Soya beans — 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
Soya beans — Production is currently reported for 115 countries. The highest value is 144.47 million t in Brazil; the lowest is 0 t in French Guiana.
The median across all reporting countries is 36,705 t, and the mean is 2.62 million t.
Over the past decade 69 countries rose and 38 fell. The largest increase was in Uzbekistan (up 5,333.6%), and the largest decrease in Chile (down 100.0%).
Soya beans — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brazil | 144.47 million t | 2024 | up 66.5% | volatile |
| 2 | Argentina | 48.21 million t | 2024 | down 9.7% | volatile |
| 2 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 3.22 million t | 2024 | up 14.3% | volatile |
| 3 | China | 20.66 million t | 2024 | up 69.9% | rising |
| 4 | China, mainland | 20.65 million t | 2024 | up 69.9% | rising |
| 4 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 200,000 t | 2024 | up 40.3% | volatile |
| 5 | India | 15.13 million t | 2024 | up 45.9% | volatile |
| 6 | Paraguay | 11.10 million t | 2024 | up 11.3% | volatile |
| 6 | Türkiye | 180,000 t | 2024 | up 20.0% | volatile |
| 6 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 180,000 t | 2024 | down 48.6% | rising |
| 7 | Canada | 7.57 million t | 2024 | up 25.2% | volatile |
| 8 | Russian Federation | 7.00 million t | 2024 | up 196.2% | volatile |
| 8 | Viet Nam | 46,127 t | 2024 | down 70.5% | volatile |
| 9 | Ukraine | 6.64 million t | 2024 | up 70.9% | volatile |
| 9 | United Republic of Tanzania | 42,738 t | 2024 | up 609.3% | volatile |
| 10 | Uruguay | 3.06 million t | 2024 | down 3.1% | volatile |
| 10 | Republic of Moldova | 31,555 t | 2024 | down 71.1% | volatile |
| 11 | South Africa | 1.85 million t | 2024 | up 94.9% | volatile |
| 11 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 28,401 t | 2024 | up 35.6% | volatile |
| 12 | Nigeria | 1.15 million t | 2024 | up 84.3% | volatile |
| 13 | Italy | 1.13 million t | 2024 | up 20.6% | volatile |
| 13 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 11,057 t | 2024 | up 139.3% | volatile |
| 14 | USSR | 814,000 t | 1991 | up 65.8% | rising |
| 14 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 7,879 t | 2024 | down 53.7% | volatile |
| 15 | Benin | 652,454 t | 2024 | up 554.2% | volatile |
| 15 | Syrian Arab Republic | 3,610 t | 2024 | up 1,091.4% | volatile |
| 16 | France | 398,540 t | 2024 | up 75.4% | volatile |
| 16 | Timor-Leste | 860.62 t | 2024 | down 12.6% | falling |
| 17 | Serbia and Montenegro | 368,023 t | 2005 | up 243.1% | rising |
| 17 | Polynesia | 11.47 t | 2024 | down 50.1% | falling |
| 18 | Serbia | 346,808 t | 2024 | down 36.5% | rising |
| 19 | Romania | 316,760 t | 2024 | up 56.1% | volatile |
| 20 | Malawi | 305,000 t | 2024 | up 130.7% | volatile |
| 21 | Togo | 284,342 t | 2024 | up 1,430.0% | volatile |
| 22 | Ghana | 270,000 t | 2024 | up 90.9% | rising |
| 23 | Mexico | 265,333 t | 2024 | down 31.5% | volatile |
| 24 | Hungary | 258,890 t | 2024 | up 124.0% | volatile |
| 25 | Croatia | 255,080 t | 2024 | up 94.1% | volatile |
| 26 | Japan | 252,400 t | 2024 | up 8.9% | rising |
| 27 | Austria | 249,130 t | 2024 | up 110.9% | volatile |
| 27 | Côte d'Ivoire | 572.17 t | 2024 | up 40.5% | volatile |
| 28 | Ethiopia | 240,000 t | 2024 | up 140.2% | volatile |
| 29 | Colombia | 235,454 t | 2024 | up 161.2% | rising |
| 30 | Indonesia | 227,367 t | 2024 | down 76.2% | volatile |
| 31 | Kazakhstan | 207,503 t | 2024 | down 4.8% | volatile |
| 32 | Yugoslav SFR | 187,900 t | 1991 | up 103.6% | volatile |
| 33 | Zambia | 169,700 t | 2024 | down 20.8% | volatile |
| 34 | Uganda | 155,000 t | 2024 | up 455.0% | volatile |
| 35 | Republic of Korea | 154,954 t | 2024 | up 11.3% | falling |
| 36 | Slovakia | 152,740 t | 2024 | up 82.0% | volatile |
| 37 | Myanmar | 140,000 t | 2024 | down 10.5% | volatile |
| 38 | Burkina Faso | 138,052 t | 2024 | up 817.0% | volatile |
| 39 | Germany | 131,800 t | 2024 | up 632.2% | volatile |
| 40 | Cameroon | 116,690 t | 2024 | up 799.3% | volatile |
| 41 | Bangladesh | 106,833 t | 2024 | down 4.6% | rising |
| 42 | Poland | 80,960 t | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Egypt | 75,000 t | 2024 | up 88.1% | volatile |
| 44 | Czechia | 73,670 t | 2024 | up 346.7% | volatile |
| 45 | Mozambique | 70,000 t | 2024 | up 27.3% | rising |
| 46 | Zimbabwe | 69,291 t | 2024 | down 2.9% | volatile |
| 47 | Australia | 65,300 t | 2024 | up 104.4% | volatile |
| 47 | Australia and New Zealand | 65,300 t | 2024 | up 104.4% | volatile |
| 49 | Cambodia | 51,000 t | 2024 | down 51.1% | volatile |
| 50 | Angola | 46,857 t | 2024 | up 240.5% | volatile |
| 51 | Guatemala | 45,000 t | 2024 | up 18.4% | volatile |
| 52 | Rwanda | 36,705 t | 2024 | up 105.0% | volatile |
| 53 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 31,579 t | 2024 | up 250.1% | volatile |
| 54 | Nepal | 28,520 t | 2024 | up 1.0% | volatile |
| 55 | Belize | 26,404 t | 2024 | up 581.0% | volatile |
| 56 | Ecuador | 24,711 t | 2024 | down 24.4% | volatile |
| 57 | Mali | 22,814 t | 2024 | up 948.9% | volatile |
| 58 | Ethiopia PDR | 21,000 t | 1992 | up 72.1% | rising |
| 59 | Kenya | 17,417 t | 2024 | up 635.5% | volatile |
| 60 | Thailand | 16,347 t | 2024 | down 72.0% | volatile |
| 61 | Czechoslovakia | 14,928 t | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 62 | Uzbekistan | 12,606 t | 2024 | up 5,333.6% | volatile |
| 63 | Slovenia | 11,640 t | 2024 | up 1,012.8% | volatile |
| 64 | Spain | 10,940 t | 2024 | up 312.8% | volatile |
| 65 | Nicaragua | 10,000 t | 2023 | up 40.9% | volatile |
| 66 | Switzerland | 7,479 t | 2024 | up 92.7% | volatile |
| 67 | Sri Lanka | 6,196 t | 2024 | down 8.7% | volatile |
| 68 | El Salvador | 5,380 t | 2024 | up 8.6% | volatile |
| 69 | China, Taiwan Province of | 5,000 t | 2024 | up 326.3% | volatile |
| 70 | Gabon | 4,015 t | 2024 | down 5.3% | volatile |
| 71 | Liberia | 3,426 t | 2024 | up 1.9% | rising |
| 72 | Kyrgyzstan | 2,549 t | 2024 | up 321.3% | volatile |
| 73 | Greece | 2,490 t | 2024 | down 68.3% | volatile |
| 74 | Peru | 2,230 t | 2024 | up 5.3% | volatile |
| 75 | Honduras | 2,193 t | 2024 | down 0.3% | volatile |
| 76 | Burundi | 2,165 t | 2024 | down 40.6% | volatile |
| 77 | Lithuania | 2,040 t | 2024 | down 40.9% | falling |
| 78 | Georgia | 2,000 t | 2024 | down 0.8% | volatile |
| 79 | Morocco | 1,000 t | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 80 | Albania | 813.2 t | 2024 | up 132.3% | volatile |
| 81 | Bulgaria | 630 t | 2024 | down 14.4% | volatile |
| 82 | Philippines | 505.74 t | 2024 | down 27.2% | volatile |
| 83 | Panama | 96.32 t | 2024 | down 6.3% | volatile |
| 84 | Bhutan | 79.65 t | 2024 | down 73.6% | volatile |
| 85 | North Macedonia | 55.29 t | 2024 | down 62.9% | volatile |
| 86 | Luxembourg | 50 t | 2024 | — | rising |
| 87 | Madagascar | 47.91 t | 2024 | up 2.4% | volatile |
| 88 | Iraq | 34.17 t | 2024 | up 36.1% | volatile |
| 89 | Azerbaijan | 29.73 t | 2024 | up 6.4% | volatile |
| 90 | Tajikistan | 20.75 t | 2024 | up 4.2% | volatile |
| 91 | French Polynesia | 11.47 t | 2024 | down 50.1% | falling |
| 92 | Pakistan | 3 t | 2024 | down 95.2% | volatile |
| 93 | Suriname | 2.35 t | 2024 | down 73.9% | volatile |
| 94 | Chile | 0 t | 1992 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 94 | Costa Rica | 0 t | 1993 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 94 | Guyana | 0 t | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 94 | Jordan | 0 t | 1995 | — | volatile |
| 94 | Malaysia | 0 t | 1991 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 94 | New Zealand | 0 t | 1992 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 94 | Senegal | 0 t | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 94 | French Guiana | 0 t | 1992 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 397.67 million t
- Asia 37.62 million t
- Americas 337.10 million t
- South America 210.34 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 2.55 million t
- Northern America 126.40 million t
- United States of America 118.84 million t
- Middle Africa 195,963 t
- Eastern Asia 21.24 million t
- Europe 17.12 million t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 15.75 million t
- Southern Asia 15.48 million t
- Eastern Europe 14.55 million t
- Africa 5.76 million t
- European Union (27) 3.07 million t
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 28,278 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 2.67 million t
- Western Africa 2.53 million t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 2.44 million t
- Southern Africa 1.85 million t
- Southern Europe 1.78 million t
- Eastern Africa 1.11 million t
- Western Europe 786,999 t
- South-Eastern Asia 490,087 t
- Central America 355,406 t
- Central Asia 222,679 t
- Western Asia 185,674 t
- Northern Africa 76,000 t
- Oceania 65,312 t
- Northern Europe 2,040 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.