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...
What the numbers show
Palm Oil — Production is currently reported for 43 countries. The highest value is 47,080 1000 t in Indonesia; the lowest is 0 1000 t in Belgium.
The median across all reporting countries is 140 1000 t, and the mean is 1,886 1000 t.
Over the past decade 30 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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 10 | Cote d'Ivoire | 590 1000 t | 2023 | up 49.0% | rising |
| 12 | Brazil | 585 1000 t | 2023 | up 72.1% | rising |
| 13 | Ecuador | 495 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 14 | Mexico | 390 1000 t | 2023 | up 406.5% | volatile |
| 15 | Cameroon | 320 1000 t | 2023 | up 28.5% | rising |
| 16 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 300 1000 t | 2023 | up 6.4% | rising |
| 16 | Peru | 300 1000 t | 2023 | up 145.9% | rising |
| 16 | Ghana | 300 1000 t | 2023 | up 150.0% | rising |
| 19 | Costa Rica | 280 1000 t | 2023 | down 6.7% | rising |
| 20 | Nicaragua | 149 1000 t | 2023 | up 396.7% | volatile |
| 21 | Gabon | 147 1000 t | 2023 | up 4,800.0% | volatile |
| 22 | Philippines | 140 1000 t | 2023 | up 32.1% | rising |
| 23 | China | 113 1000 t | 2023 | down 18.7% | falling |
| 23 | China, mainland | 113 1000 t | 2023 | down 18.7% | falling |
| 25 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 103 1000 t | 2023 | up 836.4% | volatile |
| 26 | Cambodia | 100 1000 t | 2023 | up 212.5% | rising |
| 27 | Sierra Leone | 85 1000 t | 2023 | up 41.7% | rising |
| 28 | Panama | 74 1000 t | 2023 | up 2,366.7% | volatile |
| 29 | Angola | 64 1000 t | 2023 | up 39.1% | rising |
| 30 | Caribbean | 55 1000 t | 2023 | up 19.6% | rising |
| 31 | Guinea | 50 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 32 | Dominican Republic | 48 1000 t | 2023 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 33 | Liberia | 45 1000 t | 2023 | up 7.1% | rising |
| 34 | Solomon Islands | 31 1000 t | 2023 | down 16.2% | flat |
| 35 | Congo | 28 1000 t | 2023 | up 7.7% | rising |
| 36 | Senegal | 14 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 37 | United Republic of Tanzania | 6 1000 t | 2023 | down 33.3% | falling |
| 37 | Guinea-Bissau | 6 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 39 | Sao Tome and Principe | 5 1000 t | 2023 | up 25.0% | rising |
| 40 | Paraguay | 4 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 40 | Madagascar | 4 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 40 | Gambia | 4 1000 t | 2023 | up 33.3% | rising |
| 43 | Belgium | 0 1000 t | 2019 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 79,678 1000 t
- Asia 69,295 1000 t
- South-Eastern Asia 69,182 1000 t
- Americas 6,011 1000 t
- Africa 3,571 1000 t
- South America 3,329 1000 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 2,722 1000 t
- Western Africa 2,680 1000 t
- Central America 2,628 1000 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 1,159 1000 t
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 866 1000 t
- Middle Africa 864 1000 t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 857 1000 t
- Oceania 801 1000 t
- Eastern Asia 113 1000 t
- Eastern Africa 27 1000 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 21 1000 t
- European Union (27) 0 1000 t
- Europe 0 1000 t
- Western Europe 0 1000 t
About this data
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.