Plums and sloes — 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
97
Highest
6.91 million t
China
Lowest
0 t
Finland
Median
16,005 t
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
6,568

What the numbers show

Plums and sloes — Production is currently reported for 97 countries. The highest value is 6.91 million t in China; the lowest is 0 t in Finland.

The median across all reporting countries is 16,005 t, and the mean is 217,501 t.

Over the past decade 54 countries rose and 41 fell. The largest increase was in Bosnia and Herzegovina (up 333.6%), and the largest decrease in Estonia (down 68.8%).

Plums and sloes — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China 6.91 million t 2024 up 10.4% volatile
2 China, mainland 6.90 million t 2024 up 10.6% volatile
3 USSR 930,000 t 1991 down 17.8% rising
4 Romania 602,570 t 2024 up 21.7% falling
5 Yugoslav SFR 549,718 t 1991 down 32.6% falling
6 Chile 509,843 t 2024 up 64.4% volatile
7 Serbia 387,227 t 2024 down 3.5% falling
8 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 378,382 t 2024 up 42.8% volatile
9 Türkiye 376,000 t 2024 up 41.6% rising
10 Bosnia and Herzegovina 321,200 t 2024 up 333.6% volatile
11 Serbia and Montenegro 311,757 t 2005 up 36.1% falling
12 Morocco 239,724 t 2024 up 158.1% volatile
13 Uzbekistan 199,845 t 2024 up 66.5% rising
14 Russian Federation 179,519 t 2024 up 28.2% rising
15 Argentina 173,850 t 2024 down 2.3% volatile
16 France 170,510 t 2024 down 14.6% rising
17 Italy 170,170 t 2024 down 20.8% rising
18 Ukraine 167,000 t 2024 up 2.3% rising
19 Spain 135,750 t 2024 down 41.7% rising
20 Poland 95,200 t 2024 down 10.2% falling
21 Republic of Moldova 95,125 t 2024 up 30.7% rising
22 Algeria 94,566 t 2024 down 11.8% volatile
23 India 67,936 t 2024 down 10.6% volatile
24 Pakistan 63,394 t 2024 up 16.7% rising
25 Mexico 61,626 t 2024 down 13.4% rising
26 Bulgaria 60,800 t 2024 up 146.8% volatile
27 Libya 56,744 t 2024 up 7.4% volatile
28 Republic of Korea 50,500 t 2024 down 13.5% volatile
29 Germany 49,290 t 2024 down 12.5% volatile
30 Egypt 49,066 t 2024 up 245.0% volatile
31 Afghanistan 48,495 t 2024 up 22.7% falling
32 Azerbaijan 44,727 t 2024 up 74.5% rising
33 Albania 40,196 t 2024 up 21.1% volatile
34 Czechoslovakia 36,000 t 1992 down 42.5% volatile
35 Hungary 35,910 t 2024 down 20.4% volatile
36 Turkmenistan 34,050 t 2024 up 1.6% rising
37 Greece 29,350 t 2024 up 62.5% falling
38 Australia and New Zealand 29,175 t 2024 up 18.7% flat
39 North Macedonia 28,750 t 2024 down 13.1% rising
40 Armenia 28,707 t 2024 up 32.6% volatile
41 Australia 27,905 t 2024 up 23.4% rising
42 Georgia 27,600 t 2024 up 28.4% rising
43 Syrian Arab Republic 25,624 t 2024 down 16.1% volatile
44 Tunisia 20,595 t 2024 up 58.4% rising
45 Colombia 19,051 t 2024 up 26.0% rising
46 Lebanon 18,600 t 2024 down 34.7% volatile
47 Montenegro 16,432 t 2024 up 186.1% rising
48 Japan 16,400 t 2024 down 26.5% volatile
49 Israel 16,005 t 2024 down 33.2% rising
50 Portugal 15,930 t 2024 down 34.1% rising
51 Austria 14,910 t 2024 up 4.2% volatile
52 Yemen 14,825 t 2021 volatile
53 Kyrgyzstan 12,330 t 2024 down 5.2% volatile
54 Belarus 11,383 t 2024 up 52.9% volatile
55 Croatia 10,780 t 2024 up 90.8% volatile
56 Switzerland 10,425 t 2024 up 1.5% volatile
57 Ecuador 8,767 t 2024 up 0.7% volatile
58 Nepal 8,302 t 2024 down 14.9% rising
59 Kazakhstan 7,397 t 2024 up 49.3% volatile
60 China, Taiwan Province of 6,986 t 2024 down 54.3% volatile
61 Iraq 6,828 t 2024 down 40.1% volatile
62 Peru 6,362 t 2024 down 16.8% rising
63 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 6,360 t 2024 up 21.6% falling
64 Jordan 5,394 t 2024 up 20.0% volatile
65 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 4,480 t 2024 down 61.6% volatile
66 United Republic of Tanzania 4,183 t 2024 up 5.2% volatile
67 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 4,181 t 2024 up 8.3% volatile
68 Kenya 3,749 t 2024 up 73.3% volatile
69 Czechia 3,610 t 2024 down 41.0% volatile
70 Tajikistan 3,508 t 2024 up 0.2% volatile
71 Canada 3,387 t 2024 down 16.4% volatile
72 Belgium-Luxembourg 3,000 t 1999 up 25.0% volatile
73 Madagascar 2,367 t 2024 up 8.3% volatile
74 Uruguay 2,213 t 2024 up 0.7% falling
75 Norway 2,100 t 2024 up 51.3% volatile
76 Palestine 2,059 t 2022 down 26.4% volatile
77 Paraguay 2,009 t 2024 up 9.4% rising
78 Cyprus 1,550 t 2024 up 75.1% rising
79 Slovakia 1,540 t 2024 down 35.1% volatile
80 Eswatini 1,434 t 2024 down 11.1% falling
81 New Zealand 1,270 t 2024 down 34.8% falling
82 Cameroon 624.02 t 2024 up 6.4% volatile
83 Slovenia 530 t 2024 up 40.6% volatile
84 Lithuania 470 t 2024 down 58.7% volatile
85 Denmark 450 t 2024 up 41.1% volatile
86 Grenada 343.46 t 2024 down 53.9% rising
86 Caribbean 343.46 t 2024 down 53.9% rising
88 Luxembourg 280 t 2024 up 101.4% volatile
89 Zimbabwe 274.87 t 2024 up 8.9% volatile
90 Bhutan 272.79 t 2024 down 65.2% volatile
91 Belgium 230 t 2024 up 15.0% volatile
91 Sweden 230 t 2024 down 8.0% volatile
93 Latvia 200 t 2024 up 83.5% volatile
94 Malawi 148.83 t 2024 down 2.1% flat
95 Estonia 20 t 2024 down 68.8% volatile
95 Malta 20 t 2024 down 50.0% volatile
97 Finland 0 t 2024 flat

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
Plums and sloes — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
126 places, 6,568 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.