This page presents the rank of the country amongst all other countries ,for each agricultural commodity, for any given year. As such it can be used not just to see where a countries standing is today but can show changes over time.
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.