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...

Countries reporting
47
Highest
11.29 million t
Indonesia
Lowest
0 t
Timor-Leste
Median
30,000 t
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
3,918

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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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.

About this data

Indicator
Palm kernels — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
65 places, 3,918 data points, 1961–2023
Last refreshed

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.