Spinach — 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
75
Highest
28.34 million t
China
Lowest
0 t
Estonia
Median
6,642 t
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
5,096

What the numbers show

Spinach — Production is currently reported for 75 countries. The highest value is 28.34 million t in China; the lowest is 0 t in Estonia.

The median across all reporting countries is 6,642 t, and the mean is 784,857 t.

Over the past decade 42 countries rose and 29 fell. The largest increase was in Jordan (up 714.8%), and the largest decrease in Sweden (down 90.9%).

Spinach — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China 28.34 million t 2024 up 28.2% volatile
2 China, mainland 28.32 million t 2024 up 28.2% volatile
3 Kenya 242,720 t 2024 up 151.6% volatile
4 Türkiye 237,216 t 2024 up 14.2% rising
5 Japan 200,122 t 2024 down 22.3% falling
6 Indonesia 168,400 t 2024 up 25.5% volatile
7 Malaysia 122,680 t 2024 up 139.2% volatile
8 Italy 102,400 t 2024 up 5.9% falling
9 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 99,708 t 2024 up 47.6% volatile
10 Belgium 96,960 t 2024 down 9.5% rising
11 Pakistan 90,452 t 2024 down 11.8% volatile
12 Spain 89,820 t 2024 up 47.7% rising
13 France 81,560 t 2024 down 30.9% rising
14 Bangladesh 66,839 t 2024 up 51.9% volatile
15 Germany 65,720 t 2024 up 4.4% rising
16 Belgium-Luxembourg 58,060 t 1999 up 137.3% volatile
17 Republic of Korea 57,179 t 2024 down 32.1% volatile
18 Greece 52,930 t 2024 up 18.9% rising
19 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 38,380 t 2024 up 9.7% flat
20 Mexico 36,370 t 2024 up 38.3% volatile
21 Peru 31,874 t 2024 up 6.7% volatile
22 Egypt 29,682 t 2024 up 4.7% rising
23 Albania 25,515 t 2024 up 38.0% volatile
24 Chile 20,741 t 2024 up 70.7% rising
25 Caribbean 15,566 t 2024 up 0.9% volatile
26 Jamaica 14,524 t 2024 up 0.4% volatile
27 Austria 14,440 t 2024 up 21.9% volatile
28 Hungary 13,650 t 2024 up 109.4% volatile
29 China, Hong Kong SAR 12,807 t 2024 up 2.1% rising
30 Switzerland 10,753 t 2024 down 35.3% rising
31 Jordan 9,907 t 2024 up 714.8% volatile
32 Colombia 9,215 t 2024 up 12.3% volatile
33 Australia and New Zealand 8,439 t 2024 down 27.9% volatile
34 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 8,083 t 2024 up 29.4% rising
35 Czechoslovakia 7,683 t 1992 down 37.7% rising
36 Tunisia 7,413 t 2024 down 5.3% volatile
37 Poland 6,900 t 2024 down 7.6% falling
38 Australia 6,642 t 2024 down 34.0% volatile
39 Canada 6,567 t 2024 up 7.6% rising
40 Portugal 5,470 t 2024 down 54.5% volatile
41 Palestine 4,826 t 2022 up 26.9% rising
42 Czechia 4,730 t 2024 up 171.2% volatile
43 Iraq 3,378 t 2024 down 68.9% falling
44 United Arab Emirates 2,478 t 2024 up 5.4% volatile
45 Singapore 2,196 t 2024 up 6.2% rising
46 Lebanon 2,057 t 2024 down 47.5% volatile
47 New Zealand 1,797 t 2024 up 9.7% volatile
48 Ireland 1,700 t 2024 down 19.6% falling
49 Finland 1,030 t 2024 up 16.6% rising
50 Haiti 1,019 t 2024 up 7.2% rising
51 Congo 983.35 t 2024 down 1.1% falling
52 Brunei Darussalam 809.35 t 2024 up 5.7% rising
53 Cyprus 770 t 2024 down 23.8% volatile
53 Romania 770 t 2024 down 77.0% volatile
55 Botswana 749.35 t 2024 up 144.1% rising
56 Bulgaria 590 t 2024 down 65.3% volatile
57 Denmark 530 t 2024 up 27.1% volatile
58 Slovakia 520 t 2024 down 74.8% falling
59 Philippines 494.75 t 2024 down 27.1% rising
60 North Macedonia 221.43 t 2024 up 69.3% rising
61 Ukraine 200 t 2024 up 100.0% rising
62 Israel 195 t 2024 up 2.1% volatile
63 Kuwait 193.4 t 2024 down 83.6% volatile
64 Malta 190 t 2024 down 17.0% flat
65 Sweden 170 t 2024 down 90.9% volatile
66 Slovenia 160 t 2024 down 46.3% falling
67 Luxembourg 130 t 2024 volatile
68 Qatar 79.45 t 2024 down 77.9% volatile
69 Costa Rica 63.94 t 2024 up 3.4% rising
70 Antigua and Barbuda 22.92 t 2024 volatile
71 Lithuania 20 t 2024 down 66.7% volatile
72 China, Taiwan Province of 5 t 2009 unchanged volatile
73 French Polynesia 3.69 t 2024 down 38.5% falling
73 Polynesia 3.69 t 2024 down 38.5% falling
75 Estonia 0 t 2024 flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Spinach — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
103 places, 5,096 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.