Palm 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
Palm oil — Production is currently reported for 48 countries. The highest value is 47.08 million t in Indonesia; the lowest is 136.1 t in Suriname.
The median across all reporting countries is 101,673 t, and the mean is 1.68 million t.
Over the past decade 35 countries rose and 11 fell. The largest increase was in Panama (up 2,510.2%), and the largest decrease in Suriname (down 45.6%).
Palm oil — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesia | 47.08 million t | 2023 | up 69.5% | volatile |
| 2 | Malaysia | 18.55 million t | 2023 | down 3.5% | volatile |
| 3 | Thailand | 3.32 million t | 2023 | up 68.7% | volatile |
| 4 | Colombia | 1.84 million t | 2023 | up 77.0% | volatile |
| 5 | Nigeria | 1.46 million t | 2023 | up 65.9% | rising |
| 5 | Melanesia | 801,000 t | 2023 | up 49.2% | volatile |
| 6 | Guatemala | 933,926 t | 2023 | up 127.8% | volatile |
| 6 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 300,000 t | 2023 | up 6.4% | rising |
| 7 | Papua New Guinea | 770,000 t | 2023 | up 54.0% | volatile |
| 7 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 103,346 t | 2023 | up 880.0% | volatile |
| 8 | Honduras | 655,000 t | 2023 | up 54.1% | volatile |
| 8 | United Republic of Tanzania | 5,616 t | 2023 | down 35.1% | rising |
| 9 | Brazil | 637,353 t | 2023 | up 87.5% | volatile |
| 10 | Ecuador | 494,674 t | 2023 | down 0.1% | volatile |
| 11 | Côte d'Ivoire | 562,465 t | 2023 | up 42.1% | volatile |
| 11 | Mexico | 386,700 t | 2023 | up 402.2% | volatile |
| 12 | Cameroon | 320,000 t | 2023 | up 28.5% | volatile |
| 13 | Peru | 300,000 t | 2023 | up 145.9% | volatile |
| 13 | Ghana | 300,000 t | 2023 | up 150.0% | volatile |
| 13 | Caribbean | 54,500 t | 2023 | up 18.5% | rising |
| 15 | Costa Rica | 280,463 t | 2023 | down 6.5% | volatile |
| 16 | Nicaragua | 148,622 t | 2023 | up 395.4% | volatile |
| 17 | Gabon | 146,800 t | 2023 | up 292.5% | volatile |
| 18 | Philippines | 135,200 t | 2023 | up 27.5% | volatile |
| 19 | China, mainland | 112,877 t | 2023 | down 18.6% | rising |
| 19 | China | 112,877 t | 2023 | down 18.6% | rising |
| 21 | Cambodia | 100,000 t | 2023 | up 216.2% | rising |
| 21 | Benin | 100,000 t | 2023 | up 78.6% | volatile |
| 23 | Sierra Leone | 85,800 t | 2023 | up 43.0% | rising |
| 24 | Panama | 74,000 t | 2023 | up 2,510.2% | volatile |
| 25 | Angola | 64,000 t | 2023 | up 39.1% | rising |
| 26 | Guinea | 50,000 t | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 27 | Dominican Republic | 48,000 t | 2023 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 28 | Liberia | 45,000 t | 2023 | up 7.1% | rising |
| 29 | Solomon Islands | 31,000 t | 2023 | down 16.2% | volatile |
| 30 | Congo | 27,616 t | 2023 | up 6.4% | rising |
| 31 | Togo | 21,000 t | 2023 | up 156.1% | volatile |
| 32 | Burundi | 16,978 t | 2023 | up 7.6% | volatile |
| 33 | Senegal | 14,000 t | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 34 | Jamaica | 6,500 t | 2023 | down 7.1% | rising |
| 35 | Guinea-Bissau | 5,949 t | 2023 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 36 | Equatorial Guinea | 5,300 t | 2023 | down 3.6% | rising |
| 37 | Sao Tome and Principe | 4,870 t | 2023 | up 39.1% | volatile |
| 38 | Gambia | 4,162 t | 2023 | up 40.7% | rising |
| 39 | Madagascar | 4,076 t | 2023 | up 0.4% | volatile |
| 40 | Paraguay | 3,810 t | 2023 | down 4.7% | falling |
| 41 | Central African Republic | 629.6 t | 2023 | up 43.1% | volatile |
| 42 | Suriname | 136.1 t | 2023 | down 45.6% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 79.57 million t
- Asia 69.31 million t
- South-Eastern Asia 69.19 million t
- Middle Africa 869,216 t
- Americas 5.91 million t
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 866,455 t
- Africa 3.54 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 853,080 t
- South America 3.38 million t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 2.68 million t
- Western Africa 2.65 million t
- Central America 2.48 million t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 1.15 million t
- Oceania 801,000 t
- Eastern Asia 112,877 t
- Eastern Africa 26,670 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 21,418 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.