Sunflower-seed oil, crude — 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
88
Highest
7.04 million t
Russian Federation
Lowest
0 t
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Median
15,700 t
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
6,336

What the numbers show

Sunflower-seed oil, crude — Production is currently reported for 88 countries. The highest value is 7.04 million t in Russian Federation; the lowest is 0 t in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The median across all reporting countries is 15,700 t, and the mean is 270,529 t.

Over the past decade 50 countries rose and 33 fell. The largest increase was in Sudan (former) (up 2,953.0%), and the largest decrease in Botswana (down 100.0%).

Sunflower-seed oil, crude — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Russian Federation 7.04 million t 2023 up 111.5% volatile
2 Ukraine 6.04 million t 2023 up 77.6% volatile
3 USSR 2.11 million t 1991 up 34.5% flat
4 Argentina 1.71 million t 2023 up 59.1% volatile
6 Hungary 765,400 t 2023 up 54.6% volatile
7 Bulgaria 683,000 t 2023 up 245.4% volatile
8 France 619,600 t 2023 down 5.0% volatile
9 Romania 567,500 t 2023 up 69.8% rising
10 Kazakhstan 537,125 t 2023 up 160.7% volatile
11 Spain 481,200 t 2023 up 9.1% volatile
13 China (People's Republic of) 322,900 t 2023 down 41.6% volatile
13 China, mainland 322,900 t 2023 down 41.6% volatile
16 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 223,700 t 2023 down 2.5% volatile
17 Serbia 204,308 t 2023 up 17.8% rising
18 Yugoslav SFR 151,600 t 1991 up 29.6% rising
19 Italy 145,500 t 2023 up 12.5% volatile
20 South Africa 252,700 t 2023 up 14.2% volatile
20 Serbia and Montenegro 141,900 t 2005 up 34.4% flat
22 Belgium-Luxembourg 106,300 t 1999 down 4.0% volatile
23 Czechia 95,300 t 2023 up 195.0% volatile
24 Uganda 92,100 t 2023 up 14.7% volatile
25 Uzbekistan 84,274 t 2023 up 278.8% volatile
26 Greece 83,200 t 2023 up 36.4% volatile
27 Germany 82,900 t 2023 down 39.9% volatile
28 Portugal 82,000 t 2023 down 20.8% volatile
29 Sudan (former) 74,576 t 2009 up 2,953.0% volatile
30 Austria 63,500 t 2023 up 42.4% volatile
31 India 58,000 t 2023 down 65.1% volatile
32 Pakistan 55,300 t 2023 down 72.1% volatile
33 Belgium 42,100 t 2023 up 679.6% volatile
35 Sudan 37,600 t 2023 up 46.8% rising
36 Myanmar 35,200 t 2023 up 3.8% volatile
37 Croatia 34,900 t 2023 up 36.4% rising
38 Canada 32,600 t 2023 up 45.5% volatile
39 Brazil 32,000 t 2023 down 28.3% volatile
40 Czechoslovakia 31,100 t 1992 down 30.4% rising
41 Bosnia and Herzegovina 30,400 t 2023 up 42.8% volatile
42 Zambia 28,600 t 2023 up 236.5% volatile
43 Azerbaijan 27,407 t 2023 down 13.0% volatile
44 Iraq 26,056 t 2023 up 773.8% volatile
45 Poland 24,600 t 2023 up 25.0% volatile
46 Belarus 18,900 t 2023 up 2,262.5% volatile
47 Paraguay 17,100 t 2023 down 54.8% volatile
48 South Sudan 15,800 t 2018 down 57.2% falling
49 Morocco 15,600 t 2023 up 35.7% volatile
50 Australia 15,300 t 2023 down 22.7% volatile
50 Australia and New Zealand 15,300 t 2023 down 22.7% volatile
52 Thailand 14,200 t 2023 up 35.2% rising
53 Slovak Republic 13,700 t 2023 down 22.2% volatile
54 Mexico 12,900 t 2023 up 111.5% volatile
55 Malawi 7,300 t 2023 up 195.4% volatile
56 Tajikistan 7,000 t 2023 up 118.8% volatile
57 Israel 6,300 t 2023 up 57.5% volatile
58 Mozambique 6,200 t 2023 up 168.9% volatile
59 Sweden 6,182 t 2023 up 13.8% volatile
60 Switzerland 6,032 t 2023 up 18.3% volatile
61 Zimbabwe 4,200 t 2023 down 19.2% volatile
62 Indonesia 4,053 t 2023 up 48.5% volatile
64 Finland 3,900 t 2023 down 26.4% volatile
65 Angola 3,833 t 2023 up 2.9% rising
66 Egypt 3,400 t 2023 down 82.4% volatile
66 Uruguay 3,400 t 2023 up 70.0% volatile
68 Tunisia 3,248 t 2023 down 5.7% volatile
69 North Macedonia 2,900 t 2023 up 70.6% volatile
70 Chile 2,600 t 2023 up 62.5% volatile
72 Jordan 2,300 t 2023 down 32.4% falling
73 Algeria 2,200 t 2023 up 1,000.0% volatile
74 Lebanon 2,100 t 2023 up 200.0% volatile
75 Georgia 2,010 t 2023 down 74.9% volatile
76 Kenya 2,000 t 2023 down 61.5% volatile
77 Afghanistan 1,878 t 2023 up 1,263.8% falling
78 Malaysia 902.26 t 2023 up 15.2% volatile
79 Latvia 700 t 2023 volatile
80 Estonia 600 t 2023 unchanged falling
81 Albania 300 t 2023 down 38.8% volatile
82 Colombia 230.28 t 2023 down 54.2% volatile
83 Luxembourg 130.69 t 2022 down 15.7% volatile
84 Kyrgyzstan 119.08 t 2023 down 87.6% volatile
85 Namibia 102.48 t 2023 up 62.3% volatile
86 Armenia 76.29 t 2023 down 88.6% volatile
87 Denmark 24.63 t 2023 up 174.3% volatile
88 Panama 9.64 t 2023 falling
89 Lithuania 5 t 2018 down 99.6% volatile
90 Botswana 0 t 2013 down 100.0% volatile
90 Japan 0 t 2023 down 100.0% volatile
90 Norway 0 t 2010 down 100.0% volatile
90 Turkmenistan 0 t 2023 volatile
90 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0 t 2018 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
Sunflower-seed oil, crude — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
123 places, 6,336 data points, 1961–2023
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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.