Palm Oil — Production by country

A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply...

Countries reporting
50
Highest
47,080 1000 t
Indonesia
Lowest
0 1000 t
Ukraine
Median
92.5 1000 t
Years covered
14
2010–2023
Data points
938

What the numbers show

Palm Oil — Production is currently reported for 50 countries. The highest value is 47,080 1000 t in Indonesia; the lowest is 0 1000 t in Ukraine.

The median across all reporting countries is 92.5 1000 t, and the mean is 1,610 1000 t.

Over the past decade 29 countries rose and 6 fell. The largest increase was in Gabon (up 4,800.0%), and the largest decrease in United Republic of Tanzania (down 33.3%).

Palm Oil — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Indonesia 47,080 1000 t 2023 up 69.5% rising
2 Malaysia 18,552 1000 t 2023 down 3.5% flat
3 Thailand 3,310 1000 t 2023 up 68.0% rising
4 Colombia 1,842 1000 t 2023 up 76.9% rising
5 Nigeria 1,460 1000 t 2023 up 65.9% rising
6 Guatemala 1,065 1000 t 2023 up 159.8% rising
7 Melanesia 801 1000 t 2023 up 49.2% rising
8 Papua New Guinea 770 1000 t 2023 up 54.0% rising
9 Honduras 670 1000 t 2023 up 57.6% rising
10 Côte d'Ivoire 590 1000 t 2023 up 49.0% rising
11 Brazil 585 1000 t 2023 up 72.1% rising
12 Ecuador 495 1000 t 2023 unchanged flat
13 Mexico 390 1000 t 2023 up 406.5% volatile
14 Cameroon 320 1000 t 2023 up 28.5% rising
15 Peru 300 1000 t 2023 up 145.9% rising
15 Democratic Republic of the Congo 300 1000 t 2023 up 6.4% rising
15 Ghana 300 1000 t 2023 up 150.0% rising
18 Costa Rica 280 1000 t 2023 down 6.7% rising
19 Nicaragua 149 1000 t 2023 up 396.7% volatile
20 Gabon 147 1000 t 2023 up 4,800.0% volatile
21 Philippines 140 1000 t 2023 up 32.1% rising
22 China, mainland 113 1000 t 2023 down 18.7% falling
22 China 113 1000 t 2023 down 18.7% falling
24 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 103 1000 t 2023 up 836.4% volatile
25 Cambodia 100 1000 t 2023 up 212.5% rising
26 Sierra Leone 85 1000 t 2023 up 41.7% rising
27 Panama 74 1000 t 2023 up 2,366.7% volatile
28 Angola 64 1000 t 2023 up 39.1% rising
29 Caribbean 55 1000 t 2023 up 19.6% rising
30 Guinea 50 1000 t 2023 unchanged flat
31 Dominican Republic 48 1000 t 2023 up 4.3% rising
32 Liberia 45 1000 t 2023 up 7.1% rising
33 Solomon Islands 31 1000 t 2023 down 16.2% flat
34 Congo 28 1000 t 2023 up 7.7% rising
35 Senegal 14 1000 t 2023 unchanged rising
36 Guinea-Bissau 6 1000 t 2023 unchanged flat
36 United Republic of Tanzania 6 1000 t 2023 down 33.3% falling
38 Sao Tome and Principe 5 1000 t 2023 up 25.0% rising
39 Paraguay 4 1000 t 2023 unchanged flat
39 Madagascar 4 1000 t 2023 unchanged flat
39 Gambia 4 1000 t 2023 up 33.3% rising
42 Belgium 0 1000 t 2019 volatile
42 Timor-Leste 0 1000 t 2015 flat
42 Germany 0 1000 t 2019 flat
42 Kazakhstan 0 1000 t 2019 flat
42 Mozambique 0 1000 t 2018 flat
42 Russian Federation 0 1000 t 2019 flat
42 Norway 0 1000 t 2019 flat
42 Suriname 0 1000 t 2023 flat
42 Ukraine 0 1000 t 2022 flat

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 Oil — Production
Unit
1000 t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
73 places, 938 data points, 2010–2023
Last refreshed

A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per caput supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it. Data on per capita food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.