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...

Countries reporting
70
Highest
14.70 million t
USSR
Lowest
0 t
Malta
Median
16,681 t
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,865

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 Malta.

The median across all reporting countries is 16,681 t, and the mean is 383,979 t.

Over the past decade 21 countries rose and 48 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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 USSR 14.70 million t 1991 up 70.8% rising
2 Germany 2.58 million t 2024 down 32.9% falling
3 Poland 2.39 million t 2024 down 14.3% falling
4 Russian Federation 1.20 million t 2024 down 63.4% volatile
5 Belarus 800,000 t 2024 down 7.7% falling
6 Denmark 649,760 t 2024 down 4.1% volatile
7 China, mainland 514,091 t 2024 down 1.1% falling
7 China 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 Türkiye 257,000 t 2024 down 14.3% volatile
13 Spain 223,510 t 2024 down 23.2% falling
14 Ukraine 218,390 t 2024 down 54.3% volatile
15 Argentina 217,699 t 2024 up 317.6% volatile
16 Sweden 155,500 t 2024 down 10.4% falling
17 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 138,259 t 2024 up 147.3% volatile
18 Austria 128,620 t 2024 down 44.7% falling
19 Latvia 116,600 t 2024 up 2.0% falling
20 France 108,350 t 2024 down 15.5% falling
21 Czechia 105,640 t 2024 down 18.1% falling
22 Egypt 95,618 t 2024 up 6.2% volatile
23 Estonia 72,620 t 2024 up 46.4% volatile
24 Hungary 70,820 t 2024 down 26.2% falling
25 Yugoslav SFR 70,533 t 1991 down 6.0% falling
26 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 64,778 t 2024 down 4.9% falling
27 Lithuania 60,500 t 2024 down 29.1% volatile
28 Finland 44,000 t 2024 down 41.3% volatile
29 Kazakhstan 31,285 t 2024 down 48.4% volatile
30 Australia and New Zealand 28,684 t 2024 down 2.8% rising
30 Australia 28,684 t 2024 down 2.8% rising
32 Romania 27,920 t 2024 up 14.6% volatile
33 Slovakia 24,030 t 2024 down 55.1% falling
34 Norway 23,400 t 2024 down 38.6% volatile
35 Serbia 17,343 t 2024 up 48.2% rising
36 Serbia and Montenegro 16,020 t 2005 down 5.8% falling
37 Bulgaria 13,540 t 2024 down 52.0% volatile
38 Greece 13,480 t 2024 down 57.4% volatile
39 Portugal 12,960 t 2024 down 26.5% volatile
40 Italy 11,970 t 2024 up 3.8% volatile
41 Switzerland 7,395 t 2024 down 42.8% volatile
42 Luxembourg 6,200 t 2024 up 10.9% rising
43 Bosnia and Herzegovina 5,669 t 2024 down 43.1% rising
44 Brazil 5,254 t 2024 up 18.0% volatile
45 Uzbekistan 4,938 t 2024 down 32.4% volatile
46 North Macedonia 4,897 t 2024 down 57.1% falling
47 Chile 4,487 t 2024 up 22.8% volatile
48 Slovenia 4,420 t 2024 down 34.4% falling
49 Belgium-Luxembourg 3,971 t 1999 down 72.4% volatile
50 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 3,920 t 2024 down 44.8% volatile
51 Albania 2,928 t 2024 down 4.6% volatile
52 Belgium 2,850 t 2024 up 58.1% flat
53 Morocco 2,352 t 2024 down 3.9% volatile
54 Croatia 2,150 t 2024 down 23.2% falling
55 Kyrgyzstan 1,551 t 2024 up 3,507.0% volatile
56 Republic of Moldova 1,464 t 2024 up 35.4% volatile
57 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 445.51 t 2024 down 21.9% volatile
58 Tajikistan 292.18 t 2024 up 83.8% volatile
59 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 280.7 t 2024 up 2.4% volatile
60 Armenia 271.8 t 2024 down 70.6% volatile
61 Azerbaijan 206.47 t 2024 up 140.1% volatile
62 Georgia 196.23 t 2024 down 1.9% volatile
63 Montenegro 151.9 t 2024 down 71.2% rising
64 Mexico 80 t 2024 up 459.4% volatile
65 Ecuador 79.9 t 2024 down 2.0% volatile
66 Peru 47.39 t 2024 down 57.3% volatile
67 Republic of Korea 2.62 t 2024 up 9.6% volatile
68 Ireland 0 t 2024 down 100.0% falling
68 Japan 0 t 1992 down 100.0% volatile
68 Malta 0 t 2024 flat

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
Rye — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
95 places, 4,865 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.