FAO/GIEWS - Food Outlook No.2 - April 2001 p. 8

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

	Crop Years ending in:
	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000 estim.	2001 f'cast
	( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . million tonnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . )
TOTAL CEREALS	637.8	589.9	635.4	674.6	700.4	693.4	645.0
Wheat	232.6	221.7	232.2	254.9	260.4	256.9	243.0
held by:
- main exporters 2/	31.8	28.9	37.0	39.9	52.8	52.2	48.8
- others	200.8	192.8	195.2	215.0	207.6	204.7	194.2
Coarse Grains	258.4	223.5	251.7	267.2	284.2	275.4	249.1
held by:
- main exporters 2/	62.4	31.9	46.3	68.9	84.3	77.2	78.7
- others	196.0	191.6	205.3	198.4	199.9	198.1	170.4
Rice (milled basis)	146.8	144.7	151.5	152.5	155.8	161.2	152.9
held by:
- main exporters 3/	106.2	106.9	111.8	115.8	117.7	118.8	112.7
excl. China 4/	4.0	4.0	4.5	4.6	4.6	5.9	6.1
- others	40.6	37.9	39.7	36.7	38.1	42.3	40.2
BY REGIONS
Developed Countries	157.7	104.0	121.9	168.4	175.2	164.6	158.0
Australia	2.6	3.1	4.1	3.7	3.4	5.1	5.0
EC 5/	23.0	22.7	24.4	35.1	41.2	33.3	36.2
Canada	9.2	9.8	14.0	10.4	12.5	13.4	12.6
Hungary	1.4	1.2	2.3	3.2	3.4	2.9	2.6
Japan	5.5	6.1	6.7	6.7	6.0	5.9	5.4
Poland	1.6	1.9	4.2	4.0	4.2	3.6	1.4
Romania	3.3	3.3	1.2	4.5	2.7	2.7	0.8
Russian Fed.	15.9	7.2	6.5	18.0	5.8	4.9	7.4
South Africa	3.2	1.3	1.9	3.3	1.9	1.7	3.2
Ukraine	9.5	7.6	3.6	4.5	2.2	2.2	1.7
United States	60.2	25.5	39.9	58.7	77.8	75.5	71.1
Developing Countries	480.1	485.9	513.5	506.2	525.2	528.8	487.1
Asia	446.7	456.7	476.8	474.6	488.7	492.5	454.7
China 4/	372.5	384.4	400.5	396.8	405.3	402.1	361.6
India	35.8	31.7	32.0	37.3	40.2	48.3	53.4
Indonesia	5.0	6.0	6.4	4.7	5.4	5.6	5.0
Iran, Islamic Rep. of	5.4	4.6	5.5	4.4	4.2	4.5	4.3
Korea, Rep. of	2.5	1.8	2.3	2.8	2.8	3.1	3.1
Pakistan	3.2	3.4	3.7	4.1	4.4	4.1	4.0
Philippines	1.2	1.9	2.0	2.0	2.6	2.0	1.8
Syria	3.0	3.3	3.2	2.2	2.1	1.3	0.9
Turkey	1.9	4.0	5.8	6.2	7.3	5.0	4.2
Africa	19.1	14.1	22.3	19.4	22.4	20.0	16.8
Algeria	2.7	2.0	2.6	1.9	2.0	1.5	1.2
Egypt	1.3	1.6	2.4	3.0	3.7	3.1	3.5
Ethiopia	0.3	1.1	1.4	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.8
Morocco	2.9	0.6	3.8	2.5	4.3	3.0	1.2
Nigeria	1.6	1.8	1.9	1.8	2.3	2.3	2.3
Tunisia	1.5	1.0	2.1	1.9	2.0	2.0	1.5
Central America	4.6	5.8	6.7	4.7	5.7	6.1	6.2
Mexico	2.8	4.5	5.4	3.6	4.6	5.0	5.3
South America	9.5	9.2	7.6	7.5	8.3	10.0	9.3
Argentina	0.7	1.0	2.3	2.2	3.4	3.8	4.1
Brazil	5.8	5.5	3.0	2.7	1.9	3.4	2.6

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 include China (total), Pakistan, Thailand, the United States and Viet Nam. See Table A.4 for country details.

4/ Including Taiwan Province.

5/ From 1996, includes 15 member countries.