Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — 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
Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — Production is currently reported for 150 countries. The highest value is 24.28 million t in China; the lowest is 20.38 t in Guadeloupe.
The median across all reporting countries is 116,296 t, and the mean is 883,884 t.
Over the past decade 102 countries rose and 48 fell. The largest increase was in Guyana (up 1,251.9%), and the largest decrease in Estonia (down 91.4%).
Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 24.28 million t | 2024 | up 7.5% | volatile |
| 2 | India | 24.27 million t | 2024 | up 25.1% | volatile |
| 3 | China, mainland | 24.22 million t | 2024 | up 7.5% | volatile |
| 4 | Egypt | 3.44 million t | 2024 | up 37.3% | volatile |
| 5 | Bangladesh | 2.92 million t | 2024 | up 110.3% | volatile |
| 6 | Türkiye | 2.63 million t | 2024 | up 47.0% | rising |
| 7 | Niger | 2.37 million t | 2024 | up 203.0% | volatile |
| 8 | Pakistan | 2.30 million t | 2024 | up 32.4% | volatile |
| 9 | USSR | 2.24 million t | 1991 | up 18.0% | rising |
| 10 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 2.16 million t | 2024 | up 4.7% | volatile |
| 11 | Indonesia | 2.09 million t | 2024 | up 69.0% | volatile |
| 12 | Algeria | 1.83 million t | 2024 | up 36.5% | volatile |
| 13 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 1.80 million t | 2024 | up 30.8% | volatile |
| 14 | Brazil | 1.68 million t | 2024 | up 2.0% | volatile |
| 15 | Nigeria | 1.67 million t | 2024 | up 42.0% | rising |
| 16 | Mexico | 1.67 million t | 2024 | up 22.3% | volatile |
| 17 | Russian Federation | 1.67 million t | 2024 | down 16.4% | rising |
| 18 | Sudan | 1.63 million t | 2024 | up 14.4% | rising |
| 19 | Uzbekistan | 1.41 million t | 2024 | up 31.6% | volatile |
| 20 | Spain | 1.39 million t | 2024 | up 1.9% | rising |
| 21 | Republic of Korea | 1.18 million t | 2024 | down 26.1% | volatile |
| 22 | Sudan (former) | 1.12 million t | 2011 | up 300.0% | volatile |
| 23 | Japan | 1.09 million t | 2024 | down 6.4% | rising |
| 24 | Myanmar | 1.06 million t | 2024 | down 15.2% | volatile |
| 25 | Morocco | 912,469 t | 2024 | up 12.1% | volatile |
| 26 | Ukraine | 849,400 t | 2024 | down 23.4% | rising |
| 27 | Germany | 848,440 t | 2024 | up 69.5% | volatile |
| 28 | Guinea | 779,443 t | 2024 | up 61.4% | rising |
| 29 | France | 778,580 t | 2024 | up 106.7% | volatile |
| 30 | Kazakhstan | 756,744 t | 2024 | up 24.4% | volatile |
| 31 | Tajikistan | 725,904 t | 2024 | up 72.5% | volatile |
| 32 | Colombia | 724,433 t | 2024 | up 54.7% | volatile |
| 32 | Réunion | 510 t | 2006 | down 88.7% | volatile |
| 33 | Argentina | 682,424 t | 2024 | up 1.3% | rising |
| 34 | Poland | 676,800 t | 2024 | up 4.0% | rising |
| 35 | Afghanistan | 614,771 t | 2024 | up 210.8% | falling |
| 36 | Peru | 592,516 t | 2024 | down 21.9% | volatile |
| 37 | Chile | 431,785 t | 2024 | up 33.4% | rising |
| 38 | Senegal | 410,712 t | 2024 | up 67.6% | volatile |
| 39 | Italy | 401,990 t | 2024 | down 4.0% | falling |
| 40 | Cameroon | 376,222 t | 2024 | up 26.6% | volatile |
| 41 | Viet Nam | 367,051 t | 2024 | up 9.0% | rising |
| 42 | Uganda | 330,575 t | 2024 | up 6.8% | volatile |
| 43 | Azerbaijan | 327,529 t | 2024 | up 93.7% | volatile |
| 44 | Malawi | 311,482 t | 2024 | up 86.8% | volatile |
| 45 | Zimbabwe | 309,008 t | 2024 | up 102.6% | volatile |
| 46 | Ethiopia | 299,856 t | 2024 | down 11.2% | volatile |
| 47 | Canada | 298,564 t | 2024 | up 18.0% | rising |
| 48 | Saudi Arabia | 295,699 t | 2024 | up 357.1% | volatile |
| 49 | Yugoslav SFR | 278,038 t | 1991 | down 17.5% | rising |
| 50 | Australia | 272,396 t | 2024 | up 6.4% | rising |
| 50 | Australia and New Zealand | 272,396 t | 2024 | up 6.4% | rising |
| 52 | Mozambique | 272,092 t | 2024 | up 172.1% | volatile |
| 53 | Philippines | 264,323 t | 2024 | up 29.8% | volatile |
| 54 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 256,192 t | 2024 | down 31.5% | rising |
| 55 | Belarus | 242,441 t | 2024 | up 14.4% | rising |
| 56 | Yemen | 233,100 t | 2024 | up 9.5% | volatile |
| 57 | Belgium | 232,580 t | 2024 | up 127.4% | volatile |
| 58 | United Republic of Tanzania | 218,982 t | 2024 | up 33.4% | volatile |
| 59 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 214,834 t | 2024 | up 6.1% | volatile |
| 60 | Kyrgyzstan | 212,663 t | 2024 | up 36.2% | rising |
| 61 | Guatemala | 192,857 t | 2024 | up 43.7% | volatile |
| 62 | Tunisia | 190,824 t | 2024 | up 7.2% | volatile |
| 63 | Libya | 187,498 t | 2024 | up 1.8% | volatile |
| 64 | Kenya | 186,851 t | 2024 | up 66.1% | volatile |
| 65 | Austria | 175,100 t | 2024 | down 15.0% | volatile |
| 66 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 156,280 t | 2024 | up 103.8% | volatile |
| 68 | Ghana | 147,756 t | 2024 | up 2.6% | volatile |
| 69 | Czechoslovakia | 136,434 t | 1992 | down 1.6% | rising |
| 70 | Jordan | 133,239 t | 2024 | up 261.2% | volatile |
| 71 | Serbia and Montenegro | 133,141 t | 2005 | down 4.9% | flat |
| 72 | Lebanon | 132,900 t | 2024 | up 46.9% | volatile |
| 73 | Greece | 131,400 t | 2024 | down 16.7% | rising |
| 74 | Romania | 127,530 t | 2024 | down 67.0% | rising |
| 75 | Syrian Arab Republic | 122,585 t | 2024 | up 61.4% | rising |
| 76 | Dominican Republic | 118,257 t | 2024 | up 94.8% | volatile |
| 77 | Albania | 114,336 t | 2024 | up 21.2% | rising |
| 78 | Turkmenistan | 89,340 t | 2024 | down 1.4% | rising |
| 79 | Sweden | 86,840 t | 2024 | up 62.7% | volatile |
| 80 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 86,809 t | 2024 | up 0.8% | rising |
| 81 | Mali | 84,435 t | 2024 | up 16.2% | volatile |
| 82 | Hungary | 72,960 t | 2024 | up 18.0% | falling |
| 83 | North Macedonia | 69,084 t | 2024 | up 15.2% | rising |
| 84 | Portugal | 65,870 t | 2024 | down 47.7% | rising |
| 85 | Israel | 65,397 t | 2024 | down 32.3% | rising |
| 86 | China, Taiwan Province of | 62,839 t | 2024 | down 2.3% | rising |
| 87 | Denmark | 61,000 t | 2024 | up 17.5% | rising |
| 88 | Republic of Moldova | 60,542 t | 2024 | up 3.4% | falling |
| 89 | Benin | 60,170 t | 2024 | up 40.5% | volatile |
| 90 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 56,204 t | 2024 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 91 | Sri Lanka | 53,339 t | 2024 | down 67.5% | rising |
| 92 | Czechia | 48,750 t | 2024 | up 27.5% | falling |
| 93 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 46,048 t | 2024 | up 38.1% | rising |
| 94 | Slovakia | 42,560 t | 2024 | up 75.5% | falling |
| 95 | Ethiopia PDR | 42,500 t | 1992 | up 11.8% | rising |
| 96 | Zambia | 41,224 t | 2024 | up 3.7% | rising |
| 97 | Switzerland | 40,090 t | 2024 | up 1.3% | rising |
| 98 | Armenia | 39,211 t | 2024 | down 21.4% | rising |
| 99 | Costa Rica | 36,590 t | 2024 | down 4.6% | volatile |
| 100 | Thailand | 36,307 t | 2024 | down 3.8% | volatile |
| 101 | Bulgaria | 35,820 t | 2024 | up 168.8% | volatile |
| 102 | Serbia | 31,964 t | 2024 | down 25.2% | volatile |
| 103 | Uruguay | 31,924 t | 2024 | up 7.1% | rising |
| 104 | Paraguay | 31,790 t | 2024 | up 0.9% | rising |
| 105 | Rwanda | 30,670 t | 2024 | up 112.1% | volatile |
| 106 | Finland | 29,720 t | 2024 | up 13.0% | volatile |
| 107 | Iraq | 29,523 t | 2024 | down 60.7% | volatile |
| 108 | Palestine | 29,283 t | 2022 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 109 | Panama | 28,704 t | 2024 | up 86.6% | volatile |
| 110 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 27,871 t | 1999 | up 48.2% | falling |
| 111 | Namibia | 26,766 t | 2024 | up 7.0% | rising |
| 112 | Nicaragua | 26,360 t | 2023 | up 161.8% | volatile |
| 113 | Lithuania | 26,340 t | 2024 | down 12.6% | rising |
| 114 | Mongolia | 24,099 t | 2024 | up 155.4% | volatile |
| 115 | Ecuador | 23,734 t | 2024 | up 24.2% | volatile |
| 116 | Chad | 22,392 t | 2024 | down 4.8% | rising |
| 117 | Oman | 20,303 t | 2024 | up 90.1% | rising |
| 118 | Cuba | 19,276 t | 2024 | down 82.9% | volatile |
| 119 | Guyana | 15,817 t | 2024 | up 1,251.9% | volatile |
| 120 | Honduras | 15,094 t | 2024 | down 8.5% | volatile |
| 121 | Croatia | 14,880 t | 2024 | down 47.7% | falling |
| 122 | Mauritius | 13,270 t | 2024 | up 124.5% | volatile |
| 123 | Madagascar | 10,901 t | 2024 | up 8.6% | rising |
| 124 | Slovenia | 10,650 t | 2024 | up 40.8% | rising |
| 125 | Haiti | 8,760 t | 2024 | up 1.5% | volatile |
| 126 | Georgia | 8,600 t | 2024 | down 47.9% | volatile |
| 127 | Ireland | 8,260 t | 2024 | up 62.0% | falling |
| 128 | Botswana | 7,271 t | 2024 | up 59.1% | volatile |
| 129 | Malta | 6,130 t | 2024 | down 20.0% | rising |
| 130 | Latvia | 5,800 t | 2024 | down 66.6% | falling |
| 131 | Somalia | 5,673 t | 2024 | down 3.1% | falling |
| 132 | Cabo Verde | 4,947 t | 2024 | up 2.2% | volatile |
| 133 | Jamaica | 4,672 t | 2024 | up 576.1% | volatile |
| 134 | Cyprus | 3,990 t | 2024 | down 44.9% | rising |
| 135 | Montenegro | 2,887 t | 2024 | up 179.2% | volatile |
| 136 | Qatar | 2,418 t | 2024 | down 12.0% | volatile |
| 137 | Kuwait | 2,076 t | 2024 | down 69.1% | volatile |
| 138 | El Salvador | 1,495 t | 2024 | down 27.8% | volatile |
| 139 | Bahrain | 1,150 t | 2024 | up 148.6% | volatile |
| 140 | Luxembourg | 1,100 t | 2024 | up 816.7% | volatile |
| 141 | Bahamas | 817.44 t | 2024 | down 9.0% | falling |
| 142 | Barbados | 695.54 t | 2024 | up 120.8% | volatile |
| 143 | Congo | 629.45 t | 2024 | up 7.0% | rising |
| 144 | Sao Tome and Principe | 359.82 t | 2024 | down 2.2% | flat |
| 145 | Bhutan | 195.66 t | 2024 | down 74.2% | volatile |
| 146 | Estonia | 130 t | 2024 | down 91.4% | volatile |
| 147 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 42.53 t | 2024 | down 51.7% | volatile |
| 148 | Maldives | 38.76 t | 2024 | down 4.1% | volatile |
| 149 | Antigua and Barbuda | 37.51 t | 2024 | down 53.5% | volatile |
| 150 | Guadeloupe | 20.38 t | 2006 | down 7.1% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 108.26 million t
- Asia 70.05 million t
- Southern Asia 32.32 million t
- Eastern Asia 26.66 million t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 20.03 million t
- Africa 16.96 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 11.77 million t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 11.21 million t
- Americas 10.51 million t
- Europe 10.46 million t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 8.32 million t
- Northern Africa 8.19 million 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.