Palm kernels — 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
Palm kernels — Production is currently reported for 47 countries. The highest value is 11.29 million t in Indonesia; the lowest is 0 t in Timor-Leste.
The median across all reporting countries is 30,000 t, and the mean is 414,831 t.
Over the past decade 31 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Panama (up 384.5%), and the largest decrease in Togo (down 80.0%).
Palm kernels — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesia | 11.29 million t | 2023 | up 49.9% | volatile |
| 2 | Malaysia | 4.52 million t | 2023 | down 7.0% | volatile |
| 3 | Thailand | 726,000 t | 2023 | up 62.4% | volatile |
| 4 | Nigeria | 375,000 t | 2023 | up 64.5% | rising |
| 5 | Colombia | 312,806 t | 2023 | up 38.1% | volatile |
| 6 | Guatemala | 238,337 t | 2023 | up 164.8% | volatile |
| 7 | Melanesia | 202,000 t | 2023 | up 38.4% | volatile |
| 8 | Brazil | 195,000 t | 2023 | down 14.0% | falling |
| 9 | Papua New Guinea | 179,000 t | 2023 | up 34.6% | volatile |
| 10 | Honduras | 165,000 t | 2023 | up 57.1% | volatile |
| 11 | Ghana | 152,000 t | 2023 | up 46.2% | volatile |
| 12 | Côte d'Ivoire | 136,000 t | 2023 | up 44.7% | volatile |
| 13 | Mexico | 114,000 t | 2023 | up 256.2% | volatile |
| 14 | Costa Rica | 92,000 t | 2023 | up 76.4% | volatile |
| 14 | Cameroon | 92,000 t | 2023 | up 46.0% | rising |
| 16 | Ecuador | 82,000 t | 2023 | down 24.1% | volatile |
| 17 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 75,000 t | 2023 | up 6.4% | falling |
| 18 | Peru | 63,000 t | 2023 | up 23.5% | volatile |
| 19 | Guinea | 53,000 t | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 20 | Sierra Leone | 42,482 t | 2023 | up 69.9% | falling |
| 21 | Philippines | 38,000 t | 2023 | up 40.7% | volatile |
| 22 | China | 33,097 t | 2023 | down 39.8% | rising |
| 22 | China, mainland | 33,097 t | 2023 | down 39.8% | rising |
| 24 | Benin | 30,000 t | 2023 | down 31.8% | volatile |
| 25 | Angola | 27,655 t | 2023 | up 20.2% | rising |
| 26 | Cambodia | 25,000 t | 2023 | up 163.5% | rising |
| 27 | Nicaragua | 24,000 t | 2023 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 28 | Gabon | 23,500 t | 2023 | up 291.7% | volatile |
| 29 | Solomon Islands | 23,000 t | 2023 | up 76.9% | volatile |
| 30 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 21,308 t | 2023 | up 1.5% | volatile |
| 31 | Caribbean | 18,000 t | 2023 | up 50.0% | volatile |
| 31 | Dominican Republic | 18,000 t | 2023 | up 50.0% | volatile |
| 33 | Paraguay | 14,778 t | 2023 | down 4.7% | rising |
| 34 | Burundi | 8,502 t | 2023 | up 19.7% | volatile |
| 35 | Togo | 8,211 t | 2023 | down 80.0% | volatile |
| 36 | Guinea-Bissau | 7,985 t | 2023 | down 0.2% | falling |
| 37 | Senegal | 7,564 t | 2023 | up 2.2% | rising |
| 38 | Panama | 7,268 t | 2023 | up 384.5% | volatile |
| 39 | United Republic of Tanzania | 7,141 t | 2023 | down 35.1% | rising |
| 40 | Congo | 6,130 t | 2023 | up 27.7% | rising |
| 41 | Liberia | 5,000 t | 2023 | down 54.5% | falling |
| 42 | Gambia | 2,476 t | 2023 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 43 | Equatorial Guinea | 2,400 t | 2023 | down 4.0% | rising |
| 44 | Madagascar | 1,311 t | 2023 | down 2.9% | volatile |
| 45 | Sao Tome and Principe | 1,000 t | 2023 | up 17.6% | volatile |
| 46 | Suriname | 26.09 t | 2023 | down 15.8% | volatile |
| 47 | Timor-Leste | 0 t | 1992 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 19.24 million t
- Asia 16.63 million t
- South-eastern Asia 16.60 million t
- Americas 1.35 million t
- Africa 1.06 million t
- Western Africa 819,717 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 752,541 t
- South America 688,918 t
- Central America 640,605 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 372,208 t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 325,733 t
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 229,011 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.