Oil palm fruit — 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
Oil palm fruit — Production is currently reported for 47 countries. The highest value is 243.00 million t in Indonesia; the lowest is 1,200 t in Suriname.
The median across all reporting countries is 542,670 t, and the mean is 9.01 million t.
Over the past decade 41 countries rose and 6 fell. The largest increase was in Panama (up 383.2%), and the largest decrease in Ecuador (down 23.5%).
Oil palm fruit — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesia | 243.00 million t | 2024 | up 64.2% | volatile |
| 2 | Malaysia | 100.16 million t | 2024 | up 5.0% | volatile |
| 3 | Thailand | 18.61 million t | 2024 | up 49.2% | volatile |
| 4 | Nigeria | 11.52 million t | 2024 | up 40.5% | rising |
| 5 | Colombia | 7.82 million t | 2024 | up 41.4% | volatile |
| 5 | Melanesia | 3.73 million t | 2024 | up 46.1% | volatile |
| 6 | Guatemala | 4.18 million t | 2024 | up 178.3% | volatile |
| 6 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1.95 million t | 2024 | up 8.5% | rising |
| 7 | Papua New Guinea | 3.51 million t | 2024 | up 52.7% | volatile |
| 7 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 542,670 t | 2024 | up 33.3% | volatile |
| 8 | Brazil | 3.22 million t | 2024 | up 131.2% | volatile |
| 8 | United Republic of Tanzania | 78,693 t | 2024 | up 8.3% | rising |
| 9 | Ghana | 3.21 million t | 2024 | up 31.4% | volatile |
| 10 | Cameroon | 2.95 million t | 2024 | up 40.4% | volatile |
| 11 | Ecuador | 2.65 million t | 2024 | down 23.5% | volatile |
| 11 | Côte d'Ivoire | 2.30 million t | 2024 | up 33.4% | volatile |
| 12 | Honduras | 1.91 million t | 2024 | up 2.2% | volatile |
| 13 | Peru | 1.47 million t | 2024 | up 137.9% | volatile |
| 13 | Caribbean | 344,922 t | 2024 | up 31.1% | rising |
| 14 | Mexico | 1.46 million t | 2024 | up 115.5% | volatile |
| 15 | Costa Rica | 1.23 million t | 2024 | up 38.6% | volatile |
| 16 | Guinea | 891,909 t | 2024 | up 6.2% | rising |
| 17 | Benin | 755,057 t | 2024 | up 28.9% | rising |
| 18 | China | 667,212 t | 2024 | down 1.3% | rising |
| 18 | China, mainland | 667,212 t | 2024 | down 1.3% | rising |
| 20 | Gabon | 607,941 t | 2024 | up 266.1% | volatile |
| 21 | Philippines | 521,801 t | 2024 | up 19.3% | volatile |
| 22 | Nicaragua | 460,411 t | 2023 | up 108.3% | volatile |
| 23 | Cambodia | 436,879 t | 2024 | up 173.0% | volatile |
| 24 | Sierra Leone | 401,642 t | 2024 | up 84.2% | rising |
| 25 | Dominican Republic | 344,922 t | 2024 | up 31.1% | rising |
| 26 | Angola | 282,224 t | 2024 | up 0.9% | rising |
| 27 | Panama | 260,839 t | 2024 | up 383.2% | volatile |
| 28 | Solomon Islands | 217,321 t | 2024 | down 14.5% | volatile |
| 29 | Liberia | 191,033 t | 2024 | up 7.9% | rising |
| 30 | Congo | 155,084 t | 2024 | up 7.3% | rising |
| 31 | Paraguay | 145,341 t | 2024 | down 4.4% | rising |
| 32 | Togo | 143,130 t | 2024 | up 24.2% | falling |
| 33 | Senegal | 129,035 t | 2024 | up 6.9% | rising |
| 34 | Burundi | 88,425 t | 2024 | up 3.1% | volatile |
| 35 | Guinea-Bissau | 80,760 t | 2024 | up 0.3% | falling |
| 36 | Equatorial Guinea | 40,363 t | 2024 | up 11.9% | rising |
| 37 | Gambia | 35,076 t | 2024 | up 0.0% | rising |
| 38 | Sao Tome and Principe | 27,394 t | 2024 | up 63.0% | volatile |
| 39 | Madagascar | 20,991 t | 2024 | up 0.3% | volatile |
| 40 | Central African Republic | 6,136 t | 2024 | up 5.4% | volatile |
| 41 | Suriname | 1,200 t | 2024 | down 3.3% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 418.70 million t
- Asia 363.40 million t
- South-Eastern Asia 362.73 million t
- Middle Africa 6.02 million t
- Africa 25.86 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 5.74 million t
- Americas 25.71 million t
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 4.18 million t
- Western Africa 19.65 million t
- South America 15.86 million t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 12.91 million t
- Central America 9.51 million t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 8.38 million t
- Oceania 3.73 million t
- Eastern Asia 667,212 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 239,902 t
- Eastern Africa 188,109 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.