MAJOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES AND PRODUCERS

Food and Agricultural commodities production
	Commodities by country
	Countries by commodity
	Country rank in the world, by commodity

This page presents the 20 highest producing countries of a specific food and agricultural commodity for the year indicated. When applicable International commodity prices are used, to calculate the total value of each commodity produced by each country and subsequently used in the ranking of commodities and countries. They are applied in order to avoid the use of exchange rates for obtaining continental and world aggregates, and also to improve and facilitate international comparative analysis of productivity at the national level. Data is extracted from the FAOSTAT database. For detailed definitions of commodities and other notes, see technical notes.

Rank	Commodity	Production (Int $1000) Footnote		Production (MT) Footnote

1	Brazil	8,725,914	C	420,121,000
2	India	4,825,286	C	232,320,000
3	China	1,819,452	C	88,730,000
4	Thailand	1,029,610	C	49,572,000
5	Pakistan	981,260	C	47,244,100
6	Mexico	937,277	C	45,126,500	F
7	Colombia	827,669	C	39,849,240
8	Australia	794,369	C	38,246,000	*
9	Philippines	643,870	C	31,000,000	F
10	United States of America	535,948	C	25,803,960
11	Indonesia	529,635	C	25,500,000	*
12	South Africa	451,230	C	21,725,100
13	Argentina	400,861	C	19,300,000	F
14	Guatemala	373,860	C	18,000,000	F
15	Egypt	339,278	C	16,335,000	F
16	Viet Nam	311,550	C	15,000,000	F
17	Cuba	259,625	C	12,500,000	F
18	Venezuela,Bolivar Rep of	182,776	C	8,800,000	F
19	Peru	147,467	C	7,100,000	F
20	Iran, Islamic Rep of	135,005	C	6,500,000	F

	No symbol = official figure F = FAO estimate	* = Unofficial figure C = Calculated figure
Production in Int $1000 have been calculated based on 1999-2001 international prices

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