FAO/GIEWS - Food Outlook July/August/September 1997 page8

FAO/GIEWS - Food Outlook July/August/September 1997

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

	Crop Years ending in:
	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997 estim.	1998 forecast
	( . . . . . . . . . . . million tons . . . . . . . . . . . . )
TOTAL CEREALS	339.1	383.2	344.7	318.4	257.7	282.5	279.5
held by:
- main exporters 2/	132.6	168.9	119.2	108.9	73.9	103.1	101.8
- others	206.5	214.2	225.5	209.6	183.8	179.4	177.7
BY GRAINS
Wheat	137.4	147.6	144.7	117.5	102.9	109.9	121.1
held by:
- main exporters 2/	49.4	54.5	46.8	31.8	29.2	36.2	38.1
- others	88.0	93.0	97.9	85.7	73.7	73.8	83.0
Coarse Grains	136.4	168.7	137.5	146.2	100.8	117.9	107.8
held by:
- main exporters 2/	61.8	91.2	53.3	62.6	30.9	50.5	47.8
- others	74.6	77.5	84.2	83.6	69.9	67.4	60.1
Rice (milled basis)	65.3	66.9	62.5	54.7	54.0	54.7	50.6
held by:
- main exporters 2/	21.4	23.2	19.1	14.5	13.8	16.4	16.0
- others	43.9	43.7	43.4	40.2	40.2	38.2	34.7
BY REGIONS
Developed Countries	176.6	215.6	176.0	160.8	104.9	127.3	132.6
of which:
North America	62.7	96.4	59.9	69.3	35.2	56.7	58.8
Canada	15.0	17.6	16.2	9.2	9.7	15.2	12.2
United States	47.7	78.8	43.7	60.2	25.5	41.5	46.6
Others	113.9	119.2	116.1	91.5	69.7	70.6	72.3
Australia	3.4	5.6	4.6	2.6	3.0	2.8	2.1
CIS 3/	36.6	46.5	49.0	35.2	19.4	14.5	19.3
EC 4/	46.0	45.1	35.7	23.2	22.2	27.4	25.1
Japan	5.8	5.7	5.5	6.4	7.1	7.5	7.5
Developing Countries	162.5	167.5	168.7	157.7	152.8	155.2	146.9
of which:
Asia 5/	136.5	136.1	136.7	123.3	125.6	127.0	122.3
Bangladesh	3.2	3.3	3.0	2.6	1.8	2.0	2.3
China 6/	62.2	58.1	55.1	49.5	53.6	55.6	53.9
India 7/	8.3	11.3	19.0	24.1	18.4	10.5	15.0
Indonesia	4.7	6.3	6.1	4.8	6.0	6.1	6.0
Korea, Rep. of	3.6	3.8	3.1	2.0	1.6	2.1	1.7
Pakistan	2.8	3.6	4.1	3.2	3.3	3.7	4.3
Philippines	2.2	2.0	2.1	2.0	2.6	2.9	2.9
Turkey	2.5	2.3	4.5	2.0	2.7	3.1	2.0
Africa	17.0	18.2	17.4	19.1	12.3	16.9	13.6
Central America	3.5	4.4	4.3	4.7	3.9	3.0	3.3
South America	5.3	8.8	10.1	10.4	10.9	8.2	7.6
Argentina	0.4	0.4	1.1	0.7	0.8	0.9	1.2
Brazil	2.5	5.6	5.1	5.7	6.1	3.7	3.4
WORLD STOCKS	( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . percentage . . . . . . . . . . . . )
as % of consumption	19.3	21.7	19.1	17.7	14.0	15.1	14.9

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/ For a list of main exporters of wheat, coarse grains and rice see table A.7. 3/ FAO estimates; up to crop years ending in 1991, former U.S.S.R.; thereafter, Commonwealth of Independent States. 4/ From 1996, includes 15 member countries. 5/ Total includes FAO estimates for privately-held stocks. 6/ FAO estimates and including Taiwan Province. 7/ Government stocks only.