Walnuts, in shell — 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
70
Highest
1.50 million t
China
Lowest
0 t
Estonia
Median
7,350 t
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,414

What the numbers show

Walnuts, in shell — Production is currently reported for 70 countries. The highest value is 1.50 million t in China; the lowest is 0 t in Estonia.

The median across all reporting countries is 7,350 t, and the mean is 78,537 t.

Over the past decade 48 countries rose and 15 fell. The largest increase was in Slovakia (up 5,700.0%), and the largest decrease in Yemen (down 100.0%).

Walnuts, in shell — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China 1.50 million t 2024 up 66.7% volatile
1 China, mainland 1.50 million t 2024 up 66.7% volatile
3 Türkiye 426,000 t 2024 up 135.6% rising
4 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 411,331 t 2024 up 2.0% volatile
5 India 317,776 t 2024 up 31.9% volatile
6 Chile 175,000 t 2024 up 150.0% volatile
7 Mexico 169,815 t 2024 up 35.0% volatile
8 Burkina Faso 143,829 t 2024 up 99.8% rising
9 Ukraine 106,900 t 2024 up 4.0% rising
10 Greece 96,910 t 2024 up 294.0% rising
11 USSR 96,000 t 1991 up 60.0% volatile
12 Romania 52,700 t 2024 up 67.2% rising
13 Uzbekistan 49,149 t 2024 up 11.7% volatile
14 Yugoslav SFR 29,600 t 1991 up 11.8% falling
15 France 27,710 t 2024 down 20.3% rising
16 Afghanistan 27,524 t 2024 up 164.0% volatile
17 Bosnia and Herzegovina 26,042 t 2024 up 1,152.6% volatile
18 Egypt 23,580 t 2024 down 1.9% falling
19 Serbia and Montenegro 21,264 t 2005 up 16.1% flat
20 Spain 20,060 t 2024 up 28.6% rising
21 Argentina 18,518 t 2024 up 36.2% rising
22 Germany 18,261 t 2017 up 7.4% rising
23 Republic of Moldova 17,515 t 2024 up 33.5% rising
24 Belarus 16,950 t 2024 up 5.9% rising
25 Czechoslovakia 16,681 t 1992 up 21.0% falling
26 Italy 15,940 t 2024 up 31.8% volatile
27 Syrian Arab Republic 14,366 t 2024 up 21.6% rising
28 Pakistan 13,855 t 2024 up 37.3% rising
29 Azerbaijan 13,498 t 2024 up 54.3% rising
30 Nepal 13,311 t 2024 up 80.9% rising
31 Australia and New Zealand 12,497 t 2024 up 102.6% volatile
32 Australia 12,000 t 2024 up 129.1% volatile
33 Morocco 11,248 t 2024 down 10.1% volatile
34 Portugal 11,150 t 2024 up 169.8% falling
35 Georgia 7,500 t 2024 up 78.6% falling
36 Poland 7,200 t 2024 up 3.8% volatile
37 Serbia 7,121 t 2024 down 55.8% falling
38 Kyrgyzstan 6,336 t 2024 up 9.2% rising
39 North Macedonia 5,520 t 2024 up 18.7% rising
40 Hungary 4,680 t 2024 up 8.3% falling
41 Brazil 4,307 t 2024 down 20.6% volatile
42 Bulgaria 4,240 t 2024 up 153.9% volatile
43 Austria 3,990 t 2024 up 16.0% volatile
44 Armenia 3,811 t 2024 up 186.3% flat
45 Lebanon 3,377 t 2024 up 70.0% volatile
46 Kazakhstan 2,731 t 2024 up 23.7% rising
47 Switzerland 2,259 t 2024 down 8.3% volatile
48 Iraq 1,462 t 2024 down 4.1% falling
49 Republic of Korea 1,146 t 2024 down 3.9% volatile
50 Slovenia 880 t 2024 up 82.6% volatile
51 Montenegro 725.97 t 2024 up 7.2% rising
52 Belgium-Luxembourg 597 t 1999 volatile
53 Palestine 589.38 t 2022 up 328.1% volatile
54 New Zealand 496.74 t 2024 down 46.6% volatile
55 Belgium 370.65 t 2017 down 28.7% falling
56 Croatia 300 t 2024 down 89.5% volatile
57 Slovakia 290 t 2024 up 5,700.0% volatile
58 Peru 222 t 2024 down 33.3% volatile
59 Cyprus 180 t 2024 up 71.4% rising
60 Bhutan 134.82 t 2024 down 59.7% volatile
61 Czechia 90 t 2024 up 36.4% volatile
62 Luxembourg 30 t 2024 up 15.4% volatile
63 Jordan 3 t 2024 down 57.1% volatile
64 Sweden 0 t 2024 flat
64 Ireland 0 t 2024 flat
64 Yemen 0 t 1997 down 100.0% volatile
64 Malta 0 t 2024 flat
64 Finland 0 t 2024 flat
64 Latvia 0 t 2024 flat
64 Estonia 0 t 2024 flat

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
Walnuts, in shell — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
95 places, 4,414 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.