Raw silk (not thrown) — 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
Raw silk (not thrown) — Production is currently reported for 33 countries. The highest value is 50,000 t in China; the lowest is 0 t in Poland.
The median across all reporting countries is 15 t, and the mean is 4,554 t.
Over the past decade 11 countries rose and 15 fell. The largest increase was in Iran (Islamic Republic of) (up 124.4%), and the largest decrease in Poland (down 100.0%).
Raw silk (not thrown) — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 50,000 t | 2023 | down 61.5% | volatile |
| 2 | China, mainland | 50,000 t | 2023 | down 61.5% | volatile |
| 2 | Viet Nam | 1,448 t | 2023 | up 51.8% | volatile |
| 3 | India | 38,913 t | 2023 | up 64.3% | volatile |
| 3 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 370 t | 2023 | up 23.3% | volatile |
| 4 | USSR | 4,100 t | 1991 | up 12.2% | rising |
| 4 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 276 t | 2023 | up 124.4% | volatile |
| 5 | Romania | 2,100 t | 2017 | unchanged | volatile |
| 6 | Uzbekistan | 2,037 t | 2023 | up 107.9% | rising |
| 6 | Türkiye | 5 t | 2023 | down 80.0% | volatile |
| 7 | Brazil | 330 t | 2023 | down 23.9% | volatile |
| 7 | Syrian Arab Republic | 2 t | 2012 | — | volatile |
| 8 | Thailand | 291 t | 2023 | down 57.2% | volatile |
| 9 | Tajikistan | 171.69 t | 2023 | down 14.2% | rising |
| 10 | Afghanistan | 49.31 t | 2023 | down 1.4% | flat |
| 11 | Kyrgyzstan | 47.97 t | 2023 | down 4.1% | volatile |
| 12 | Yugoslav SFR | 45 t | 1991 | up 4.7% | volatile |
| 13 | Cambodia | 25.03 t | 2023 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 14 | Spain | 15 t | 2013 | — | volatile |
| 15 | Italy | 12 t | 2017 | unchanged | volatile |
| 16 | Japan | 10 t | 2023 | down 66.7% | volatile |
| 17 | Madagascar | 8 t | 2023 | down 42.9% | rising |
| 18 | Lebanon | 7 t | 1990 | up 40.0% | falling |
| 19 | Bulgaria | 5 t | 2017 | unchanged | volatile |
| 20 | Indonesia | 3 t | 2023 | down 81.2% | volatile |
| 20 | Greece | 3 t | 2017 | down 6.2% | volatile |
| 22 | Egypt | 1.06 t | 2023 | up 6.0% | volatile |
| 23 | Republic of Korea | 1 t | 2023 | up 2.0% | volatile |
| 23 | Philippines | 1 t | 2023 | down 50.0% | falling |
| 25 | China, Taiwan Province of | 0.4 t | 2023 | down 24.5% | volatile |
| 26 | France | 0 t | 1999 | — | volatile |
| 26 | Hungary | 0 t | 1990 | — | volatile |
| 26 | Poland | 0 t | 1992 | down 100.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 93,988 t
- Asia 93,649 t
- Eastern Asia 50,381 t
- Southern Asia 39,238 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 2,684 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 2,306 t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 82.34 t
- Central Asia 2,257 t
- Europe 2,120 t
- European Union (27) 2,120 t
- Eastern Europe 2,105 t
- South-Eastern Asia 1,768 t
- South America 330 t
- Americas 330 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 83.4 t
- Southern Europe 15 t
- Africa 9.06 t
- Eastern Africa 8 t
- Western Asia 5 t
- Northern Africa 1.06 t
- Western Europe 0 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.