Food Outlook No.3 - July 2002 p.19

Table A.5 - WORLD STOCKS: Estimated Total Carryovers of Cereals 1/

	Crop Years ending in:
	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002 estim.	2003 f’cast
	( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . million tonnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . )
TOTAL CEREALS	614.1	654.8	676.6	672.1	627.2	570.1	497.7
Wheat	223.7	246.7	253.5	249.6	237.2	210.0	174.2
held by:
- main exporters 2/	36.0	39.3	50.7	50.3	52.5	45.0	41.5
- others	187.7	207.4	202.8	199.3	184.7	165.0	132.7
Coarse Grains	238.6	255.2	265.7	254.6	226.1	209.9	188.5
held by:
- main exporters 2/	46.7	69.3	79.7	73.8	79.4	74.8	65.6
- others	191.9	185.9	186.1	180.8	146.6	135.1	123.0
Rice (milled basis)	151.7	152.9	157.4	167.8	163.9	150.2	135.1
held by:
- main exporters 3/	111.8	115.7	117.2	119.6	114.1	101.5	88.4
excl. China 4/	4.5	4.5	4.1	6.7	7.6	7.9	7.5
- others	40.0	37.2	40.1	48.2	49.8	48.7	46.7
BY REGIONS
Developed Countries	121.6	169.1	171.0	161.3	162.2	161.2	146.1
Australia	3.2	3.8	3.0	4.2	5.2	6.5
EC	24.4	35.1	36.6	31.0	35.3	36.9
Canada	14.0	10.4	12.5	13.6	13.9	10.2
Hungary	2.3	2.8	2.6	2.0	1.3	2.9
Japan	6.7	6.7	6.0	5.7	5.3	4.7
Poland	4.2	4.0	4.2	3.7	1.3	1.3
Romania	1.2	5.0	3.5	3.5	0.6	1.4
Russian Fed.	6.5	18.0	5.8	4.9	6.5	9.0
South Africa	2.4	3.7	2.3	1.7	2.9	1.6
Ukraine	3.6	4.5	2.2	2.2	1.9	4.9
United States	39.9	58.7	77.8	75.6	77.4	66.9
Developing Countries	492.5	485.7	505.6	510.8	465.0	408.9	351.7
Asia	453.9	449.9	467.0	473.5	431.0	374.2
China 4/	374.0	366.6	374.7	367.5	319.3	271.6
India	32.3	37.9	42.3	53.8	60.8	59.4
Indonesia	6.4	4.7	5.0	5.3	5.3	3.3
Iran, Islamic Rep. of	3.5	2.0	1.6	2.0	1.3	1.1
Korea, Rep. of	2.3	2.8	2.8	3.3	3.0	3.3
Pakistan	6.3	7.3	8.6	7.9	7.0	3.7
Philippines	2.0	2.0	2.6	2.0	2.4	2.4
Syria	5.1	4.0	4.2	3.8	3.2	3.6
Turkey	6.8	7.4	9.4	8.3	8.7	5.9
Africa	23.8	21.0	25.8	23.3	21.4	20.4
Algeria	2.8	2.1	2.6	2.0	1.3	1.7
Egypt	2.9	3.7	4.5	4.0	4.1	3.0
Ethiopia	1.6	0.9	1.1	1.3	1.7	1.2
Morocco	3.8	2.5	4.7	3.0	1.4	1.6
Nigeria	1.9	1.9	1.9	1.6	2.2	2.5
Tunisia	2.1	1.9	1.9	2.1	2.0	2.1
Central America	7.0	5.1	6.2	6.6	6.0	6.1
Mexico	5.7	3.9	5.0	5.0	4.5	4.9
South America	7.7	9.7	6.4	7.2	6.6	8.1
Argentina	2.5	2.1	1.7	1.5	1.7	1.4
Brazil	2.9	4.9	1.5	2.6	1.7	3.8

Source: FAO Note: Based on official and unofficial estimates. Totals computed from unrounded data.

1/ Stock data are based on an aggregate of carryovers at the end of national crop years and should not be construed as representing world stock levels at a fixed point in time.

2/ The major wheat and coarse grains exporters are Argentina, Australia, Canada, the EC and the United States. See Table A.4 for country details.

3/ The major rice exporters are China (including Taiwan Province), Pakistan, Thailand, the United States and Viet Nam. See Table A.4 for country details.

4/ Including Taiwan Province.