List of countries by cereal production

This is a list of countries by cereal production in 2023 based on the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The total world cereal production for 2023 was over three billion metric tons.

In 1961, the cereal production was 877 mln tonnes.

Production by country

The table shows the countries with the largest production of cereals (barley, oats, millet, sorghum, corn, rice, rye and wheat).

Rank	Country/Region	Cereal production (in million tons)
1	People's Republic of China	642
2	United States	456
3	India	368
4	Brazil	144
5	Russia	143
6	Argentina	97.3
7	Canada	72.1
8	Indonesia	67.7
9	France	62.5
10	Ukraine	61
11	Bangladesh	59.8
12	Vietnam	50.3
13	Germany	49.1
14	Pakistan	48.7
15	Turkey	46.8
16	Mexico	42.4
17	Thailand	41.7
18	Poland	39.9
19	Ethiopia	34.2
20	Nigeria	32.1
21	Myanmar	31.3
22	Australia	29.9
23	Philippines	28.3
24	Spain	27.1
25	Egypt	25.9
26	Iran	24.7
27	Kazakhstan	22.6
28	Romania	20.2
29	Italy	19.9
30	Hungary	19.3
31	South Africa	18.1
32	United Kingdom	17.3
33	Tanzania	16.2
34	Cambodia	14.9
35	Japan	13.7
36	Serbia	12.5
37	Nepal	11.7
38	Mali	10.2
One million to ten million tonnes
39	Denmark	9.93
40	Iraq	8.93
41	Bulgaria	8.74
42	Paraguay	8.63
43	Belarus	8.37
44	Czech Republic	8.21
45	Uzbekistan	7.98
46	Lithuania	7.26
47	Afghanistan	6.41
48	Sweden	6.32
49	Niger	6.14
50	Austria	6.02
51	Sri Lanka	5.99
52	Peru	5.89
53	Syria	5.67
54	Burkina Faso	5.53
55	South Korea	5.32
56	Algeria	5.21
57	Kenya	5.11
58	Laos	5.01
59	Guinea	4.99
60	North Korea	4.89
61	Ghana	4.79
62	Slovakia	4.69
63	Madagascar	4.53
64	Colombia	4.39
65	Malawi	4.22
66	Sudan	4.11
67	Croatia	4.01
68	Cameroon	3.99
69	Zambia	3.92
70	Senegal	3.88
71	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.79
72	Uruguay	3.69
73	Latvia	3.58
74	Uganda	3.49
75	Finland	3.42
76	Morocco	3.32
77	Azerbaijan	3.29
78	Greece	3.22
79	Bolivia	3.11
80	Chad	3.01
81	Ivory Coast	2.99
82	Chile	2.87
83	Ecuador	2.79
84	Belgium	2.69
85	Angola	2.62
86	Malaysia	2.57
87	Benin	2.48
88	Venezuela	2.39
89	Taiwan	2.22
90	Guatemala	2.17
91	Mozambique	2.12
92	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2.08
93	Kyrgyzstan	2.01
94	Ireland	1.99
95	Estonia	1.79
96	Zimbabwe	1.69
97	Tunisia	1.59
98	Turkmenistan	1.53
99	Moldova	1.49
100	Netherlands	1.44
101	Togo	1.41
102	Norway	1.38
103	Tajikistan	1.27
104	Saudi Arabia	1.23
105	Sierra Leone	1.11
106	Portugal	1.09
107	El Salvador	1.04
108	New Zealand	1.02
109	Switzerland	1.01
100,000 to a million tonnes
110	Dominican Republic	0.995
111	Nicaragua	0.947
112	South Sudan	0.883
113	Rwanda	0.833
114	Honduras	0.811
115	Slovenia	0.774
116	Guyana	0.722
117	Albania	0.692
118	North Macedonia	0.622
119	Panama	0.599
120	Cuba	0.577
121	Mauritania	0.533
122	Burundi	0.511
123	Yemen	0.498
124	Mongolia	0.433
125	Georgia	0.422
126	Haiti	0.389
127	Eritrea	0.379
128	Suriname	0.355
129	Liberia	0.271
130	Israel	0.244
131	Guinea-Bissau	0.233
132	Armenia	0.229
133	Libya	0.211
134	Oman	0.201
135	Somalia	0.198
136	Lebanon	0.188
137	Namibia	0.172
138	Gambia	0.171
139	Botswana	0.165
140	Costa Rica	0.156
141	Luxembourg	0.151
142	Timor-Leste	0.149
143	Central African Republic	0.143
144	Belize	0.133
145	Bhutan	0.112
1,000–100,000 tonnes
146	Lesotho	0.0988
147	Jordan	0.0963
148	Eswatini	0.0932
149	Cyprus	0.0801
150	Palestine	0.0532
151	Gabon	0.0506
152	Comoros	0.0417
153	Republic of the Congo	0.0382
154	Kuwait	0.0254
155	Papua New Guinea	0.0215
156	United Arab Emirates	0.0172
157	New Caledonia	0.0123
158	Fiji	9.95 × 10–3
159	Iceland	7.72 × 10–3
160	Montenegro	7.25 × 10–3
161	Trinidad and Tobago	6.32 × 10–3
162	Solomon Islands	3.33 × 10–3
163	Brunei	2.79 × 10–3
164	Jamaica	2.33 × 10–3
165	Qatar	1.95 × 10–3
<1,000 tonnes
166	Vanuatu	9.84 × 10–4
167	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	9.63 × 10–4
168	Mauritius	8.63 × 10–4
169	São Tomé and Príncipe	7.93 × 10–4
170	Bahamas	7.32 × 10–4
171	Cape Verde	6.88 × 10–4
172	Grenada	4.66 × 10–4
173	Federated States of Micronesia	3.36 × 10–4
174	Maldives	2.38 × 10–4
175	Dominica	2.11 × 10–4
176	Puerto Rico	1.89 × 10–4
177	Djibouti	2.3 × 10–5
178	Barbados	1.8 × 10–5
179	Antigua and Barbuda	1.6 × 10–5

World production

World production in tonnes.

Year Production 1961 876,874,525 1962 933,372,951 1963 949,345,889 1964 1,001,214,053 1965 998,593,015 1966 1,078,340,182 1967 1,124,081,325 1968 1,160,679,028 1969 1,170,998,781 1970 1,192,507,686

Year Production 1971 1,299,667,694 1972 1,258,478,723 1973 1,357,015,158 1974 1,326,549,451 1975 1,359,804,032 1976 1,463,711,084 1977 1,456,344,202 1978 1,582,019,615 1979 1,537,501,608 1980 1,549,912,169

Year Production 1981 1,6323,820,38 1982 1,692,539,888 1983 1,626,946,262 1984 1,786,795,488 1985 1,821,240,879 1986 1,834,022,448 1987 1,771,529,037 1988 1,727,627,559 1989 1,871,355,619 1990 1,951,724,102

Year Production 1991 1,890,391,252 1992 1,973,500,496 1993 1,904,192,038 1994 1,953,889,075 1995 1,899,401,998 1996 2,061,255,710 1997 2,095,415,393 1998 2,085,475,526 1999 2,082,266,262 2000 2,058,541,725

Year Production 2001 2,104,846,582 2002 2,053,763,021 2003 2,073,835,918 2004 2,285,578,663 2005 2,266,634,527 2006 2,255,532,617 2007 2,345,854,508 2008 2,519,336,137 2009 2,487,453,769 2010 2,461,509,552

Year Production 2011 2,582,720,778 2012 2,556,062,752 2013 2,758,918,973 2014 2,809,728,230 2015 2,833,660,085 2016 2,912,616,402 2017 2,961,463,847 2018 2,906,510,640 2019 2,963,812,987 2020 2,996,142,289