Down 9.3% from the 2021 peak.
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Open data / ProductionWho actually grows
Who actually grows
the world's cocoa.
Cocoa bean production for fifteen origins from 2015 to 2024, on one consistent FAOSTAT basis, with the world total, five-year change, a downloadable dataset and the scope limits that make the numbers comparable.
One country grows more than a third of the world crop.
Concentration is the structural fact behind cocoa price shocks.
The fifteen origin field files, measured against the world total.
Ten years, one basisThe supply line,
The supply line,
and where it broke.
A single measure on a single source. Nothing here is indexed, smoothed or rebased — the shape is the shape FAOSTAT reports.
Every origin with a field file
Production by country
Ranked by 2024 output. The bar is the same number as the column beside it, drawn to scale against the largest producer; the trace is that country’s own 10-year shape, scaled to itself rather than to the leader.
| # | Origin | Region | 2024 tonnes | World share | Scale | 5-year change | 2015–2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Côte d’Ivoire | West Africa | 1,890,442 | 36.1% | −15.4% | ||
| 2 | Indonesia | Southeast Asia | 632,702 | 12.1% | −13.9% | ||
| 3 | Ghana | West Africa | 530,000 | 10.1% | −34.7% | ||
| 4 | Ecuador | Latin America | 403,699 | 7.7% | +42.3% | ||
| 5 | Nigeria† | West Africa | 350,000 | 6.7% | +40.0% | ||
| 6 | Cameroon† | West Africa | 320,000 | 6.1% | +6.2% | ||
| 7 | Brazil | Latin America | 297,509 | 5.7% | +14.7% | ||
| 8 | Peru | Latin America | 157,253 | 3.0% | +10.9% | ||
| 9 | Dominican Republic | Caribbean | 57,461 | 1.1% | −24.5% | ||
| 10 | Papua New Guinea | Oceania | 45,000 | 0.86% | +26.1% | ||
| 11 | India† | India | 30,388 | 0.58% | +26.6% | ||
| 12 | Venezuela | Latin America | 29,383 | 0.56% | +2.2% | ||
| 13 | Madagascar† | East Africa | 21,000 | 0.40% | +106.4% | ||
| 14 | Tanzania† | East Africa | 15,000 | 0.29% | +114.3% | ||
| 15 | Belize | Latin America | 225 | <0.01% | +104.5% |
† FAO estimate rather than a reported national return. The repeating, perfectly round values in those rows are the signature of an estimate and should not be read to the nearest tonne.
Before you quote this
Three reasons two cocoa tables disagree
Most published contradictions about cocoa volumes are not errors. They are different instruments measuring different things, reported without saying so.
Calendar year is not cocoa year
Everything here is a calendar year. The International Cocoa Organization reports a cocoa year running October to September, so an ICCO figure labelled 2023/24 straddles two columns of this table. Neither series is wrong and they must not be mixed inside one comparison.
Production is not export, grind or consumption
This measures beans harvested in a country. It does not say where they were fermented, exported, processed into liquor and butter, or eaten. A country can grow little and grind a great deal — that is a different dataset and a different question.
Some figures are estimates
Where a national statistical return is unavailable, FAO estimates. Those rows carry real uncertainty, and a chart that renders them at the same visual confidence as an audited return is quietly overstating what is known.
Take it and use itOpen data,
Open data,
openly licensed.
The underlying figures are FAO’s and are redistributed here under the same terms. The compilation, the scoping notes and the origin mapping are ours, released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Reuse it commercially, in a paper, or in a lesson — attribution is the only condition.
CSVcocoa-production.csvLong format, one row per country-year. Opens in any spreadsheet.Download ↗JSONcocoa-production.jsonSeries per country plus the world total and the scope notes.Download ↗
Cite this page
The Chocolate Atlas (2026). Cocoa production by country. Data: FAO, FAOSTAT, Crops and livestock products. Retrieved 2026-07-25. https://thechocolateatlas.com/data
Primary source: FAOSTAT crops and livestock products — Food and Agriculture Organization. Market context: International Cocoa Organization. The series was retrieved through Our World in Data’s FAOSTAT mirror; FAO is the authority for every figure, and the mirror is credited because provenance that skips a step is not provenance.