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...
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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Czechia | 20,048 t | 2017 | down 39.4% | rising |
| 2 | Spain | 11,900 t | 2017 | up 116.4% | volatile |
| 2 | Türkiye | 8,441 t | 2024 | down 48.0% | volatile |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | 9,692 t | 1992 | up 135.7% | flat |
| 4 | France | 5,057 t | 2017 | down 10.8% | volatile |
| 5 | Hungary | 3,864 t | 2017 | up 58.3% | rising |
| 6 | Germany | 2,905 t | 2017 | up 3.6% | rising |
| 7 | Croatia | 2,771 t | 2017 | up 152.0% | volatile |
| 8 | Slovakia | 1,958 t | 2017 | up 306.2% | volatile |
| 9 | Austria | 1,799 t | 2017 | down 8.4% | volatile |
| 10 | Palestine | 1,582 t | 2022 | down 4.8% | rising |
| 11 | India | 1,500 t | 1986 | down 50.0% | rising |
| 12 | Romania | 1,314 t | 2017 | down 17.8% | volatile |
| 13 | Serbia | 1,079 t | 2024 | up 7.9% | rising |
| 14 | Yugoslav SFR | 835 t | 1991 | down 37.5% | volatile |
| 15 | Serbia and Montenegro | 650 t | 2005 | down 37.8% | falling |
| 16 | Bulgaria | 607.84 t | 2017 | up 21.6% | volatile |
| 17 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 355.7 t | 2017 | down 47.7% | volatile |
| 18 | Denmark | 162 t | 1995 | down 73.9% | volatile |
| 19 | 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.
- European Union (27) 52,580 t
- Asia 9,489 t
- Eastern Europe 27,792 t
- World 10,592 t
- Western Europe 10,117 t
- Western Asia 9,489 t
- Southern Asia 1,500 t
- Europe 1,103 t
- Southern Europe 1,103 t
- Northern Europe 162 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 24 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.