatile
85 Morocco 456.73 t 2023 down 76.4% volatile
86 Mozambique, Republic of 300.2 t 2023 down 29.0% volatile
87 Suriname 246.4 t 2023 down 58.9% rising
88 Bosnia and Herzegovina 158.7 t 2023 up 14.2% volatile
89 St. Lucia 154.1 t 2023 down 58.9% volatile
90 Estonia, Republic of 100 t 1996 volatile
91 Armenia, Republic of 84 t 2023 up 342.1% volatile
92 Tajikistan, Republic of 60 t 1996 volatile
93 St. Kitts and Nevis 6.93 t 2023 down 82.2% volatile
94 Albania 0 t 2009 volatile
94 Iceland 0 t 2021 flat
94 Philippines 0 t 2018 volatile
94 China, Hong Kong SAR 0 t 2018 volatile

Regions and income groups

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

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About this data

Indicator
Margarine and shortening — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
137 places, 7,206 data points, 1961–2023
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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.