Pepper (Piper spp.), raw — 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
Pepper (Piper spp.), raw — Production is currently reported for 52 countries. The highest value is 262,230 t in Viet Nam; the lowest is 0 t in Mali.
The median across all reporting countries is 688.14 t, and the mean is 18,534 t.
Over the past decade 36 countries rose and 16 fell. The largest increase was in Tajikistan (up 4,019.1%), and the largest decrease in Mali (down 100.0%).
Pepper (Piper spp.), raw — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viet Nam | 262,230 t | 2024 | up 72.8% | volatile |
| 2 | India | 126,038 t | 2024 | up 147.1% | volatile |
| 3 | Brazil | 124,925 t | 2024 | up 195.1% | volatile |
| 4 | Burkina Faso | 77,932 t | 2024 | up 159.8% | rising |
| 5 | Indonesia | 62,625 t | 2024 | down 28.3% | rising |
| 6 | Iraq | 60,257 t | 2024 | up 289.1% | rising |
| 7 | Sri Lanka | 44,467 t | 2024 | up 59.7% | volatile |
| 8 | Tajikistan | 35,760 t | 2024 | up 4,019.1% | volatile |
| 9 | China | 34,814 t | 2024 | up 5.7% | volatile |
| 10 | China, mainland | 34,588 t | 2024 | up 5.7% | volatile |
| 11 | Malaysia | 34,408 t | 2024 | up 25.1% | rising |
| 12 | Zimbabwe | 17,480 t | 2024 | up 17.5% | volatile |
| 13 | Mexico | 9,145 t | 2024 | up 176.4% | volatile |
| 14 | Madagascar | 4,836 t | 2024 | up 8.3% | rising |
| 15 | Ecuador | 4,589 t | 2024 | up 82.7% | rising |
| 16 | Ethiopia | 4,562 t | 2024 | up 11.6% | volatile |
| 17 | Niger | 3,899 t | 2024 | up 252.8% | volatile |
| 18 | Ghana | 3,801 t | 2024 | up 4.8% | rising |
| 19 | Rwanda | 2,776 t | 2024 | up 9.7% | rising |
| 20 | Cambodia | 2,511 t | 2024 | up 0.2% | rising |
| 21 | Uganda | 2,217 t | 2024 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 22 | Costa Rica | 1,658 t | 2024 | down 15.4% | rising |
| 23 | Philippines | 827.83 t | 2024 | down 67.7% | falling |
| 24 | Guatemala | 807.63 t | 2024 | down 5.0% | rising |
| 25 | Kenya | 770.41 t | 2024 | up 175.6% | volatile |
| 26 | Honduras | 734.05 t | 2024 | up 29.2% | volatile |
| 27 | Brunei Darussalam | 642.23 t | 2024 | up 6.1% | volatile |
| 28 | Namibia | 459.55 t | 2024 | up 129.8% | rising |
| 29 | Peru | 447.09 t | 2024 | up 41.9% | flat |
| 30 | United Republic of Tanzania | 436.7 t | 2024 | up 9.8% | rising |
| 31 | Malawi | 346.08 t | 2024 | down 78.7% | volatile |
| 32 | Guyana | 337.51 t | 2024 | down 11.5% | rising |
| 33 | Thailand | 261.43 t | 2024 | down 77.7% | volatile |
| 34 | Côte d'Ivoire | 246.16 t | 2024 | down 18.6% | volatile |
| 35 | China, Macao SAR | 226.12 t | 2024 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 36 | Uzbekistan | 211.18 t | 2024 | up 5.6% | rising |
| 37 | Kyrgyzstan | 201.15 t | 2024 | up 11.8% | rising |
| 38 | Ethiopia PDR | 200 t | 1992 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 39 | Benin | 182.61 t | 2024 | up 7.9% | rising |
| 40 | Caribbean | 134.97 t | 2024 | down 25.2% | volatile |
| 41 | Grenada | 124 t | 2024 | down 79.5% | falling |
| 42 | Melanesia | 122.39 t | 2024 | down 1.3% | rising |
| 43 | Fiji | 120.68 t | 2024 | down 2.6% | rising |
| 44 | Cameroon | 99.66 t | 2024 | up 6.8% | rising |
| 45 | Polynesia | 87.45 t | 2024 | up 695.7% | volatile |
| 46 | French Polynesia | 76.09 t | 2024 | up 11.9% | falling |
| 47 | Zambia | 62.64 t | 2024 | down 23.0% | volatile |
| 48 | Georgia | 50 t | 2009 | down 9.1% | falling |
| 49 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 26.81 t | 2024 | up 3.3% | volatile |
| 50 | Samoa | 11.36 t | 2024 | up 3.4% | rising |
| 51 | Saint Lucia | 10.97 t | 2024 | down 93.9% | volatile |
| 52 | Mali | 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.
- World 933,416 t
- Asia 670,294 t
- South-eastern Asia 363,505 t
- Southern Asia 170,505 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 152,073 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 151,710 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 145,474 t
- Americas 142,805 t
- South America 130,326 t
- Africa 120,107 t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 99,761 t
- Western Africa 86,061 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.