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Cereal production

Observed

Production of primary cereals (wheat, rice, maize, barley, oats, rye, millet, sorghum and others) harvested for dry grain, in tonnes.

Ingestedfrom Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsfreshJSON export
Current value, World
3.13Btonnes
period 2024
Geography
World (WLD)
Observation date
2024
Unit
tonnes
Frequency
annual
Ingested
2026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1-year change+6.95Mimproving+0.22%2023 to 2024from 3.13B to 3.13B tonnes
10-year trend+1.04% per yearimproving+10.90%2014 to 2024compound annual growth rate; total +308.02M tonnes, from 2.83B to 3.13B tonnes
Historical series

Cereal production, World

Observed
500M1B1.5B2B2.5B3B3.5B19611970198019902000201020202024TONNES3.13B
64 observations, 1961 to 2024latest point emphasised
Data table (64 rows)
Cereal production, World: 64 observations from 1961 to 2024, values from 876.87M to 3.13B tonnes. Latest 3.13B tonnes in 2024. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (tonnes)Source revisionIngested at
20243,133,222,740.922025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20233,126,272,361.512025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20223,054,490,734.772025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20213,075,146,908.872025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20203,026,008,663.62025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20192,966,105,286.822025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20182,899,638,982.742025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20172,940,738,142.282025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20162,935,986,992.62025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20152,835,200,306.022025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20142,825,198,028.632025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20132,766,181,600.942025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20122,543,282,189.22025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20112,588,497,613.632025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20102,470,961,567.472025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20092,489,053,506.312025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20082,519,355,048.22025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20072,349,024,102.452025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20062,235,489,810.622025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20052,263,875,810.952025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20042,277,130,239.222025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20032,098,750,767.182025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20022,037,238,424.512025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20012,106,830,519.72025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20002,057,902,918.522025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19992,084,706,518.12025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19982,073,617,166.832025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19972,093,981,601.612025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19962,051,723,324.712025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19951,894,870,287.162025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19941,957,426,419.882025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19931,900,378,422.772025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19921,974,329,397.972025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19911,888,077,117.262025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19901,952,573,779.692025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19891,871,355,5942025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19881,727,627,5342025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19871,771,529,0172025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19861,834,022,4282025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19851,821,240,8592025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19841,786,795,4692025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19831,626,946,2442025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19821,692,539,8702025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19811,632,382,0282025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19801,549,912,1592025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19791,537,501,5982025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19781,582,019,6052025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19771,456,344,1922025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19761,463,711,0742025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19751,359,804,0222025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19741,326,549,4412025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19731,357,015,1482025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19721,258,478,7132025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19711,299,667,6842025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19701,192,507,6762025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19691,170,980,0712025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19681,160,679,0182025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19671,124,081,3152025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19661,078,340,1722025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1965998,593,0052025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19641,001,214,0432025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1963949,345,8792025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1962933,372,9412025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1961876,874,5152025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
185 geographies have observations for this metric
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT (bulk download service), series QCL:1717:5510
Definition

What this measures

Total production of the FAO primary cereals group (wheat, rice, maize, barley, oats, rye, millet, sorghum, buckwheat, quinoa, fonio, triticale, canary seed, mixed grain and cereals n.e.c.), relating to crops harvested for dry grain only; cereals harvested for hay, green feed, silage or grazing are excluded. Rice is reported as paddy. FAOSTAT domain QCL, item Cereals primary (1717), element Production (5510), unit t. Annual.

Direction
higher is better
Geography level
country
Slug
cereal-production
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
Classification
Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
Source organization
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT (bulk download service)
Series ID
QCL:1717:5510last fetch: ok
Source links
License and attribution
Approved with attribution
FAO. 2026. FAOSTAT: [Domain name]. Accessed on [DD Month YYYY]. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data. Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Data used with attribution and not for or in conjunction with the promotion of a commercial enterprise, product or service.
Terms of use
Last source update
2025-12-31(source revision label as published by the provider)
Last ingestion
last successful runfresh
Last run
success2026-09-07 20:16 UTC
Parser version
faostat-bulk/1.0.0
Methodology version
1.0
Quality and confidence
FAOSTAT revises history in place; each revision is stored as a new row labelled with the domain's DateUpdate. Aggregates other than World and former countries (USSR, Sudan (former), ...) are not stored.
Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 100,000,000,000 tonnes.
64 periods with values for this geography, 1961 to 2024.
Revisions
Values reported for the latest period (2024) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revisionValue (tonnes)Ingested atStatus
2025-12-313,133,222,740.922026-09-07 20:00 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.