Rape or colza 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
71
Highest
19.24 million t
Canada
Lowest
0 t
Colombia
Median
82,040 t
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,927

What the numbers show

Rape or colza seed — Production is currently reported for 71 countries. The highest value is 19.24 million t in Canada; the lowest is 0 t in Colombia.

The median across all reporting countries is 82,040 t, and the mean is 1.54 million t.

Over the past decade 34 countries rose and 31 fell. The largest increase was in USSR (up 1,239.7%), and the largest decrease in North Macedonia (down 94.5%).

Rape or colza seed — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Canada 19.24 million t 2024 up 17.2% volatile
2 China 16.87 million t 2024 up 14.2% volatile
3 China, mainland 16.87 million t 2024 up 14.2% volatile
4 India 13.26 million t 2024 up 68.3% volatile
5 Australia and New Zealand 6.40 million t 2024 up 80.6% volatile
6 Australia 6.40 million t 2024 up 80.7% volatile
7 Russian Federation 4.61 million t 2024 up 244.6% volatile
8 France 3.94 million t 2024 down 28.7% volatile
9 Germany 3.63 million t 2024 down 41.9% volatile
10 Ukraine 3.59 million t 2024 up 63.4% volatile
11 Poland 3.12 million t 2024 down 4.6% volatile
12 Romania 1.18 million t 2024 up 11.5% volatile
13 Belarus 1.04 million t 2024 up 42.6% volatile
14 Czechia 946,890 t 2024 down 38.4% rising
15 Lithuania 868,000 t 2024 up 73.1% volatile
16 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 823,605 t 2024 down 66.5% volatile
17 Denmark 696,900 t 2024 down 1.7% volatile
18 Bangladesh 637,745 t 2024 up 115.5% rising
19 Pakistan 452,804 t 2024 up 105.7% rising
20 Hungary 450,360 t 2024 down 35.6% volatile
21 Czechoslovakia 430,000 t 1992 up 141.1% volatile
22 Slovakia 393,540 t 2024 down 12.3% rising
23 USSR 388,500 t 1991 up 1,239.7% volatile
24 Brazil 309,200 t 2024 up 462.2% volatile
25 Kazakhstan 286,087 t 2024 up 18.5% volatile
26 Sweden 283,600 t 2024 down 12.1% rising
27 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 280,000 t 2024 up 91.8% volatile
28 Latvia 250,000 t 2024 up 34.8% volatile
29 Spain 224,790 t 2024 up 115.6% volatile
30 Uruguay 211,000 t 2024 up 1,218.8% volatile
31 Bulgaria 159,870 t 2024 down 69.7% volatile
32 Chile 123,068 t 2024 down 9.7% volatile
33 Serbia 97,674 t 2024 up 210.9% volatile
34 Estonia 96,070 t 2024 down 42.3% volatile
35 Republic of Moldova 86,547 t 2024 up 27.0% volatile
36 Paraguay 82,040 t 2024 down 26.8% volatile
37 Ethiopia PDR 81,000 t 1992 up 436.4% volatile
38 Italy 80,840 t 2024 up 94.2% volatile
39 Switzerland 74,435 t 2024 down 20.8% rising
40 Austria 71,490 t 2024 down 63.9% volatile
41 Ireland 65,620 t 2024 up 91.9% volatile
42 Türkiye 61,664 t 2024 down 43.9% volatile
43 Mongolia 59,354 t 2024 up 14.3% volatile
44 Croatia 53,090 t 2024 down 25.5% volatile
45 Finland 49,100 t 2024 down 20.9% volatile
46 Argentina 45,162 t 2024 down 59.6% volatile
47 Belgium-Luxembourg 39,000 t 1999 up 150.8% volatile
48 Yugoslav SFR 36,816 t 1991 down 43.4% volatile
49 Belgium 35,750 t 2024 down 38.9% rising
50 Algeria 23,060 t 2024 down 2.0% volatile
51 Ethiopia 22,000 t 2024 down 69.0% volatile
52 Luxembourg 9,090 t 2024 down 42.1% falling
53 Slovenia 8,260 t 2024 down 58.5% volatile
54 Greece 6,640 t 2024 down 18.8% volatile
55 Norway 6,000 t 2024 down 38.1% rising
56 Tunisia 5,474 t 2024 up 51.3% rising
57 Bosnia and Herzegovina 4,554 t 2024 up 122.5% volatile
58 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 4,440 t 2024 down 56.6% volatile
59 Serbia and Montenegro 3,333 t 2005 down 66.7% volatile
60 Japan 3,140 t 2024 up 76.4% volatile
61 New Zealand 2,238 t 2024 down 15.7% volatile
62 Morocco 2,000 t 2024 unchanged volatile
62 Mexico 2,000 t 2024 unchanged volatile
64 Uzbekistan 1,277 t 2024 up 6.4% flat
65 Republic of Korea 1,000 t 2024 unchanged volatile
66 North Macedonia 413 t 2024 down 94.5% volatile
67 Tajikistan 124.32 t 2024 up 117.0% volatile
68 Kyrgyzstan 31 t 2024 volatile
69 China, Taiwan Province of 7.98 t 2024 up 4.5% volatile
70 Malta 0 t 2024 flat
70 Colombia 0 t 1992 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
Rape or colza seed — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
98 places, 4,927 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.