Papayas — 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
78
Highest
5.29 million t
India
Lowest
0 t
Singapore
Median
10,392 t
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
5,315

What the numbers show

Papayas — Production is currently reported for 78 countries. The highest value is 5.29 million t in India; the lowest is 0 t in Singapore.

The median across all reporting countries is 10,392 t, and the mean is 223,305 t.

Over the past decade 52 countries rose and 25 fell. The largest increase was in Israel (up 3,808.9%), and the largest decrease in Singapore (down 100.0%).

Papayas — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 India 5.29 million t 2024 down 6.2% volatile
2 Caribbean 2.03 million t 2024 up 130.2% volatile
3 Dominican Republic 1.94 million t 2024 up 175.6% volatile
4 Indonesia 1.21 million t 2024 up 43.7% volatile
5 Brazil 1.15 million t 2024 down 28.3% volatile
6 Mexico 1.14 million t 2024 up 36.6% volatile
7 Nigeria 886,529 t 2024 up 4.3% rising
8 China 709,308 t 2024 up 43.4% volatile
9 China, mainland 587,829 t 2024 up 55.2% volatile
10 Democratic Republic of the Congo 207,573 t 2024 down 0.9% rising
11 Peru 167,729 t 2024 up 13.1% volatile
12 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 167,340 t 2024 down 4.3% volatile
13 Colombia 166,531 t 2024 up 7.2% volatile
14 Thailand 161,769 t 2024 up 2.7% volatile
15 Philippines 149,214 t 2024 down 13.6% rising
16 Bangladesh 146,157 t 2024 up 11.6% volatile
17 Viet Nam 134,967 t 2024 up 114.7% volatile
18 China, Taiwan Province of 121,479 t 2024 up 4.9% volatile
19 Kenya 100,537 t 2024 down 19.7% volatile
20 Mali 97,106 t 2024 up 62.5% volatile
21 Guyana 89,449 t 2024 up 1,426.4% volatile
22 Guatemala 87,018 t 2024 up 23.5% volatile
23 Ethiopia 82,703 t 2024 up 57.0% rising
24 Malawi 60,740 t 2024 up 15.3% rising
25 Costa Rica 54,791 t 2024 down 39.1% volatile
26 Ecuador 48,970 t 2024 up 8.8% flat
27 Cuba 46,976 t 2024 down 66.3% volatile
28 Malaysia 46,976 t 2024 down 15.1% volatile
29 Mozambique 43,330 t 2024 up 1.0% rising
30 Lao People's Democratic Republic 29,845 t 2024 up 3.0% rising
31 Yemen 25,915 t 2024 down 0.8% volatile
32 Haiti 25,262 t 2024 up 17.7% volatile
33 Australia 20,576 t 2024 up 151.2% volatile
33 Australia and New Zealand 20,576 t 2024 up 151.2% volatile
35 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 17,985 t 2024 up 0.2% volatile
36 Côte d'Ivoire 14,752 t 2024 up 9.9% volatile
37 Nepal 13,676 t 2024 down 44.9% falling
38 Pakistan 12,872 t 2024 up 86.6% volatile
39 Paraguay 10,997 t 2024 down 1.7% flat
40 Jamaica 9,788 t 2024 up 7.5% volatile
41 Panama 9,200 t 2024 up 22.5% rising
42 Puerto Rico 7,976 t 2024 up 20.9% volatile
43 Fiji 6,958 t 2024 up 20.4% volatile
43 Melanesia 6,958 t 2024 up 20.4% volatile
45 Oman 6,080 t 2024 up 5.9% volatile
46 Ghana 5,794 t 2024 up 4.2% rising
47 Saudi Arabia 4,800 t 2024 rising
48 Polynesia 4,104 t 2024 up 1.6% falling
49 Congo 3,870 t 2024 up 3.9% rising
50 Samoa 3,294 t 2024 down 3.8% falling
51 Guinea-Bissau 3,116 t 2024 up 6.1% rising
52 Morocco 2,700 t 2024 up 196.1% volatile
53 Timor-Leste 2,211 t 2024 down 8.7% volatile
54 Argentina 2,210 t 2024 up 0.1% rising
55 Chile 1,954 t 2024 down 45.9% volatile
56 Belize 1,764 t 2024 down 93.6% volatile
57 Israel 1,759 t 2024 up 3,808.9% volatile
58 El Salvador 1,373 t 2024 down 80.5% volatile
59 Maldives 1,281 t 2024 up 52.3% volatile
60 Trinidad and Tobago 1,261 t 2024 down 29.9% volatile
61 Bahamas 596.13 t 2024 up 8.0% rising
62 Cook Islands 580.63 t 2024 down 5.6% volatile
63 French Guiana 394 t 2006 up 1.3% rising
64 Honduras 323.3 t 2024 up 0.4% volatile
65 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 300.61 t 2024 down 6.9% volatile
66 French Polynesia 229.23 t 2024 down 19.8% falling
67 Grenada 210 t 1995 up 39.1% rising
68 Bhutan 147.28 t 2024 up 16.5% rising
69 Rwanda 133.73 t 2024 down 97.0% volatile
70 Suriname 102.93 t 2024 down 87.3% volatile
71 Dominica 91.28 t 2024 up 7.2% rising
72 Tunisia 78.3 t 2024 up 11.8% volatile
73 Cameroon 47.24 t 2024 up 20.1% volatile
74 Zimbabwe 44.26 t 2024 up 1.5% volatile
75 Guadeloupe 40.7 t 2006 down 16.5% volatile
76 Nauru 2.31 t 2024 up 1,825.0% rising
76 Micronesia 2.31 t 2024 up 1,825.0% rising
78 Singapore 0 t 1992 down 100.0% 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
Papayas — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
103 places, 5,315 data points, 1961–2024
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.