Rye — 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
Rye — Production is currently reported for 70 countries. The highest value is 14.70 million t in USSR; the lowest is 0 t in Japan.
The median across all reporting countries is 16,681 t, and the mean is 384,007 t.
Over the past decade 21 countries rose and 49 fell. The largest increase was in Kyrgyzstan (up 3,507.0%), and the largest decrease in Ireland (down 100.0%).
Rye — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USSR | 14.70 million t | 1991 | up 70.8% | rising |
| 2 | Germany | 2.58 million t | 2024 | down 32.9% | falling |
| 2 | Türkiye | 257,000 t | 2024 | down 14.3% | volatile |
| 3 | Poland | 2.39 million t | 2024 | down 14.3% | falling |
| 3 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 64,778 t | 2024 | down 4.9% | falling |
| 4 | Russian Federation | 1.20 million t | 2024 | down 63.4% | volatile |
| 4 | Republic of Moldova | 1,464 t | 2024 | up 35.4% | volatile |
| 5 | Belarus | 800,000 t | 2024 | down 7.7% | falling |
| 5 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 445.51 t | 2024 | down 21.9% | volatile |
| 6 | Denmark | 649,760 t | 2024 | down 4.1% | volatile |
| 6 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 280.7 t | 2024 | up 2.4% | volatile |
| 7 | China | 514,091 t | 2024 | down 1.1% | falling |
| 7 | China, mainland | 514,091 t | 2024 | down 1.1% | falling |
| 9 | Canada | 420,925 t | 2024 | up 93.5% | falling |
| 10 | Czechoslovakia | 318,691 t | 1992 | down 45.4% | falling |
| 11 | Iraq | 315,111 t | 2024 | down 21.8% | rising |
| 12 | Spain | 223,510 t | 2024 | down 23.2% | falling |
| 13 | Ukraine | 218,390 t | 2024 | down 54.3% | volatile |
| 14 | Argentina | 217,699 t | 2024 | up 317.6% | volatile |
| 15 | Sweden | 155,500 t | 2024 | down 10.4% | falling |
| 16 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 138,259 t | 2024 | up 147.3% | volatile |
| 17 | Austria | 128,620 t | 2024 | down 44.7% | falling |
| 18 | Latvia | 116,600 t | 2024 | up 2.0% | falling |
| 19 | France | 108,350 t | 2024 | down 15.5% | falling |
| 20 | Czechia | 105,640 t | 2024 | down 18.1% | falling |
| 21 | Egypt | 95,618 t | 2024 | up 6.2% | volatile |
| 22 | Estonia | 72,620 t | 2024 | up 46.4% | volatile |
| 23 | Hungary | 70,820 t | 2024 | down 26.2% | falling |
| 24 | Yugoslav SFR | 70,533 t | 1991 | down 6.0% | falling |
| 25 | Lithuania | 60,500 t | 2024 | down 29.1% | volatile |
| 26 | Finland | 44,000 t | 2024 | down 41.3% | volatile |
| 27 | Kazakhstan | 31,285 t | 2024 | down 48.4% | volatile |
| 28 | Australia and New Zealand | 28,684 t | 2024 | down 2.8% | rising |
| 28 | Australia | 28,684 t | 2024 | down 2.8% | rising |
| 30 | Romania | 27,920 t | 2024 | up 14.6% | volatile |
| 31 | Slovakia | 24,030 t | 2024 | down 55.1% | falling |
| 32 | Norway | 23,400 t | 2024 | down 38.6% | volatile |
| 33 | Serbia | 17,343 t | 2024 | up 48.2% | rising |
| 34 | Serbia and Montenegro | 16,020 t | 2005 | down 5.8% | falling |
| 35 | Bulgaria | 13,540 t | 2024 | down 52.0% | volatile |
| 36 | Greece | 13,480 t | 2024 | down 57.4% | volatile |
| 37 | Portugal | 12,960 t | 2024 | down 26.5% | volatile |
| 38 | Italy | 11,970 t | 2024 | up 3.8% | volatile |
| 39 | Switzerland | 7,395 t | 2024 | down 42.8% | volatile |
| 40 | Luxembourg | 6,200 t | 2024 | up 10.9% | rising |
| 41 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 5,669 t | 2024 | down 43.1% | rising |
| 42 | Brazil | 5,254 t | 2024 | up 18.0% | volatile |
| 43 | Uzbekistan | 4,938 t | 2024 | down 32.4% | volatile |
| 44 | North Macedonia | 4,897 t | 2024 | down 57.1% | falling |
| 45 | Chile | 4,487 t | 2024 | up 22.8% | volatile |
| 46 | Slovenia | 4,420 t | 2024 | down 34.4% | falling |
| 47 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 3,971 t | 1999 | down 72.4% | volatile |
| 48 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 3,920 t | 2024 | down 44.8% | volatile |
| 49 | Albania | 2,928 t | 2024 | down 4.6% | volatile |
| 50 | Belgium | 2,850 t | 2024 | up 58.1% | flat |
| 51 | Morocco | 2,352 t | 2024 | down 3.9% | volatile |
| 52 | Croatia | 2,150 t | 2024 | down 23.2% | falling |
| 53 | South Africa | 1,957 t | 2024 | down 5.6% | volatile |
| 54 | Kyrgyzstan | 1,551 t | 2024 | up 3,507.0% | volatile |
| 55 | Tajikistan | 292.18 t | 2024 | up 83.8% | volatile |
| 56 | Armenia | 271.8 t | 2024 | down 70.6% | volatile |
| 57 | Azerbaijan | 206.47 t | 2024 | up 140.1% | volatile |
| 58 | Georgia | 196.23 t | 2024 | down 1.9% | volatile |
| 59 | Montenegro | 151.9 t | 2024 | down 71.2% | rising |
| 60 | Mexico | 80 t | 2024 | up 459.4% | volatile |
| 61 | Ecuador | 79.9 t | 2024 | down 2.0% | volatile |
| 62 | Peru | 47.39 t | 2024 | down 57.3% | volatile |
| 63 | Republic of Korea | 2.62 t | 2024 | up 9.6% | volatile |
| 64 | Ireland | 0 t | 2024 | down 100.0% | falling |
| 64 | Japan | 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 11.60 million t
- Asia 1.19 million t
- Europe 9.26 million t
- European Union (27) 6.84 million t
- Eastern Europe 4.85 million t
- Western Europe 2.84 million t
- Northern Europe 1.26 million t
- Americas 1.02 million t
- Northern America 795,055 t
- Eastern Asia 578,872 t
- Western Asia 572,785 t
- United States of America 374,130 t
- Southern Europe 299,479 t
- South America 227,848 t
- Africa 99,928 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 98,018 t
- Northern Africa 97,970 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 71,559 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 45,186 t
- Central Asia 38,066 t
- Oceania 28,684 t
- Southern Africa 1,957 t
- Southern Asia 445.51 t
- Central America 80 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.