Unmanufactured tobacco — 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
Unmanufactured tobacco — Production is currently reported for 145 countries. The highest value is 2.26 million t in China; the lowest is 0 t in Guadeloupe.
The median across all reporting countries is 2,560 t, and the mean is 58,655 t.
Over the past decade 51 countries rose and 89 fell. The largest increase was in Ukraine (up 4,400.0%), and the largest decrease in Cyprus (down 100.0%).
Unmanufactured tobacco — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 2.26 million t | 2024 | down 24.7% | rising |
| 2 | China, mainland | 2.26 million t | 2024 | down 24.7% | rising |
| 3 | India | 727,203 t | 2024 | up 1.1% | rising |
| 3 | United Republic of Tanzania | 117,464 t | 2024 | up 46.0% | volatile |
| 4 | Brazil | 637,749 t | 2024 | down 26.0% | rising |
| 4 | Türkiye | 108,000 t | 2024 | up 44.6% | falling |
| 5 | Indonesia | 353,386 t | 2024 | up 80.0% | rising |
| 5 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 88,036 t | 2024 | up 8.5% | rising |
| 6 | Zimbabwe | 236,815 t | 2024 | up 28.7% | rising |
| 6 | Viet Nam | 48,313 t | 2024 | down 1.9% | rising |
| 7 | USSR | 217,496 t | 1991 | down 5.8% | rising |
| 8 | Pakistan | 184,982 t | 2024 | up 42.4% | rising |
| 8 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 20,948 t | 2024 | up 10.0% | flat |
| 9 | Malawi | 119,957 t | 2024 | down 5.1% | volatile |
| 9 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 19,300 t | 2024 | down 69.5% | volatile |
| 10 | Bangladesh | 97,814 t | 2024 | up 15.1% | rising |
| 11 | Mozambique | 92,343 t | 2024 | down 4.9% | volatile |
| 11 | Syrian Arab Republic | 8,430 t | 2024 | down 42.8% | rising |
| 12 | Argentina | 80,786 t | 2024 | down 36.4% | rising |
| 12 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 3,517 t | 2024 | down 14.9% | falling |
| 13 | Thailand | 66,285 t | 2024 | down 16.7% | rising |
| 13 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 2,952 t | 2024 | down 41.5% | volatile |
| 14 | Yugoslav SFR | 58,061 t | 1991 | down 17.1% | rising |
| 14 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 1,207 t | 2024 | up 6.5% | falling |
| 15 | Philippines | 55,346 t | 2024 | down 9.9% | falling |
| 15 | Republic of Moldova | 564 t | 2024 | down 59.6% | volatile |
| 16 | Italy | 33,900 t | 2024 | down 37.1% | falling |
| 16 | Melanesia | 374.22 t | 2024 | down 34.1% | falling |
| 17 | Uganda | 32,092 t | 2024 | up 1.6% | volatile |
| 17 | Polynesia | 252.32 t | 2024 | up 18.2% | rising |
| 18 | Yemen | 31,682 t | 2024 | up 42.2% | volatile |
| 18 | Timor-Leste | 0 t | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 19 | Guatemala | 30,621 t | 2024 | up 9.6% | volatile |
| 20 | Caribbean | 29,645 t | 2024 | down 5.9% | falling |
| 20 | Republic of Korea | 27,948 t | 2024 | up 0.1% | volatile |
| 21 | Canada | 27,780 t | 2024 | up 0.1% | falling |
| 22 | Myanmar | 26,644 t | 2024 | down 6.8% | falling |
| 23 | North Macedonia | 24,116 t | 2024 | down 12.6% | rising |
| 24 | Zambia | 20,768 t | 2024 | down 41.6% | volatile |
| 24 | Côte d'Ivoire | 8,087 t | 2024 | down 8.0% | volatile |
| 25 | Spain | 19,410 t | 2024 | down 33.4% | flat |
| 26 | Poland | 19,200 t | 2024 | down 45.0% | volatile |
| 27 | Mexico | 18,579 t | 2024 | up 22.9% | volatile |
| 28 | Dominican Republic | 14,651 t | 2024 | up 59.9% | volatile |
| 29 | Cuba | 12,482 t | 2024 | down 37.0% | falling |
| 30 | Kenya | 12,446 t | 2024 | up 15.6% | volatile |
| 31 | Cambodia | 12,410 t | 2024 | down 11.9% | rising |
| 32 | Serbia and Montenegro | 11,752 t | 2005 | down 12.8% | rising |
| 33 | Czechoslovakia | 11,557 t | 1992 | up 87.6% | falling |
| 34 | South Africa | 11,231 t | 2024 | down 12.8% | falling |
| 35 | Algeria | 11,182 t | 2024 | up 28.4% | rising |
| 36 | Lebanon | 10,522 t | 2024 | down 1.4% | rising |
| 37 | Greece | 10,210 t | 2024 | down 75.1% | volatile |
| 38 | Ecuador | 9,553 t | 2024 | up 30.7% | volatile |
| 39 | Sri Lanka | 8,514 t | 2024 | up 156.3% | falling |
| 40 | Japan | 8,336 t | 2024 | down 58.3% | volatile |
| 41 | Nicaragua | 7,786 t | 2023 | up 64.1% | volatile |
| 42 | Azerbaijan | 7,777 t | 2024 | up 172.1% | volatile |
| 43 | Serbia | 7,005 t | 2024 | down 25.0% | falling |
| 44 | Cameroon | 6,437 t | 2024 | up 3.4% | rising |
| 45 | Germany | 6,218 t | 2017 | down 19.7% | falling |
| 46 | Croatia | 6,180 t | 2024 | down 32.6% | falling |
| 47 | Honduras | 5,856 t | 2024 | down 0.3% | rising |
| 48 | Nigeria | 5,578 t | 2024 | up 2.6% | falling |
| 49 | Hungary | 4,730 t | 2024 | down 50.0% | falling |
| 50 | Rwanda | 4,684 t | 2024 | up 0.4% | rising |
| 51 | Australia | 3,605 t | 2005 | down 46.8% | falling |
| 51 | Australia and New Zealand | 3,605 t | 2005 | down 48.3% | falling |
| 53 | Bulgaria | 3,380 t | 2024 | down 88.7% | volatile |
| 54 | Uruguay | 3,350 t | 2024 | up 6.4% | volatile |
| 55 | Turkmenistan | 3,334 t | 2024 | up 3.9% | rising |
| 56 | Colombia | 3,305 t | 2024 | down 88.4% | falling |
| 57 | Peru | 3,278 t | 2024 | up 47.6% | volatile |
| 58 | Chile | 3,031 t | 2024 | down 52.4% | falling |
| 59 | Angola | 2,784 t | 2024 | down 7.1% | falling |
| 60 | Panama | 2,754 t | 2024 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 61 | France | 2,650 t | 2024 | down 73.0% | volatile |
| 62 | Ghana | 2,560 t | 2024 | up 5.7% | rising |
| 63 | Guinea | 2,399 t | 2024 | up 3.2% | rising |
| 64 | Iraq | 2,340 t | 2024 | up 0.2% | volatile |
| 65 | Paraguay | 2,296 t | 2024 | down 59.1% | volatile |
| 66 | Ukraine | 2,250 t | 2024 | up 4,400.0% | volatile |
| 67 | Tunisia | 2,216 t | 2024 | up 53.4% | falling |
| 68 | Ethiopia | 2,176 t | 2024 | down 4.0% | falling |
| 69 | Ethiopia PDR | 2,001 t | 1992 | down 29.8% | rising |
| 70 | Togo | 1,959 t | 2024 | up 3.7% | falling |
| 71 | Albania | 1,861 t | 2024 | down 38.0% | volatile |
| 72 | El Salvador | 1,819 t | 2024 | up 4.8% | volatile |
| 73 | Mali | 1,710 t | 2024 | up 10.5% | volatile |
| 74 | Jamaica | 1,660 t | 2024 | down 0.8% | rising |
| 75 | Uzbekistan | 1,412 t | 2024 | down 90.7% | volatile |
| 76 | Palestine | 1,406 t | 2022 | up 334.5% | volatile |
| 77 | China, Taiwan Province of | 1,393 t | 2024 | down 15.6% | volatile |
| 78 | Nepal | 1,380 t | 2024 | down 40.7% | falling |
| 79 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 1,314 t | 1999 | down 14.7% | falling |
| 80 | Burundi | 1,277 t | 2024 | down 1.0% | volatile |
| 81 | Morocco | 1,270 t | 2024 | down 5.9% | volatile |
| 82 | Libya | 1,226 t | 2024 | down 5.3% | rising |
| 83 | Oman | 1,115 t | 2024 | down 4.0% | volatile |
| 84 | Niger | 1,083 t | 2024 | up 110.7% | volatile |
| 85 | Armenia | 1,020 t | 2024 | down 18.6% | volatile |
| 86 | Kyrgyzstan | 972 t | 2024 | down 77.8% | volatile |
| 87 | Madagascar | 919.05 t | 2024 | down 39.4% | volatile |
| 88 | Switzerland | 756.04 t | 2024 | down 24.2% | falling |
| 89 | Burkina Faso | 754.22 t | 2024 | down 15.7% | flat |
| 90 | Haiti | 557.74 t | 2024 | down 0.7% | rising |
| 91 | Congo | 494.25 t | 2024 | up 4.0% | volatile |
| 92 | Central African Republic | 480.29 t | 2024 | down 4.1% | volatile |
| 93 | Romania | 430 t | 2024 | down 69.4% | volatile |
| 94 | Tajikistan | 379.22 t | 2024 | down 31.1% | volatile |
| 95 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 377 t | 2024 | down 79.2% | falling |
| 96 | Jordan | 314 t | 2024 | up 4,385.7% | volatile |
| 97 | Georgia | 272.34 t | 2024 | down 5.4% | volatile |
| 98 | Fiji | 259.71 t | 2024 | down 43.1% | falling |
| 99 | Samoa | 252.32 t | 2024 | up 18.2% | rising |
| 100 | Montenegro | 233.79 t | 2024 | down 4.6% | falling |
| 101 | United Arab Emirates | 229.29 t | 2024 | down 30.4% | volatile |
| 102 | Bhutan | 218.83 t | 2024 | up 10.5% | volatile |
| 103 | Trinidad and Tobago | 190.16 t | 2024 | down 3.5% | volatile |
| 104 | Chad | 178.02 t | 2024 | down 2.0% | rising |
| 105 | Eswatini | 161.97 t | 2024 | up 7.6% | volatile |
| 106 | Somalia | 145.64 t | 2024 | up 4.1% | rising |
| 107 | Belgium | 129.29 t | 2017 | down 18.2% | volatile |
| 108 | Kazakhstan | 128.96 t | 2024 | down 92.0% | volatile |
| 109 | Solomon Islands | 114.52 t | 2024 | up 2.7% | rising |
| 110 | Austria | 107.84 t | 2017 | down 73.0% | falling |
| 111 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 103.73 t | 2024 | up 4.0% | volatile |
| 112 | Guyana | 100.94 t | 2024 | up 7.5% | rising |
| 113 | Malaysia | 80 t | 2024 | down 95.5% | volatile |
| 114 | Sierra Leone | 47.85 t | 2024 | down 10.4% | volatile |
| 115 | Réunion | 22 t | 2006 | up 4.8% | volatile |
| 116 | Costa Rica | 17.27 t | 2024 | down 71.2% | volatile |
| 117 | Russian Federation | 13.9 t | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 118 | Israel | 4.47 t | 2024 | down 3.5% | volatile |
| 119 | Benin | 3.17 t | 2024 | down 37.1% | volatile |
| 120 | Puerto Rico | 0.92 t | 2024 | down 31.9% | volatile |
| 121 | Cyprus | 0 t | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 121 | Mauritius | 0 t | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 121 | New Zealand | 0 t | 1998 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 121 | Portugal | 0 t | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 121 | Senegal | 0 t | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 121 | Singapore | 0 t | 1998 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 121 | Slovakia | 0 t | 2020 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 121 | Sweden | 0 t | 2019 | — | volatile |
| 121 | Guadeloupe | 0 t | 1992 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 6.05 million t
- Asia 4.18 million t
- Eastern Asia 2.38 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 596,645 t
- Southern Asia 1.04 million t
- Americas 1.02 million t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 858,098 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 780,098 t
- South America 747,608 t
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 30,372 t
- Africa 706,446 t
- Eastern Africa 641,088 t
- South-eastern Asia 581,764 t
- Middle Africa 13,891 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 486,241 t
- Northern America 175,300 t
- Western Asia 172,662 t
- United States of America 147,520 t
- Europe 137,267 t
- Southern Europe 103,293 t
- European Union (27) 100,090 t
- Central America 67,514 t
- Eastern Europe 30,568 t
- Western Africa 24,181 t
- Northern Africa 15,893 t
- Southern Africa 11,393 t
- Central Asia 6,225 t
- Western Europe 3,406 t
- Oceania 626.54 t
- Northern Europe 0 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.