Silk — Production by country
Food Balance Sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply...
What the numbers show
Silk — Production is currently reported for 35 countries. The highest value is 506,000 t in China, mainland; the lowest is 0 t in Myanmar.
The median across all reporting countries is 150 t, and the mean is 23,004 t.
Over the past decade 12 countries rose and 17 fell. The largest increase was in Romania (up 240.4%), and the largest decrease in France (down 100.0%).
Silk — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China, mainland | 506,000 t | 2013 | up 37.0% | volatile |
| 2 | India | 174,679 t | 2013 | up 68.1% | volatile |
| 3 | USSR | 62,100 t | 1991 | up 13.6% | rising |
| 3 | Viet Nam | 8,800 t | 2013 | down 39.7% | volatile |
| 4 | Uzbekistan | 27,655 t | 2013 | up 54.6% | rising |
| 4 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 4,200 t | 2013 | down 31.3% | rising |
| 5 | Thailand | 6,200 t | 2013 | up 13.5% | volatile |
| 5 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 1,300 t | 2013 | down 21.6% | volatile |
| 6 | Turkmenistan | 4,700 t | 2013 | unchanged | rising |
| 7 | Brazil | 3,150 t | 2013 | down 74.2% | volatile |
| 8 | Romania | 2,900 t | 2013 | up 240.4% | volatile |
| 9 | Tajikistan | 1,000 t | 2013 | up 10.0% | flat |
| 10 | Afghanistan | 750 t | 2013 | up 29.5% | rising |
| 11 | Japan | 418 t | 2013 | down 60.3% | volatile |
| 12 | Yugoslav SFR | 225 t | 1991 | up 5.6% | volatile |
| 13 | Cambodia | 197 t | 2013 | down 39.4% | rising |
| 14 | T�rkiye | 176 t | 2013 | down 21.4% | volatile |
| 15 | Kyrgyzstan | 150 t | 2013 | down 21.9% | volatile |
| 16 | Indonesia | 120 t | 2013 | unchanged | volatile |
| 17 | Egypt | 118 t | 2013 | up 42.2% | rising |
| 18 | Spain | 95 t | 2013 | down 34.5% | volatile |
| 19 | Italy | 52 t | 2013 | down 18.8% | volatile |
| 20 | Madagascar | 49 t | 2013 | up 22.5% | volatile |
| 21 | Lebanon | 40 t | 2013 | down 13.0% | volatile |
| 22 | Nepal | 38 t | 2013 | up 8.6% | volatile |
| 23 | Bulgaria | 25 t | 2013 | down 40.5% | volatile |
| 24 | China, Taiwan Province of | 3 t | 2013 | down 25.0% | volatile |
| 24 | Republic of Korea | 3 t | 2013 | down 50.0% | volatile |
| 26 | Azerbaijan | 1 t | 2013 | down 99.0% | volatile |
| 27 | France | 0 t | 2013 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 27 | Greece | 0 t | 2013 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 27 | Hungary | 0 t | 2013 | — | volatile |
| 27 | Poland | 0 t | 2013 | — | volatile |
| 27 | Djibouti | 0 t | 2013 | — | volatile |
| 27 | Myanmar | 0 t | 2013 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 742,819 t
- Asia 736,430 t
- Eastern Asia 507,724 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries 34,294 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries 205,621 t
- Southern Asia 179,667 t
- Central Asia 33,505 t
- South-Eastern Asia 15,317 t
- Americas 3,150 t
- South America 3,150 t
- Europe 3,072 t
- Eastern Europe 2,925 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries 1,152 t
- Least developed countries 1,034 t
- Western Asia 217 t
- Africa 167 t
- Southern Europe 147 t
- Northern Africa 118 t
- Eastern Africa 49 t
- Western Europe 0 t
About this data
Food Balance Sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per caput supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it. Data on per caput food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.