Unmanufactured tobacco — Production in India
India: Unmanufactured tobacco — Production was 727,203 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Unmanufactured tobacco — Production in India, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
India recorded 727,203 t for unmanufactured tobacco — production in 2024.
That represents a change of up 1.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, unmanufactured tobacco — production in India peaked at 830,000 t in 2011 and was at its lowest, 293,000 t, in 1966.
That places India 3rd out of 139 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Unmanufactured tobacco — Production in India, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 307,000 t | — |
| 1962 | 339,000 t | +10.4% |
| 1963 | 341,000 t | +0.6% |
| 1964 | 360,000 t | +5.6% |
| 1965 | 346,000 t | -3.9% |
| 1966 | 293,000 t | -15.3% |
| 1967 | 353,400 t | +20.6% |
| 1968 | 368,700 t | +4.3% |
| 1969 | 361,000 t | -2.1% |
| 1970 | 337,100 t | -6.6% |
| 1971 | 361,900 t | +7.4% |
| 1972 | 418,900 t | +15.8% |
| 1973 | 372,200 t | -11.1% |
| 1974 | 462,100 t | +24.2% |
| 1975 | 363,100 t | -21.4% |
| 1976 | 349,800 t | -3.7% |
| 1977 | 418,800 t | +19.7% |
| 1978 | 493,600 t | +17.9% |
| 1979 | 453,800 t | -8.1% |
| 1980 | 438,500 t | -3.4% |
| 1981 | 480,800 t | +9.6% |
| 1982 | 520,100 t | +8.2% |
| 1983 | 581,600 t | +11.8% |
| 1984 | 492,500 t | -15.3% |
| 1985 | 485,900 t | -1.3% |
| 1986 | 441,200 t | -9.2% |
| 1987 | 461,800 t | +4.7% |
| 1988 | 367,400 t | -20.4% |
| 1989 | 492,800 t | +34.1% |
| 1990 | 551,600 t | +11.9% |
| 1991 | 555,900 t | +0.8% |
| 1992 | 584,400 t | +5.1% |
| 1993 | 596,500 t | +2.1% |
| 1994 | 562,900 t | -5.6% |
| 1995 | 566,700 t | +0.7% |
| 1996 | 535,200 t | -5.6% |
| 1997 | 618,000 t | +15.5% |
| 1998 | 646,000 t | +4.5% |
| 1999 | 736,200 t | +14.0% |
| 2000 | 520,000 t | -29.4% |
| 2001 | 340,000 t | -34.6% |
| 2002 | 550,000 t | +61.8% |
| 2003 | 490,000 t | -10.9% |
| 2004 | 549,900 t | +12.2% |
| 2005 | 549,100 t | -0.1% |
| 2006 | 552,200 t | +0.6% |
| 2007 | 520,000 t | -5.8% |
| 2008 | 490,000 t | -5.8% |
| 2009 | 622,830 t | +27.1% |
| 2010 | 690,000 t | +10.8% |
| 2011 | 830,000 t | +20.3% |
| 2012 | 820,000 t | -1.2% |
| 2013 | 765,154 t | -6.7% |
| 2014 | 719,420 t | -6.0% |
| 2015 | 738,029 t | +2.6% |
| 2016 | 747,977 t | +1.3% |
| 2017 | 744,410 t | -0.5% |
| 2018 | 744,046 t | -0.0% |
| 2019 | 746,861 t | +0.4% |
| 2020 | 740,128 t | -0.9% |
| 2021 | 731,142 t | -1.2% |
| 2022 | 727,518 t | -0.5% |
| 2023 | 727,361 t | -0.0% |
| 2024 | 727,203 t | -0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 341,011 t | 293,000 t | 368,700 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 403,130 t | 337,100 t | 493,600 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 476,260 t | 367,400 t | 581,600 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 595,340 t | 535,200 t | 736,200 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 518,403 t | 340,000 t | 622,830 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 754,590 t | 690,000 t | 830,000 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 730,670 t | 727,203 t | 740,128 t | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for India
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -2.83 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1623 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 438.73 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4067 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6431 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 16.2% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 16.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.5% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is unmanufactured tobacco — production in India?
- Unmanufactured tobacco — production in India was 727,203 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest unmanufactured tobacco — production recorded in India?
- The highest recorded value was 830,000 t in 2011.
- What is the lowest unmanufactured tobacco — production recorded in India?
- The lowest recorded value was 293,000 t in 1966.
- How does India rank for unmanufactured tobacco — production?
- India ranks 3rd out of 139 countries with data for 2024.
- Is unmanufactured tobacco — production rising or falling in India?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this India data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Unmanufactured tobacco — Production. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.