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...
What the numbers show
Sunflower-seed oil, crude — Production is currently reported for 95 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 17,100 t, and the mean is 267,847 t.
Over the past decade 55 countries rose and 35 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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian Federation | 7.04 million t | 2023 | up 111.5% | volatile |
| 2 | Ukraine | 6.04 million t | 2023 | up 77.6% | volatile |
| 2 | Türkiye | 900,600 t | 2023 | up 20.8% | volatile |
| 3 | USSR | 2.11 million t | 1991 | up 34.5% | flat |
| 4 | Argentina | 1.71 million t | 2023 | up 59.1% | volatile |
| 4 | United Republic of Tanzania | 326,900 t | 2023 | up 48.9% | volatile |
| 5 | Hungary | 765,400 t | 2023 | up 54.6% | volatile |
| 5 | Republic of Moldova | 245,857 t | 2023 | up 323.9% | volatile |
| 6 | Bulgaria | 683,000 t | 2023 | up 245.4% | volatile |
| 6 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 118,900 t | 2023 | up 98.5% | volatile |
| 7 | France | 619,600 t | 2023 | down 5.0% | volatile |
| 7 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 40,000 t | 2023 | up 379.5% | volatile |
| 8 | Romania | 567,500 t | 2023 | up 69.8% | rising |
| 8 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 4,011 t | 2023 | down 86.1% | volatile |
| 9 | Kazakhstan | 537,125 t | 2023 | up 160.7% | volatile |
| 10 | Spain | 481,200 t | 2023 | up 9.1% | volatile |
| 10 | Syrian Arab Republic | 2,600 t | 2023 | down 62.3% | volatile |
| 11 | China | 322,900 t | 2023 | down 41.6% | volatile |
| 11 | China, mainland | 322,900 t | 2023 | down 41.6% | volatile |
| 13 | South Africa | 252,700 t | 2023 | up 14.2% | volatile |
| 14 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 223,700 t | 2023 | down 2.5% | volatile |
| 15 | Serbia | 204,308 t | 2023 | up 17.8% | rising |
| 16 | Yugoslav SFR | 151,600 t | 1991 | up 29.6% | rising |
| 17 | Italy | 145,500 t | 2023 | up 12.5% | volatile |
| 18 | Serbia and Montenegro | 141,900 t | 2005 | up 34.4% | flat |
| 19 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 106,300 t | 1999 | down 4.0% | volatile |
| 20 | Czechia | 95,300 t | 2023 | up 195.0% | volatile |
| 21 | Uganda | 92,100 t | 2023 | up 14.7% | volatile |
| 22 | Uzbekistan | 84,274 t | 2023 | up 278.8% | volatile |
| 23 | Greece | 83,200 t | 2023 | up 36.4% | volatile |
| 24 | Germany | 82,900 t | 2023 | down 39.9% | volatile |
| 25 | Portugal | 82,000 t | 2023 | down 20.8% | volatile |
| 26 | Sudan (former) | 74,576 t | 2009 | up 2,953.0% | volatile |
| 27 | Austria | 63,500 t | 2023 | up 42.4% | volatile |
| 28 | India | 58,000 t | 2023 | down 65.1% | volatile |
| 29 | Pakistan | 55,300 t | 2023 | down 72.1% | volatile |
| 30 | Belgium | 42,100 t | 2023 | up 679.6% | volatile |
| 31 | Sudan | 37,600 t | 2023 | up 46.8% | rising |
| 32 | Myanmar | 35,200 t | 2023 | up 3.8% | volatile |
| 33 | Croatia | 34,900 t | 2023 | up 36.4% | rising |
| 34 | Canada | 32,600 t | 2023 | up 45.5% | volatile |
| 35 | Brazil | 32,000 t | 2023 | down 28.3% | volatile |
| 36 | Czechoslovakia | 31,100 t | 1992 | down 30.4% | rising |
| 37 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 30,400 t | 2023 | up 42.8% | volatile |
| 38 | Zambia | 28,600 t | 2023 | up 236.5% | volatile |
| 39 | Azerbaijan | 27,407 t | 2023 | down 13.0% | volatile |
| 40 | Iraq | 26,056 t | 2023 | up 773.8% | volatile |
| 41 | Poland | 24,600 t | 2023 | up 25.0% | volatile |
| 42 | Belarus | 18,900 t | 2023 | up 2,262.5% | volatile |
| 43 | Paraguay | 17,100 t | 2023 | down 54.8% | volatile |
| 44 | South Sudan | 15,800 t | 2018 | down 57.2% | falling |
| 45 | Morocco | 15,600 t | 2023 | up 35.7% | volatile |
| 46 | Australia | 15,300 t | 2023 | down 22.7% | volatile |
| 46 | Australia and New Zealand | 15,300 t | 2023 | down 22.7% | volatile |
| 48 | Thailand | 14,200 t | 2023 | up 35.2% | rising |
| 49 | Slovakia | 13,700 t | 2023 | down 22.2% | volatile |
| 50 | Mexico | 12,900 t | 2023 | up 111.5% | volatile |
| 51 | Malawi | 7,300 t | 2023 | up 195.4% | volatile |
| 52 | Tajikistan | 7,000 t | 2023 | up 118.8% | volatile |
| 53 | Israel | 6,300 t | 2023 | up 57.5% | volatile |
| 54 | Mozambique | 6,200 t | 2023 | up 168.9% | volatile |
| 55 | Sweden | 6,182 t | 2023 | up 13.8% | volatile |
| 56 | Switzerland | 6,032 t | 2023 | up 18.3% | volatile |
| 57 | Zimbabwe | 4,200 t | 2023 | down 19.2% | volatile |
| 58 | Indonesia | 4,053 t | 2023 | up 48.5% | volatile |
| 59 | Finland | 3,900 t | 2023 | down 26.4% | volatile |
| 60 | Angola | 3,833 t | 2023 | up 2.9% | rising |
| 61 | Egypt | 3,400 t | 2023 | down 82.4% | volatile |
| 61 | Uruguay | 3,400 t | 2023 | up 70.0% | volatile |
| 63 | Tunisia | 3,248 t | 2023 | down 5.7% | volatile |
| 64 | North Macedonia | 2,900 t | 2023 | up 70.6% | volatile |
| 65 | Chile | 2,600 t | 2023 | up 62.5% | volatile |
| 66 | Jordan | 2,300 t | 2023 | down 32.4% | falling |
| 67 | Algeria | 2,200 t | 2023 | up 1,000.0% | volatile |
| 68 | Lebanon | 2,100 t | 2023 | up 200.0% | volatile |
| 69 | Georgia | 2,010 t | 2023 | down 74.9% | volatile |
| 70 | Kenya | 2,000 t | 2023 | down 61.5% | volatile |
| 71 | Afghanistan | 1,878 t | 2023 | up 1,263.8% | falling |
| 72 | Malaysia | 902.26 t | 2023 | up 15.2% | volatile |
| 73 | Latvia | 700 t | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 74 | Estonia | 600 t | 2023 | unchanged | falling |
| 75 | Albania | 300 t | 2023 | down 38.8% | volatile |
| 76 | Colombia | 230.28 t | 2023 | down 54.2% | volatile |
| 77 | Luxembourg | 130.69 t | 2022 | down 15.7% | volatile |
| 78 | Kyrgyzstan | 119.08 t | 2023 | down 87.6% | volatile |
| 79 | Namibia | 102.48 t | 2023 | up 62.3% | volatile |
| 80 | Armenia | 76.29 t | 2023 | down 88.6% | volatile |
| 81 | Denmark | 24.63 t | 2023 | up 174.3% | volatile |
| 82 | Panama | 9.64 t | 2023 | — | falling |
| 83 | Lithuania | 5 t | 2018 | down 99.6% | volatile |
| 84 | Botswana | 0 t | 2013 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 84 | Japan | 0 t | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 84 | Norway | 0 t | 2010 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 84 | Turkmenistan | 0 t | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 84 | 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.
- World 22.66 million t
- Asia 2.13 million t
- Europe 17.61 million t
- Eastern Europe 15.50 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 539,611 t
- European Union (27) 4.02 million t
- Americas 2.11 million t
- South America 1.89 million t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 1.17 million t
- Southern Europe 1.06 million t
- Western Europe 1.04 million t
- Middle Africa 3,833 t
- Western Asia 969,449 t
- Africa 785,984 t
- Central Asia 628,518 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 625,573 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 572,171 t
- Eastern Africa 467,300 t
- Eastern Asia 322,900 t
- Southern Africa 252,802 t
- Northern America 211,600 t
- United States of America 179,000 t
- Southern Asia 155,178 t
- Northern Africa 62,048 t
- South-Eastern Asia 54,355 t
- Oceania 15,300 t
- Central America 12,910 t
- Northern Europe 11,406 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.