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...

Countries reporting
88
Highest
2.65 million t
China
Lowest
29.58 t
Morocco
Median
9,524 t
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
6,609

What the numbers show

Pig fat, rendered — Production is currently reported for 88 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 9,524 t, and the mean is 109,124 t.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 89,536.

Over the past decade 42 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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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
6 Yugoslav SFR 181,200 t 1991 down 22.2% rising
7 Canada 167,552 t 2023 up 34.0% 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
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 Caribbean 17,695 t 2023 down 29.5% rising
36 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 16,200 t 2023 up 11.0% rising
37 Slovakia 16,098 t 2023 up 0.9% falling
38 Peru 13,892 t 2023 up 63.9% rising
39 Ireland 13,500 t 2023 up 27.4% rising
40 Costa Rica 12,960 t 2023 up 10.7% volatile
41 Bulgaria 10,811 t 2023 up 3.0% volatile
42 Dominican Republic 10,484 t 2023 up 37.9% rising
43 Ukraine 10,000 t 2023 down 87.3% volatile
44 Latvia 9,749 t 2023 up 21.3% falling
45 Croatia 9,300 t 2023 down 3.1% falling
46 Slovenia 7,400 t 2023 up 9.3% falling
47 Colombia 7,339 t 2023 up 83.5% rising
48 Thailand 7,212 t 2023 down 5.3% rising
49 Panama 6,744 t 2023 up 181.0% volatile
50 Switzerland 6,740 t 2023 down 15.8% falling
51 Angola 6,359 t 2023 up 94.2% volatile
52 Uruguay 4,850 t 2023 up 12.4% rising
53 Mozambique 4,850 t 2023 down 17.6% volatile
54 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 4,500 t 2023 down 17.9% rising
55 Guatemala 3,971 t 2023 down 9.5% rising
56 Serbia 3,966 t 2023 down 0.9% volatile
57 Chile 3,741 t 2023 up 312.1% volatile
58 Jamaica 3,704 t 2023 up 5.8% rising
59 Lithuania 2,913 t 2023 down 9.0% volatile
60 Nicaragua 2,884 t 2023 up 62.2% falling
61 Greece 2,851 t 2023 up 18.8% falling
62 Indonesia 2,266 t 2009 up 88.8% volatile
63 Republic of Moldova 2,224 t 2023 down 67.3% flat
64 Kazakhstan 2,115 t 2023 down 40.1% falling
65 Kenya 1,870 t 2023 up 129.2% volatile
66 Finland 1,714 t 2023 up 76.7% falling
67 Haiti 1,279 t 2023 down 11.2% volatile
68 Malaysia 1,275 t 2023 down 28.9% rising
69 North Macedonia 1,198 t 2023 down 70.0% falling
70 Uzbekistan 1,143 t 2023 down 79.5% volatile
71 Cuba 1,087 t 2023 down 90.6% volatile
72 Barbados 950.8 t 2023 up 35.8% falling
73 El Salvador 941.93 t 2023 down 39.3% falling
74 Spain 937.69 t 2023 up 17.2% volatile
75 Honduras 930.53 t 2023 down 8.9% rising
76 Malta 834.71 t 2023 down 20.5% rising
77 Estonia 666.11 t 2023 up 528.4% volatile
78 Israel 532.64 t 2023 down 36.6% rising
79 New Zealand 480 t 1995 up 33.3% falling
80 Iceland 449.38 t 2023 up 37.5% volatile
81 China, Macao SAR 412.76 t 2023 down 18.6% rising
82 Bosnia and Herzegovina 383.42 t 2023 down 44.8% falling
83 Trinidad and Tobago 190.34 t 2023 down 30.7% rising
84 Zimbabwe 156.8 t 2023 down 17.0% volatile
85 Fiji 55.12 t 2023 down 73.2% rising
85 Melanesia 55.12 t 2023 down 73.2% rising
87 Botswana 39.79 t 2023 up 35.0% rising
88 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.

About this data

Indicator
Pig fat, rendered — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
118 places, 6,609 data points, 1961–2023
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.