Silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling β€” 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
36
Highest
260,000 t
India
Lowest
0 t
Poland
Median
116 t
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
3,034

What the numbers show

Silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling β€” Production is currently reported for 36 countries. The highest value is 260,000 t in India; the lowest is 0 t in Poland.

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 Myanmar (down 100.0%).

Silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling β€” Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 India 260,000 t 2024 up 47.3% volatile
2 China 147,002 t 2024 down 68.4% volatile
3 China, mainland 147,000 t 2024 down 68.4% volatile
4 USSR 58,000 t 1991 up 13.7% rising
5 Uzbekistan 30,066 t 2024 up 20.3% rising
6 Viet Nam 15,884 t 2024 up 134.9% volatile
7 Romania 14,000 t 2017 unchanged volatile
8 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 2,581 t 2024 up 12.9% volatile
9 Thailand 2,000 t 2024 down 59.4% falling
10 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 1,800 t 2024 up 203.6% volatile
11 Brazil 1,581 t 2024 down 41.0% volatile
12 Tajikistan 1,414 t 2024 down 1.0% rising
13 Afghanistan 500 t 2024 unchanged flat
14 Kyrgyzstan 343.04 t 2024 down 3.9% volatile
15 Azerbaijan 334.29 t 2024 up 33,329.0% volatile
16 Cambodia 278.23 t 2024 up 0.1% rising
17 Yugoslav SFR 153 t 1991 down 10.0% volatile
18 Spain 147 t 1990 up 22.5% volatile
19 TΓΌrkiye 85 t 2024 up 6.2% volatile
20 Italy 60.23 t 2017 up 2.1% volatile
21 Madagascar 57 t 2024 down 43.0% volatile
22 Japan 38 t 2024 down 74.5% volatile
22 Lebanon 38 t 1990 up 26.7% volatile
24 Indonesia 23 t 2024 down 66.9% volatile
25 Bulgaria 18.31 t 2017 down 56.1% volatile
26 Greece 15 t 2017 unchanged volatile
27 Republic of Korea 10.48 t 2024 up 74.7% volatile
28 Egypt 7.43 t 2024 up 26.8% volatile
29 Nepal 4 t 2024 down 89.4% falling
30 China, Taiwan Province of 2.02 t 2024 down 0.5% volatile
31 Syrian Arab Republic 0.73 t 2024 down 98.5% volatile
32 Myanmar 0 t 1997 down 100.0% volatile
32 Hungary 0 t 1990 β€” volatile
32 France 0 t 1999 β€” volatile
32 Djibouti 0 t 1992 β€” volatile
32 Poland 0 t 2004 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.

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Indicator
Silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling β€” Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
57 places, 3,034 data points, 1961–2024
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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.