Olive oil — 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
Olive oil — Production is currently reported for 36 countries. The highest value is 854,001 t in Spain; the lowest is 7.14 t in Malta.
The median across all reporting countries is 16,900 t, and the mean is 74,166 t.
Over the past decade 26 countries rose and 9 fell. The largest increase was in Mexico (up 447.6%), and the largest decrease in Iran (Islamic Republic of) (down 51.8%).
Olive oil — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spain | 854,001 t | 2023 | down 51.6% | volatile |
| 2 | Italy | 359,540 t | 2023 | down 22.5% | flat |
| 2 | Türkiye | 234,515 t | 2023 | up 24.8% | volatile |
| 3 | Greece | 228,850 t | 2023 | down 21.5% | rising |
| 3 | Syrian Arab Republic | 89,257 t | 2023 | down 44.1% | volatile |
| 4 | Tunisia | 210,000 t | 2023 | up 11.4% | volatile |
| 4 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 6,863 t | 2023 | down 51.8% | volatile |
| 5 | Portugal | 175,529 t | 2023 | up 91.7% | volatile |
| 6 | Morocco | 120,200 t | 2023 | up 2.0% | volatile |
| 7 | Algeria | 81,300 t | 2023 | up 38.5% | volatile |
| 8 | Egypt | 40,000 t | 2023 | up 263.6% | volatile |
| 9 | Palestine | 36,000 t | 2022 | up 56.9% | rising |
| 10 | Argentina | 31,000 t | 2023 | up 45.5% | volatile |
| 11 | Albania | 28,500 t | 2023 | up 171.4% | volatile |
| 12 | Jordan | 25,028 t | 2023 | up 31.2% | volatile |
| 13 | Australia and New Zealand | 23,500 t | 2023 | up 132.7% | volatile |
| 13 | Australia | 23,500 t | 2023 | up 132.7% | volatile |
| 15 | Chile | 23,200 t | 2023 | up 82.4% | volatile |
| 16 | Lebanon | 17,300 t | 2023 | up 16.9% | volatile |
| 17 | Israel | 16,500 t | 2023 | up 20.4% | volatile |
| 18 | Libya | 16,000 t | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 19 | Cyprus | 5,700 t | 2023 | up 198.3% | volatile |
| 20 | Yugoslav SFR | 5,439 t | 1991 | down 6.2% | volatile |
| 21 | Croatia | 4,500 t | 2023 | up 381.3% | volatile |
| 22 | France | 3,700 t | 2023 | down 22.9% | volatile |
| 23 | Uruguay | 2,047 t | 2023 | up 295.6% | volatile |
| 24 | North Macedonia | 1,790 t | 2023 | up 17.0% | volatile |
| 25 | El Salvador | 1,588 t | 2023 | up 11.7% | volatile |
| 26 | Mexico | 1,314 t | 2023 | up 447.6% | volatile |
| 27 | Azerbaijan | 1,165 t | 2023 | up 30.6% | volatile |
| 28 | Afghanistan | 1,064 t | 2023 | up 94.9% | volatile |
| 29 | Slovenia | 600 t | 2023 | up 81.8% | volatile |
| 30 | Peru | 279 t | 2023 | down 35.7% | volatile |
| 31 | Serbia and Montenegro | 158 t | 2005 | up 31.7% | volatile |
| 32 | Montenegro | 25.09 t | 2023 | up 54.2% | volatile |
| 33 | Malta | 7.14 t | 2023 | down 20.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 2.63 million t
- Asia 410,392 t
- Europe 1.66 million t
- Southern Europe 1.65 million t
- European Union (27) 1.63 million t
- Africa 467,500 t
- Northern Africa 467,500 t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 1,064 t
- Western Asia 402,465 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 398,159 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 90,321 t
- Americas 71,428 t
- South America 56,526 t
- Oceania 23,500 t
- Northern America 12,000 t
- United States of America 12,000 t
- Southern Asia 7,927 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 4,019 t
- Western Europe 3,700 t
- Central America 2,902 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.