Silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling — Production in Nepal
Nepal: Silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling — Production was 4 t in 2024. ▼ Falling
Silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling — Production in Nepal, 2000–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Nepal recorded 4 t for silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling — production in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 24 years on record.
That represents a change of down 89.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling — production in Nepal peaked at 55 t in 2017 and was at its lowest, 4 t, in 2023.
Nepal ranks 25th of 31 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 24 years of available data.
Silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling — Production in Nepal, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 26 t | — |
| 2001 | 31 t | +19.2% |
| 2003 | 35 t | +12.9% |
| 2004 | 33 t | -5.7% |
| 2005 | 31 t | -6.1% |
| 2006 | 33 t | +6.5% |
| 2007 | 23 t | -30.3% |
| 2008 | 26 t | +13.0% |
| 2009 | 26 t | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 29 t | +11.5% |
| 2011 | 30 t | +3.4% |
| 2012 | 31 t | +3.3% |
| 2013 | 31.4 t | +1.3% |
| 2014 | 37.6 t | +19.7% |
| 2015 | 38.5 t | +2.4% |
| 2016 | 52 t | +35.1% |
| 2017 | 55 t | +5.8% |
| 2018 | 30 t | -45.5% |
| 2019 | 32 t | +6.7% |
| 2020 | 35 t | +9.4% |
| 2021 | 39 t | +11.4% |
| 2022 | 41 t | +5.1% |
| 2023 | 4 t | -90.2% |
| 2024 | 4 t | +0.0% |
Nepal compared with similar countries
- Nepal's 4 t is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 158.12 t, 3% of the median. (10 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling — Production in Nepal changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | -90.2% | 41 t | 4 t |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 29.33 t | 23 t | 35 t | 9 |
| 2010s | 36.65 t | 29 t | 55 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 24.6 t | 4 t | 41 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Nepal
More agriculture & rural data for Nepal
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 4.5 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2156 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 331.1 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.7937 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.33 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 21.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 21.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.6% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2022)
Frequently asked questions
- What is silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling — production in Nepal?
- Silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling — production in Nepal was 4 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling — production recorded in Nepal?
- The highest recorded value was 55 t in 2017.
- What is the lowest silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling — production recorded in Nepal?
- The lowest recorded value was 4 t in 2023.
- How does Nepal rank for silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling — production?
- Nepal ranks 25th out of 31 countries with data for 2024.
- Is silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling — production rising or falling in Nepal?
- Over the last ten years it is down 89.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Nepal data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling — Production. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.