Pig fat, rendered — 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
Pig fat, rendered — Production is currently reported for 89 countries. The highest value is 2.65 million t in China; the lowest is 29.58 t in Morocco.
The median across all reporting countries is 9,300 t, and the mean is 107,926 t.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 89,536.
Over the past decade 43 countries rose and 46 fell. The largest increase was in Estonia (up 528.4%), and the largest decrease in Cuba (down 90.6%).
Pig fat, rendered — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 2.65 million t | 2023 | up 12.1% | volatile |
| 2 | China, mainland | 2.58 million t | 2023 | up 12.7% | volatile |
| 3 | USSR | 743,000 t | 1991 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 4 | Brazil | 678,200 t | 2023 | up 50.6% | volatile |
| 5 | Germany | 464,927 t | 2023 | down 25.9% | rising |
| 5 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 4,500 t | 2023 | down 17.9% | rising |
| 6 | Yugoslav SFR | 181,200 t | 1991 | down 22.2% | rising |
| 6 | Republic of Moldova | 2,224 t | 2023 | down 67.3% | flat |
| 7 | Canada | 167,552 t | 2023 | up 34.0% | rising |
| 7 | Melanesia | 55.12 t | 2023 | down 73.2% | rising |
| 8 | Italy | 156,800 t | 2023 | down 25.8% | rising |
| 9 | Poland | 152,991 t | 2023 | up 0.7% | rising |
| 10 | France | 142,862 t | 2023 | up 8.4% | rising |
| 11 | Romania | 123,784 t | 2023 | down 4.3% | rising |
| 12 | Mexico | 122,144 t | 2023 | up 3.6% | volatile |
| 13 | Belgium | 111,436 t | 2023 | down 26.5% | rising |
| 14 | Argentina | 107,588 t | 2023 | up 81.3% | volatile |
| 15 | Czechoslovakia | 96,000 t | 1992 | up 15.7% | rising |
| 16 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 91,200 t | 1999 | down 10.6% | rising |
| 17 | Hungary | 87,283 t | 2023 | up 7.4% | falling |
| 18 | Serbia and Montenegro | 84,000 t | 2005 | down 22.2% | falling |
| 18 | Caribbean | 17,695 t | 2023 | down 29.5% | rising |
| 19 | Austria | 73,000 t | 2023 | down 3.3% | rising |
| 20 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 67,918 t | 2023 | down 21.1% | rising |
| 21 | Japan | 54,978 t | 2023 | down 3.2% | falling |
| 22 | Denmark | 48,451 t | 2023 | down 25.0% | rising |
| 23 | Czechia | 46,674 t | 2023 | up 116.2% | rising |
| 24 | Portugal | 39,210 t | 2023 | down 2.7% | rising |
| 25 | China, Taiwan Province of | 37,280 t | 2023 | down 1.8% | rising |
| 26 | Russian Federation | 35,400 t | 2023 | down 89.3% | rising |
| 27 | Australia | 35,000 t | 2023 | up 29.2% | volatile |
| 27 | Australia and New Zealand | 35,000 t | 2023 | up 29.2% | volatile |
| 29 | Ecuador | 34,245 t | 2023 | down 3.4% | volatile |
| 30 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 33,524 t | 2023 | down 6.6% | rising |
| 31 | Sweden | 21,066 t | 2023 | up 13.9% | rising |
| 32 | Philippines | 20,442 t | 2023 | down 9.9% | volatile |
| 33 | India | 20,294 t | 2023 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 34 | Belarus | 18,832 t | 2023 | down 16.8% | falling |
| 35 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 16,200 t | 2023 | up 11.0% | rising |
| 36 | Slovakia | 16,098 t | 2023 | up 0.9% | falling |
| 37 | Peru | 13,892 t | 2023 | up 63.9% | rising |
| 38 | Ireland | 13,500 t | 2023 | up 27.4% | rising |
| 39 | Costa Rica | 12,960 t | 2023 | up 10.7% | volatile |
| 40 | Bulgaria | 10,811 t | 2023 | up 3.0% | volatile |
| 41 | Dominican Republic | 10,484 t | 2023 | up 37.9% | rising |
| 42 | Ukraine | 10,000 t | 2023 | down 87.3% | volatile |
| 43 | Latvia | 9,749 t | 2023 | up 21.3% | falling |
| 44 | Croatia | 9,300 t | 2023 | down 3.1% | falling |
| 45 | Slovenia | 7,400 t | 2023 | up 9.3% | falling |
| 46 | Colombia | 7,339 t | 2023 | up 83.5% | rising |
| 47 | Thailand | 7,212 t | 2023 | down 5.3% | rising |
| 48 | Panama | 6,744 t | 2023 | up 181.0% | volatile |
| 49 | Switzerland | 6,740 t | 2023 | down 15.8% | falling |
| 50 | Angola | 6,359 t | 2023 | up 94.2% | volatile |
| 51 | Uruguay | 4,850 t | 2023 | up 12.4% | rising |
| 52 | Mozambique | 4,850 t | 2023 | down 17.6% | volatile |
| 53 | Guatemala | 3,971 t | 2023 | down 9.5% | rising |
| 54 | Serbia | 3,966 t | 2023 | down 0.9% | volatile |
| 55 | Chile | 3,741 t | 2023 | up 312.1% | volatile |
| 56 | Jamaica | 3,704 t | 2023 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 57 | Lithuania | 2,913 t | 2023 | down 9.0% | volatile |
| 58 | Nicaragua | 2,884 t | 2023 | up 62.2% | falling |
| 59 | Greece | 2,851 t | 2023 | up 18.8% | falling |
| 60 | South Africa | 2,484 t | 2023 | up 154.8% | falling |
| 61 | Indonesia | 2,266 t | 2009 | up 88.8% | volatile |
| 62 | Kazakhstan | 2,115 t | 2023 | down 40.1% | falling |
| 63 | Kenya | 1,870 t | 2023 | up 129.2% | volatile |
| 64 | Finland | 1,714 t | 2023 | up 76.7% | falling |
| 65 | Haiti | 1,279 t | 2023 | down 11.2% | volatile |
| 66 | Malaysia | 1,275 t | 2023 | down 28.9% | rising |
| 67 | North Macedonia | 1,198 t | 2023 | down 70.0% | falling |
| 68 | Uzbekistan | 1,143 t | 2023 | down 79.5% | volatile |
| 69 | Cuba | 1,087 t | 2023 | down 90.6% | volatile |
| 70 | Barbados | 950.8 t | 2023 | up 35.8% | falling |
| 71 | El Salvador | 941.93 t | 2023 | down 39.3% | falling |
| 72 | Spain | 937.69 t | 2023 | up 17.2% | volatile |
| 73 | Honduras | 930.53 t | 2023 | down 8.9% | rising |
| 74 | Malta | 834.71 t | 2023 | down 20.5% | rising |
| 75 | Estonia | 666.11 t | 2023 | up 528.4% | volatile |
| 76 | Israel | 532.64 t | 2023 | down 36.6% | rising |
| 77 | New Zealand | 480 t | 1995 | up 33.3% | falling |
| 78 | Iceland | 449.38 t | 2023 | up 37.5% | volatile |
| 79 | China, Macao SAR | 412.76 t | 2023 | down 18.6% | rising |
| 80 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 383.42 t | 2023 | down 44.8% | falling |
| 81 | Trinidad and Tobago | 190.34 t | 2023 | down 30.7% | rising |
| 82 | Zimbabwe | 156.8 t | 2023 | down 17.0% | volatile |
| 83 | Fiji | 55.12 t | 2023 | down 73.2% | rising |
| 84 | Botswana | 39.79 t | 2023 | up 35.0% | rising |
| 85 | Morocco | 29.58 t | 2023 | down 4.3% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 6.17 million t
- Asia 2.76 million t
- Eastern Asia 2.70 million t
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 17,750 t
- Europe 1.71 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 12,488 t
- Americas 1.66 million t
- Middle Africa 6,359 t
- European Union (27) 1.61 million t
- Western Europe 866,882 t
- South America 854,354 t
- Northern America 633,998 t
- Eastern Europe 504,098 t
- United States of America 466,447 t
- Southern Europe 222,881 t
- Central America 150,576 t
- Northern Europe 114,708 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 51,107 t
- Oceania 35,055 t
- South-Eastern Asia 28,928 t
- Southern Asia 20,294 t
- Africa 15,789 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 12,183 t
- Eastern Africa 6,877 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 6,876 t
- Central Asia 3,258 t
- Southern Africa 2,524 t
- Western Asia 532.64 t
- Northern Africa 29.58 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.