Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production in France
France: Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production was 14,280 t in 2017. ▼ Falling
Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production in France, 1961–2017
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production in France is 14,280 t, measured in 2017.
The figure is up 0.4% on the previous year and up 2.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production in France peaked at 25,500 t in 1965 and was at its lowest, 14,000 t, in 2005.
That places France 25th out of 100 countries with data for 2017, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 57 years of available data.
Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production in France, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 23,600 t | — |
| 1962 | 21,700 t | -8.1% |
| 1963 | 21,000 t | -3.2% |
| 1964 | 24,200 t | +15.2% |
| 1965 | 25,500 t | +5.4% |
| 1966 | 23,800 t | -6.7% |
| 1967 | 24,000 t | +0.8% |
| 1968 | 20,400 t | -15.0% |
| 1969 | 20,100 t | -1.5% |
| 1970 | 20,346 t | +1.2% |
| 1971 | 21,000 t | +3.2% |
| 1972 | 21,200 t | +1.0% |
| 1973 | 21,400 t | +0.9% |
| 1974 | 21,700 t | +1.4% |
| 1975 | 15,704 t | -27.6% |
| 1976 | 22,100 t | +40.7% |
| 1977 | 22,200 t | +0.5% |
| 1978 | 22,200 t | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 22,200 t | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 22,200 t | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 22,200 t | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 22,200 t | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 22,500 t | +1.4% |
| 1984 | 24,000 t | +6.7% |
| 1985 | 24,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 24,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 24,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 23,000 t | -4.2% |
| 1989 | 23,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 22,000 t | -4.3% |
| 1991 | 22,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 22,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 22,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 22,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 22,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 22,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 22,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1998 | 22,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 21,939 t | -0.3% |
| 2000 | 21,825 t | -0.5% |
| 2001 | 18,519 t | -15.2% |
| 2002 | 17,482 t | -5.6% |
| 2003 | 14,175 t | -18.9% |
| 2004 | 14,061 t | -0.8% |
| 2005 | 14,000 t | -0.4% |
| 2006 | 14,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 14,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 14,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 14,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 14,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 14,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 14,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 14,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 14,014 t | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 14,124 t | +0.8% |
| 2016 | 14,228 t | +0.7% |
| 2017 | 14,280 t | +0.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 22,700 t | 20,100 t | 25,500 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 21,005 t | 15,704 t | 22,200 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 23,110 t | 22,200 t | 24,000 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 21,994 t | 21,939 t | 22,000 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 15,606 t | 14,000 t | 21,825 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 14,081 t | 14,000 t | 14,280 t | 8 |
Countries ranked near France
- 22 Azerbaijan 14,730 t compare
- 23 Ireland 14,436 t compare
- 24 Saudi Arabia 14,368 t compare
- 26 Mongolia 14,112 t compare
- 27 Iraq 13,869 t compare
- 28 Afghanistan 12,910 t compare
More agriculture & rural data for France
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 14.99 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.014 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 687.36 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.033 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2115 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 1.4 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.4 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.1% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production in France?
- Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production in France was 14,280 t in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production recorded in France?
- The highest recorded value was 25,500 t in 1965.
- What is the lowest shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production recorded in France?
- The lowest recorded value was 14,000 t in 2005.
- How does France rank for shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production?
- France ranks 25th out of 100 countries with data for 2017.
- Is shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production rising or falling in France?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this France data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.