Silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling — 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
Silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling — Production is currently reported for 36 countries. The highest value is 260,000 t in India; the lowest is 0 t in Myanmar.
The median across all reporting countries is 116 t, and the mean is 18,985 t.
Over the past decade 14 countries rose and 16 fell. The largest increase was in Azerbaijan (up 33,329.0%), and the largest decrease in Poland (down 100.0%).
Silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 260,000 t | 2024 | up 47.3% | volatile |
| 2 | China | 147,002 t | 2024 | down 68.4% | volatile |
| 2 | Viet Nam | 15,884 t | 2024 | up 134.9% | volatile |
| 3 | China, mainland | 147,000 t | 2024 | down 68.4% | volatile |
| 3 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 2,581 t | 2024 | up 12.9% | volatile |
| 4 | USSR | 58,000 t | 1991 | up 13.7% | rising |
| 4 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 1,800 t | 2024 | up 203.6% | volatile |
| 5 | Uzbekistan | 30,066 t | 2024 | up 20.3% | rising |
| 6 | Romania | 14,000 t | 2017 | unchanged | volatile |
| 6 | Türkiye | 85 t | 2024 | up 6.2% | volatile |
| 7 | Thailand | 2,000 t | 2024 | down 59.4% | falling |
| 7 | Syrian Arab Republic | 0.73 t | 2024 | down 98.5% | volatile |
| 8 | Brazil | 1,581 t | 2024 | down 41.0% | volatile |
| 9 | Tajikistan | 1,414 t | 2024 | down 1.0% | rising |
| 10 | Afghanistan | 500 t | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 11 | Kyrgyzstan | 343.04 t | 2024 | down 3.9% | volatile |
| 12 | Azerbaijan | 334.29 t | 2024 | up 33,329.0% | volatile |
| 13 | Cambodia | 278.23 t | 2024 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 14 | Yugoslav SFR | 153 t | 1991 | down 10.0% | volatile |
| 15 | Spain | 147 t | 1990 | up 22.5% | volatile |
| 16 | Italy | 60.23 t | 2017 | up 2.1% | volatile |
| 17 | Madagascar | 57 t | 2024 | down 43.0% | volatile |
| 18 | Lebanon | 38 t | 1990 | up 26.7% | volatile |
| 18 | Japan | 38 t | 2024 | down 74.5% | volatile |
| 20 | Indonesia | 23 t | 2024 | down 66.9% | volatile |
| 21 | Bulgaria | 18.31 t | 2017 | down 56.1% | volatile |
| 22 | Greece | 15 t | 2017 | unchanged | volatile |
| 23 | Republic of Korea | 10.48 t | 2024 | up 74.7% | volatile |
| 24 | Egypt | 7.43 t | 2024 | up 26.8% | volatile |
| 25 | Nepal | 4 t | 2024 | down 89.4% | falling |
| 26 | China, Taiwan Province of | 2.02 t | 2024 | down 0.5% | volatile |
| 27 | Hungary | 0 t | 1990 | — | volatile |
| 27 | Djibouti | 0 t | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 27 | France | 0 t | 1999 | — | volatile |
| 27 | Poland | 0 t | 2004 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 27 | Myanmar | 0 t | 1997 | 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 464,010 t
- Asia 462,364 t
- Southern Asia 262,304 t
- Eastern Asia 149,632 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 34,966 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 32,661 t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 839.23 t
- Central Asia 31,823 t
- South-Eastern Asia 18,185 t
- European Union (27) 14,094 t
- Europe 14,094 t
- Eastern Europe 14,018 t
- South America 1,581 t
- Americas 1,581 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 846.66 t
- Western Asia 420.03 t
- Southern Europe 75.23 t
- Africa 64.43 t
- Eastern Africa 57 t
- Northern Africa 7.43 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.