Poppy seed — 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
20
Highest
20,048 t
Czechia
Lowest
24 t
North Macedonia
Median
1,690 t
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
1,383

What the numbers show

Poppy seed — Production is currently reported for 20 countries. The highest value is 20,048 t in Czechia; the lowest is 24 t in North Macedonia.

The median across all reporting countries is 1,690 t, and the mean is 3,827 t.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 835.

Over the past decade 8 countries rose and 12 fell. The largest increase was in Slovakia (up 306.2%), and the largest decrease in Denmark (down 73.9%).

Poppy seed — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Czechia 20,048 t 2017 down 39.4% rising
2 Spain 11,900 t 2017 up 116.4% volatile
3 Czechoslovakia 9,692 t 1992 up 135.7% flat
4 Türkiye 8,441 t 2024 down 48.0% volatile
5 France 5,057 t 2017 down 10.8% volatile
6 Hungary 3,864 t 2017 up 58.3% rising
7 Germany 2,905 t 2017 up 3.6% rising
8 Croatia 2,771 t 2017 up 152.0% volatile
9 Slovakia 1,958 t 2017 up 306.2% volatile
10 Austria 1,799 t 2017 down 8.4% volatile
11 Palestine 1,582 t 2022 down 4.8% rising
12 India 1,500 t 1986 down 50.0% rising
13 Romania 1,314 t 2017 down 17.8% volatile
14 Serbia 1,079 t 2024 up 7.9% rising
15 Yugoslav SFR 835 t 1991 down 37.5% volatile
16 Serbia and Montenegro 650 t 2005 down 37.8% falling
17 Bulgaria 607.84 t 2017 up 21.6% volatile
18 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 355.7 t 2017 down 47.7% volatile
19 Denmark 162 t 1995 down 73.9% volatile
20 North Macedonia 24 t 2024 down 68.0% 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
Poppy seed — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
31 places, 1,383 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.