True hemp, raw or retted — 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
34
Highest
135,530 t
France
Lowest
0 t
Sweden
Median
130 t
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
2,071

What the numbers show

True hemp, raw or retted — Production is currently reported for 34 countries. The highest value is 135,530 t in France; the lowest is 0 t in Sweden.

The median across all reporting countries is 130 t, and the mean is 12,484 t.

Over the past decade 11 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in France (up 11,635.2%), and the largest decrease in Germany (down 100.0%).

True hemp, raw or retted — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 France 135,530 t 2024 up 11,635.2% volatile
2 China 106,345 t 2024 up 232.3% volatile
2 China, mainland 106,345 t 2024 up 232.3% volatile
4 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 24,570 t 2024 up 88.1% volatile
5 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 15,523 t 2024 up 8.3% volatile
6 USSR 14,000 t 1991 down 46.2% volatile
7 Chile 4,357 t 2024 up 4.7% rising
8 Poland 3,630 t 2024 up 6.5% volatile
9 Italy 3,110 t 2024 up 79.8% volatile
10 Lithuania 2,800 t 2024 up 86.7% volatile
11 Austria 2,140 t 2024 down 45.7% volatile
12 Romania 1,910 t 2024 down 15.1% volatile
13 Yugoslav SFR 1,550 t 1991 down 66.6% volatile
14 Russian Federation 1,318 t 2024 down 7.2% volatile
15 Ukraine 700 t 2024 down 5.3% volatile
16 Spain 150 t 2024 up 114.3% volatile
17 Czechia 130 t 2024 down 80.1% volatile
17 Hungary 130 t 2019 down 74.0% volatile
19 Portugal 86 t 1970 down 29.5% falling
20 Greece 60 t 2024 down 68.4% volatile
21 Serbia and Montenegro 44 t 2005 down 92.8% volatile
22 Republic of Korea 16.3 t 2024 down 18.9% volatile
23 Türkiye 1 t 2024 unchanged volatile
24 Japan 0.57 t 2024 up 5.6% volatile
25 Syrian Arab Republic 0 t 1992 volatile
25 Bulgaria 0 t 2022 volatile
25 Cyprus 0 t 2024 flat
25 Germany 0 t 1973 down 100.0% falling
25 Estonia 0 t 2024 flat
25 Croatia 0 t 2024 volatile
25 Czechoslovakia 0 t 1992 down 100.0% volatile
25 Malta 0 t 2024 flat
25 Slovenia 0 t 2024 flat
25 Sweden 0 t 1987 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
True hemp, raw or retted — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
47 places, 2,071 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.