Tallow — 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
1.08 million t
Brazil
Lowest
19.2 t
Zambia
Median
7,900 t
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
5,612

What the numbers show

Tallow — Production is currently reported for 75 countries. The highest value is 1.08 million t in Brazil; the lowest is 19.2 t in Zambia.

The median across all reporting countries is 7,900 t, and the mean is 74,515 t.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 56,378.

Over the past decade 48 countries rose and 26 fell. The largest increase was in Estonia (up 1,796.5%), and the largest decrease in Malaysia (down 95.7%).

Tallow — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Brazil 1.08 million t 2023 up 65.0% volatile
2 Australia and New Zealand 773,200 t 2023 up 7.6% rising
3 Australia 592,600 t 2023 up 8.1% rising
4 USSR 355,000 t 1991 up 6.7% rising
5 Canada 318,100 t 2023 up 26.4% rising
6 Argentina 248,600 t 2023 up 42.5% rising
7 France 218,100 t 2023 up 14.2% rising
8 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 181,600 t 2023 up 32.1% flat
9 New Zealand 180,600 t 2023 up 5.8% rising
10 Mexico 178,700 t 2023 up 70.2% volatile
11 India 165,653 t 2023 up 58.9% rising
12 Spain 146,300 t 2023 up 72.9% volatile
13 China 134,403 t 2023 up 23.4% volatile
14 China, mainland 134,207 t 2023 up 23.5% volatile
15 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 101,800 t 2023 down 1.4% volatile
16 Uruguay 91,000 t 2023 up 59.4% volatile
17 Paraguay 82,000 t 2023 up 167.7% volatile
18 Germany 80,344 t 2023 up 100.9% falling
19 Ireland 74,100 t 2023 up 100.3% volatile
20 Belgium 36,800 t 2023 up 0.2% rising
21 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 32,042 t 2023 up 76.3% rising
22 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 29,955 t 2023 down 24.4% rising
23 Yugoslav SFR 29,334 t 1991 down 22.1% rising
24 Austria 23,484 t 2023 down 9.0% volatile
25 Serbia 23,236 t 2023 up 61.5% rising
26 Ukraine 22,500 t 2023 up 31.4% volatile
27 Romania 21,200 t 2023 up 186.6% rising
28 Poland 18,586 t 2023 up 116.1% falling
29 Belgium-Luxembourg 16,648 t 1999 down 19.9% rising
30 Russian Federation 16,344 t 2023 down 8.9% volatile
31 Italy 13,850 t 2023 up 1.2% falling
32 Finland 13,000 t 2023 up 21.5% rising
33 Greece 12,900 t 2023 down 41.7% falling
34 Switzerland 12,400 t 2023 up 30.5% rising
35 Colombia 11,319 t 2023 down 16.8% rising
36 Czechoslovakia 10,600 t 1992 down 24.3% rising
37 Norway 10,100 t 2023 up 32.9% volatile
38 Czechia 7,900 t 2023 up 68.1% falling
39 Peru 7,163 t 2023 up 1.9% rising
40 Belarus 6,630 t 2023 down 18.0% falling
41 Botswana 6,218 t 2023 up 69.8% volatile
42 Chile 5,979 t 2023 up 24.6% rising
43 Portugal 5,693 t 2023 up 110.9% falling
44 Costa Rica 5,091 t 2023 up 109.3% rising
45 Kenya 4,422 t 2023 down 43.9% rising
46 Cyprus 4,330 t 2023 down 12.2% volatile
47 Serbia and Montenegro 4,000 t 2005 down 20.0% falling
48 Croatia 3,800 t 2023 up 46.2% falling
49 Lithuania 3,700 t 2023 down 38.3% falling
50 Slovenia 3,500 t 2023 up 12.0% rising
51 Namibia 3,152 t 2023 up 24.9% rising
52 Honduras 3,070 t 2023 up 4.0% rising
53 Mongolia 3,011 t 2023 down 18.9% volatile
54 Slovakia 2,400 t 2023 up 118.2% falling
55 Denmark 1,871 t 2023 up 577.2% volatile
56 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,800 t 2023 up 125.0% volatile
57 Latvia 1,600 t 2023 up 11.1% volatile
58 Hungary 1,432 t 2023 down 72.7% volatile
59 Republic of Moldova 1,300 t 2023 up 30.0% rising
60 Sweden 1,226 t 2023 down 82.5% falling
61 Cambodia 1,210 t 2023 down 16.0% volatile
62 Estonia 1,100 t 2023 up 1,796.5% volatile
63 Bulgaria 711.28 t 2023 down 56.0% volatile
64 Viet Nam 624.67 t 2023 down 61.3% falling
65 El Salvador 531.44 t 2023 up 30.4% falling
66 North Macedonia 500 t 2023 up 11.5% falling
67 Luxembourg 450.73 t 2023 down 39.5% falling
68 Malta 447.65 t 2023 up 28.6% falling
69 Iceland 255.13 t 2023 up 3.2% falling
70 China, Hong Kong SAR 196.23 t 2023 down 36.6% volatile
71 Madagascar 76.16 t 2023 down 28.2% volatile
72 Vanuatu 63.91 t 2023 down 39.4% volatile
72 Melanesia 63.91 t 2023 down 39.4% volatile
74 Malaysia 38.52 t 2023 down 95.7% rising
75 Zambia 19.2 t 2009 unchanged volatile

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
Tallow — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
102 places, 5,612 data points, 1961–2023
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.