Okra — 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
Okra — Production is currently reported for 60 countries. The highest value is 7.31 million t in India; the lowest is 0.31 t in Nauru.
The median across all reporting countries is 16,424 t, and the mean is 237,909 t.
Over the past decade 42 countries rose and 17 fell. The largest increase was in Melanesia (up 5,678.3%), and the largest decrease in Belize (down 71.4%).
Okra — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 7.31 million t | 2024 | up 15.1% | volatile |
| 2 | Nigeria | 1.81 million t | 2024 | down 11.4% | volatile |
| 3 | Dominican Republic | 836,361 t | 2024 | up 352.3% | volatile |
| 4 | Mali | 655,971 t | 2024 | up 300.4% | volatile |
| 5 | Guinea | 569,749 t | 2024 | up 17.0% | rising |
| 5 | United Republic of Tanzania | 43,910 t | 2024 | down 0.9% | flat |
| 6 | Pakistan | 306,294 t | 2024 | up 171.1% | volatile |
| 6 | Türkiye | 28,152 t | 2024 | down 15.0% | rising |
| 7 | Sudan | 303,831 t | 2024 | up 7.0% | rising |
| 7 | Syrian Arab Republic | 15,161 t | 2024 | up 2.1% | rising |
| 8 | Sudan (former) | 257,100 t | 2011 | up 16.9% | rising |
| 8 | Melanesia | 6,125 t | 2024 | up 5,678.3% | volatile |
| 9 | Caribbean | 844,954 t | 2024 | up 338.5% | volatile |
| 9 | Niger | 200,458 t | 2024 | up 515.0% | volatile |
| 9 | Micronesia | 0.31 t | 2024 | up 29.2% | rising |
| 10 | Egypt | 100,610 t | 2024 | up 82.4% | rising |
| 11 | Côte d'Ivoire | 181,276 t | 2024 | up 27.5% | rising |
| 11 | Bangladesh | 99,079 t | 2024 | up 60.5% | rising |
| 12 | Benin | 89,883 t | 2024 | up 83.8% | volatile |
| 13 | Cameroon | 75,309 t | 2024 | down 0.9% | volatile |
| 14 | Sri Lanka | 72,623 t | 2024 | up 8.4% | rising |
| 15 | Malaysia | 70,203 t | 2024 | up 55.6% | volatile |
| 16 | Ghana | 67,128 t | 2024 | up 1.2% | falling |
| 17 | Iraq | 46,969 t | 2024 | down 62.0% | volatile |
| 18 | Mexico | 35,320 t | 2024 | up 60.2% | volatile |
| 19 | Philippines | 32,504 t | 2024 | up 7.4% | rising |
| 20 | Saudi Arabia | 28,684 t | 2024 | down 3.5% | volatile |
| 21 | Yemen | 28,123 t | 2024 | up 43.1% | volatile |
| 22 | Burkina Faso | 23,859 t | 2024 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 23 | Senegal | 22,969 t | 2024 | down 24.8% | falling |
| 24 | Kenya | 22,106 t | 2024 | up 145.1% | volatile |
| 25 | Guyana | 19,152 t | 2024 | up 53.4% | volatile |
| 26 | Zimbabwe | 17,686 t | 2024 | up 24.5% | rising |
| 27 | Oman | 8,301 t | 2024 | up 50.7% | volatile |
| 28 | Albania | 8,124 t | 2024 | down 5.3% | rising |
| 29 | Jordan | 6,651 t | 2024 | up 57.5% | volatile |
| 30 | Fiji | 6,125 t | 2024 | up 5,678.3% | volatile |
| 31 | Guatemala | 6,066 t | 2024 | down 6.0% | rising |
| 32 | Jamaica | 6,034 t | 2024 | up 1.5% | rising |
| 33 | Palestine | 4,136 t | 2022 | up 38.1% | falling |
| 34 | Malawi | 2,875 t | 2024 | up 29.1% | rising |
| 35 | Kuwait | 1,656 t | 2024 | down 69.8% | volatile |
| 36 | Congo | 1,566 t | 2024 | up 0.2% | rising |
| 37 | Trinidad and Tobago | 1,385 t | 2024 | up 40.6% | rising |
| 38 | Mauritius | 1,362 t | 2024 | down 1.4% | rising |
| 39 | Qatar | 1,186 t | 2024 | up 356.0% | volatile |
| 40 | Lebanon | 1,057 t | 2024 | up 32.8% | volatile |
| 41 | United Arab Emirates | 845.59 t | 2024 | down 50.6% | volatile |
| 42 | Bahrain | 690 t | 2024 | up 25.8% | volatile |
| 43 | Cyprus | 558 t | 2017 | down 71.3% | rising |
| 44 | Barbados | 512.42 t | 2024 | up 94.1% | volatile |
| 45 | Bahamas | 506.06 t | 2024 | up 7.8% | rising |
| 46 | Brunei Darussalam | 445.89 t | 2024 | up 9.4% | rising |
| 47 | Puerto Rico | 124.07 t | 2024 | down 4.8% | flat |
| 48 | Antigua and Barbuda | 31.65 t | 2024 | — | rising |
| 49 | Djibouti | 30.34 t | 2024 | up 15.1% | rising |
| 50 | Bhutan | 25.99 t | 2024 | down 6.8% | falling |
| 51 | Gabon | 20.36 t | 2024 | down 1.7% | falling |
| 52 | Belize | 14 t | 2024 | down 71.4% | volatile |
| 53 | Nauru | 0.31 t | 2024 | up 29.2% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 13.26 million t
- Asia 8.06 million t
- Southern Asia 7.78 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 2.13 million t
- Africa 4.27 million t
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 871,607 t
- Western Africa 3.70 million t
- Middle Africa 76,895 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 3.66 million t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 2.16 million t
- Americas 915,983 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 900,876 t
- Northern Africa 404,441 t
- Western Asia 169,710 t
- South-Eastern Asia 103,153 t
- Eastern Africa 87,970 t
- Central America 41,400 t
- South America 19,152 t
- Northern America 10,477 t
- United States of America 10,477 t
- Southern Europe 8,124 t
- Europe 8,124 t
- Oceania 6,125 t
- European Union (27) 558 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.