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. The per-capita world cereal production for that year was about or nearly 400 kilograms per person.^{[citation needed]}

The countries with the highest production of cereals include China, the United States, India, Brazil, Russia, Argentina and Canada. The countries with the highest per capita production of cereals include Lithuania, Argentina, Hungary, Canada, Serbia, Latvia and Denmark.^{[citation needed]}

In 1961, the total cereal production was nearly 877 million tons.^{[citation needed]}

The table shows the countries with the largest production of cereals (barley, oats, millet, sorghum, corn, rice, rye and wheat).^[1]

Rank	Country/Region	Cereal production (in million tons)	Production per capita (in kg per person)
1	People's Republic of China	658	460
2	United States	478	1,400
3	India	382	270
4	Brazil	156	710
5	Russia	149	1,000
6	Argentina	101	2,200
7	Canada	72.1	1,900
8	Indonesia	65.9	230
9	France	62.5	940
10	Ukraine	61	1,500
11	Bangladesh	59.8	350
12	Vietnam	50.3	440
13	Germany	49.1	600
14	Pakistan	48.7	210
15	Turkey	46.8	530
16	Mexico	42.4	320
17	Thailand	41.7	590
18	Poland	39.9	1,100
19	Ethiopia	34.2	270
20	Nigeria	32.1	140
21	Myanmar	31.3	560
22	Australia	29.9	1,100
23	Philippines	28.3	250
24	Spain	27.1	600
25	Egypt	26.9	240
26	Iran	24.7	280
27	Kazakhstan	22.6	1,300
28	Romania	20.2	1,100
29	Italy	19.9	330
30	Hungary	19.3	2,000
31	South Africa	18.1	290
32	United Kingdom	17.3	260
33	Tanzania	16.2	260
34	Japan	15.1	120
35	Cambodia	14.9	880
36	Serbia	12.5	1,900
37	Nepal	11.7	380
38	Mali	10.2	460
One million to ten million tons
39	Denmark	9.93	1,700
40	Iraq	8.93	190
41	Bulgaria	8.74	1,400
42	Paraguay	8.63	1,300
43	Belarus	8.37	910
44	Czech Republic	8.21	800
45	Uzbekistan	7.98	460
46	Lithuania	7.26	2,700
47	Afghanistan	6.41	150
48	Sweden	6.32	600
49	Niger	6.14	230
50	Austria	6.02	660
51	Sri Lanka	5.99	380
52	Peru	5.89	250
53	Syria	5.67	250
54	Burkina Faso	5.53	230
55	South Korea	5.32	100
56	Algeria	5.21	120
57	Kenya	5.11	95
58	Laos	5.01	620
59	Guinea	4.99	340
60	North Korea	4.89	190
61	Ghana	4.79	140
62	Sudan	4.72	83
63	Slovakia	4.69	890
64	Madagascar	4.53	170
65	Finland	4.46	800
66	Malawi	4.39	150
67	Colombia	4.22	80
68	Croatia	4.11	1,100
69	Cameroon	3.99	130
70	Zambia	3.92	190
71	Senegal	3.88	210
72	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.79	38
73	Uruguay	3.69	1,000
74	Latvia	3.58	1,900
75	Uganda	3.49	76
76	Morocco	3.32	98
77	Azerbaijan	3.29	320
78	Greece	3.22	300
79	Bolivia	3.11	250
80	Chad	3.01	180
81	Ivory Coast	2.99	110
82	Chile	2.87	150
83	Ecuador	2.79	110
84	Belgium	2.69	250
85	Angola	2.62	140
86	Malaysia	2.57	74
87	Benin	2.48	180
100	Netherlands	2.44	120
89	Venezuela	2.39	86
90	Taiwan	2.22	94
91	Guatemala	2.17	120
92	Mozambique	2.12	64
93	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2.08	640
94	Kyrgyzstan	2.01	280
95	Ireland	1.99	390
96	Estonia	1.79	1,400
97	Zimbabwe	1.69	100
98	Tunisia	1.59	120
99	Turkmenistan	1.53	230
100	Moldova	1.49	360
101	Togo	1.41	160
102	Norway	1.38	250
103	Tajikistan	1.27	120
104	Saudi Arabia	1.23	33
105	Sierra Leone	1.11	130
106	Portugal	1.09	110
107	El Salvador	1.04	160
108	New Zealand	1.03	200
109	Israel	1.02	110
110	Switzerland	1.01	120
100,000 to a million tons
111	Dominican Republic	0.995	88
112	Nicaragua	0.947	130
113	South Sudan	0.883	79
114	Rwanda	0.833	60
115	Honduras	0.811	74
116	Slovenia	0.774	360
117	Guyana	0.722	880
118	Albania	0.692	250
119	North Macedonia	0.622	310
120	Panama	0.599	130
121	Cuba	0.577	53
122	Mauritania	0.533	110
123	Burundi	0.511	38
124	Yemen	0.498	15
125	Mongolia	0.433	120
126	Georgia	0.422	39
127	Haiti	0.389	33
128	Eritrea	0.379	100
129	Suriname	0.355	570
130	Liberia	0.271	50
131	Guinea-Bissau	0.233	110
132	Armenia	0.229	83
133	Libya	0.211	30
134	Oman	0.201	44
135	Somalia	0.198	11
136	Lebanon	0.188	36
137	Namibia	0.172	66
138	Gambia	0.171	62
139	Botswana	0.165	61
140	Costa Rica	0.156	29
141	Luxembourg	0.151	220
142	Timor-Leste	0.149	110
143	Central African Republic	0.143	25
144	Belize	0.133	310
145	Bhutan	0.112	140
1,000–100,000 tons
146	Lesotho	0.0988	41
147	Jordan	0.0963	8.4
148	Eswatini	0.0932	13
149	Cyprus	0.0801	64
150	Palestine	0.0532	10
151	Gabon	0.0506	20
152	Comoros	0.0417	49
153	Republic of the Congo	0.0382	6.2
154	Kuwait	0.0254	6
155	Papua New Guinea	0.0215	2.3
156	United Arab Emirates	0.0172	1.7
157	New Caledonia	0.0123	46
158	Fiji	9.95 × 10–3	11
159	Iceland	7.72 × 10–3	20
160	Montenegro	7.25 × 10–3	12
161	Trinidad and Tobago	6.32 × 10–3	3.9
162	Solomon Islands	3.33 × 10–3	4.4
163	Brunei	2.79 × 10–3	6.1
164	Jamaica	2.33 × 10–3	0.82
165	Qatar	1.95 × 10–3	0.72
<1,000 tons
166	Vanuatu	9.84 × 10–4	2.9
167	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	9.63 × 10–4	9.6
168	Mauritius	8.63 × 10–4	0.69
169	São Tomé and Príncipe	7.93 × 10–4	3.4
170	Bahamas	7.32 × 10–4	1.7
171	Cape Verde	6.88 × 10–4	1.1
172	Grenada	4.66 × 10–4	3.6
173	Federated States of Micronesia	3.36 × 10–4	2.9
174	Maldives	2.38 × 10–4	0.45
175	Dominica	2.11 × 10–4	2.9
176	Puerto Rico	1.89 × 10–4	0.061
177	Djibouti	2.3 × 10–5	0.02
178	Barbados	1.8 × 10–5	0.064
179	Antigua and Barbuda	1.6 × 10–5	0.17