Millet — 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
Millet — Production is currently reported for 93 countries. The highest value is 12.62 million t in India; the lowest is 0 t in Mexico.
The median across all reporting countries is 15,390 t, and the mean is 385,209 t.
Over the past decade 44 countries rose and 47 fell. The largest increase was in Azerbaijan (up 12,188.5%), and the largest decrease in Mexico (down 100.0%).
Millet — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 12.62 million t | 2024 | up 8.5% | rising |
| 2 | Niger | 3.84 million t | 2024 | up 15.5% | volatile |
| 3 | China | 2.78 million t | 2024 | up 18.7% | volatile |
| 4 | China, mainland | 2.78 million t | 2024 | up 18.8% | volatile |
| 5 | Mali | 1.98 million t | 2024 | up 15.7% | volatile |
| 6 | USSR | 1.61 million t | 1991 | down 5.9% | flat |
| 7 | Nigeria | 1.55 million t | 2024 | down 16.0% | volatile |
| 8 | Ethiopia | 1.12 million t | 2024 | up 32.5% | volatile |
| 9 | Senegal | 1.11 million t | 2024 | up 170.4% | rising |
| 10 | Burkina Faso | 931,109 t | 2024 | down 4.3% | rising |
| 11 | Sudan | 792,943 t | 2024 | down 36.3% | volatile |
| 12 | Sudan (former) | 634,000 t | 2011 | up 9.7% | rising |
| 13 | Chad | 618,925 t | 2024 | down 10.9% | volatile |
| 14 | Russian Federation | 325,000 t | 2024 | down 34.1% | volatile |
| 14 | United Republic of Tanzania | 325,000 t | 2024 | down 10.4% | rising |
| 16 | Nepal | 300,732 t | 2024 | down 1.1% | rising |
| 17 | Pakistan | 251,882 t | 2024 | down 14.4% | falling |
| 18 | Guinea | 220,000 t | 2024 | down 0.4% | volatile |
| 19 | Ghana | 210,000 t | 2024 | up 35.5% | rising |
| 20 | Myanmar | 170,000 t | 2024 | down 28.8% | volatile |
| 21 | Ukraine | 156,870 t | 2024 | down 11.9% | falling |
| 22 | Ethiopia PDR | 128,344 t | 1992 | down 34.9% | rising |
| 23 | Uganda | 120,000 t | 2024 | down 49.3% | falling |
| 24 | Uzbekistan | 110,163 t | 2024 | up 1,676.8% | volatile |
| 25 | Cameroon | 100,000 t | 2024 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 26 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 77,049 t | 2024 | up 4.2% | falling |
| 27 | Kenya | 65,763 t | 2024 | down 47.8% | falling |
| 28 | Kazakhstan | 64,946 t | 2024 | up 138.3% | volatile |
| 29 | Côte d'Ivoire | 60,236 t | 2024 | up 15.2% | rising |
| 30 | Malawi | 50,144 t | 2024 | up 18.8% | volatile |
| 31 | South Sudan | 45,000 t | 2024 | up 258.5% | rising |
| 31 | Yemen | 45,000 t | 2024 | down 38.9% | falling |
| 33 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 41,042 t | 2024 | down 10.9% | rising |
| 34 | France | 40,604 t | 2017 | down 8.0% | volatile |
| 35 | Gambia | 40,330 t | 2024 | down 47.5% | volatile |
| 36 | Australia | 36,832 t | 2024 | up 1.1% | rising |
| 36 | Australia and New Zealand | 36,832 t | 2024 | up 1.1% | rising |
| 38 | Guinea-Bissau | 34,000 t | 2024 | up 240.0% | volatile |
| 39 | Poland | 30,785 t | 2017 | up 163.3% | volatile |
| 40 | Benin | 30,400 t | 2024 | up 28.4% | volatile |
| 41 | Togo | 28,000 t | 2024 | up 59.6% | volatile |
| 42 | Zimbabwe | 25,047 t | 2024 | down 54.1% | volatile |
| 43 | Angola | 25,000 t | 2024 | down 41.9% | falling |
| 43 | Eritrea | 25,000 t | 2024 | up 25.0% | volatile |
| 45 | Mozambique | 17,615 t | 2024 | down 39.9% | volatile |
| 46 | Belarus | 16,661 t | 2024 | up 66.5% | rising |
| 47 | Zambia | 15,390 t | 2024 | down 49.5% | volatile |
| 48 | Congo | 13,706 t | 2024 | down 6.9% | rising |
| 49 | Saudi Arabia | 13,268 t | 2024 | up 65.4% | volatile |
| 50 | Bangladesh | 12,392 t | 2024 | up 73.6% | volatile |
| 51 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 12,274 t | 2024 | up 20.7% | volatile |
| 52 | Namibia | 12,092 t | 2024 | down 67.3% | volatile |
| 53 | Burundi | 11,000 t | 2024 | up 3.7% | rising |
| 54 | Austria | 10,608 t | 2017 | up 30.2% | volatile |
| 55 | Portugal | 10,000 t | 1972 | up 34.7% | rising |
| 56 | Azerbaijan | 9,462 t | 2024 | up 12,188.5% | volatile |
| 57 | Sri Lanka | 8,694 t | 2024 | down 2.1% | volatile |
| 58 | Sierra Leone | 7,444 t | 2024 | down 81.4% | volatile |
| 59 | Argentina | 6,630 t | 2024 | up 148.3% | volatile |
| 60 | Libya | 6,000 t | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 61 | Morocco | 5,181 t | 2024 | down 6.9% | rising |
| 62 | Bulgaria | 4,432 t | 2017 | up 76.7% | volatile |
| 63 | Türkiye | 3,774 t | 2024 | down 44.0% | volatile |
| 64 | Czechoslovakia | 3,400 t | 1992 | up 209.1% | volatile |
| 65 | Hungary | 3,230 t | 2017 | down 57.7% | rising |
| 66 | Mauritania | 3,000 t | 2024 | up 64.5% | volatile |
| 67 | Yugoslav SFR | 2,361 t | 1991 | up 18.1% | volatile |
| 68 | Rwanda | 1,997 t | 2024 | down 50.1% | volatile |
| 69 | Afghanistan | 1,646 t | 2024 | down 56.3% | falling |
| 70 | Spain | 1,540 t | 2017 | up 197.9% | volatile |
| 71 | Czechia | 1,024 t | 2017 | down 43.1% | volatile |
| 72 | Botswana | 1,000 t | 2024 | down 70.6% | volatile |
| 72 | Republic of Korea | 1,000 t | 2024 | down 36.0% | volatile |
| 74 | Viet Nam | 856 t | 2024 | down 48.5% | rising |
| 75 | Slovakia | 706 t | 2017 | down 46.7% | falling |
| 76 | Switzerland | 704 t | 2024 | up 454.3% | volatile |
| 77 | Iraq | 602 t | 2024 | down 81.5% | volatile |
| 78 | Bhutan | 579.43 t | 2024 | down 85.1% | falling |
| 79 | China, Taiwan Province of | 506.74 t | 2024 | down 1.5% | volatile |
| 80 | Slovenia | 368 t | 2017 | down 32.2% | volatile |
| 81 | Serbia and Montenegro | 300 t | 2005 | up 200.0% | volatile |
| 82 | Japan | 251.19 t | 2024 | down 5.3% | volatile |
| 83 | Syrian Arab Republic | 191 t | 2024 | down 77.0% | volatile |
| 84 | Tajikistan | 174.34 t | 2024 | up 222.9% | volatile |
| 85 | Croatia | 171 t | 2017 | down 58.3% | falling |
| 86 | Republic of Moldova | 169 t | 2024 | up 1,590.0% | volatile |
| 87 | Greece | 119.99 t | 2017 | up 7,446.5% | volatile |
| 88 | Serbia | 107.25 t | 2024 | up 7.2% | falling |
| 89 | North Macedonia | 33 t | 2024 | up 8.4% | volatile |
| 90 | Kyrgyzstan | 16 t | 2024 | down 74.6% | volatile |
| 91 | Maldives | 4.97 t | 2024 | down 2.0% | volatile |
| 92 | Jordan | 0 t | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 92 | Mexico | 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.
- World 30.85 million t
- Asia 16.49 million t
- Africa 13.50 million t
- Southern Asia 13.21 million t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 12.38 million t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 12.14 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 11.98 million t
- Western Africa 10.04 million t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 9.26 million t
- Eastern Asia 2.86 million t
- Eastern Africa 1.83 million t
- Middle Africa 808,673 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.