{
  "name": "Cocoa bean production by origin country",
  "unit": "tonnes",
  "basis": "calendar year",
  "years": [
    2015,
    2016,
    2017,
    2018,
    2019,
    2020,
    2021,
    2022,
    2023,
    2024
  ],
  "retrieved": "2026-07-25",
  "source": {
    "publisher": "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations",
    "dataset": "FAOSTAT — Crops and livestock products (QCL)",
    "item": "Cocoa beans",
    "element": "Production",
    "url": "https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL",
    "retrievedVia": "https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cocoa-bean-production"
  },
  "license": {
    "compilation": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "The Chocolate Atlas — https://thechocolateatlas.com/data"
  },
  "notes": [
    "Calendar years. ICCO reports cocoa years running October to September; a 2023/24 ICCO figure is not comparable with any single column here.",
    "Production means beans harvested in the country. It is not export, not grind, and not consumption.",
    "Rows flagged estimated are FAO estimates rather than reported national returns and carry real uncertainty."
  ],
  "world": {
    "2015": 4817236,
    "2016": 4777619,
    "2017": 5235270,
    "2018": 5505867,
    "2019": 5520075,
    "2020": 5683749,
    "2021": 5771233,
    "2022": 5622906,
    "2023": 5123486,
    "2024": 5233246
  },
  "countries": [
    {
      "country": "Côte d’Ivoire",
      "estimated": false,
      "production": {
        "2015": 1796000,
        "2016": 1634000,
        "2017": 2034000,
        "2018": 2113189,
        "2019": 2235043,
        "2020": 2200000,
        "2021": 2228459,
        "2022": 2358991,
        "2023": 1822441,
        "2024": 1890442
      }
    },
    {
      "country": "Ghana",
      "estimated": false,
      "production": {
        "2015": 858720,
        "2016": 858720,
        "2017": 969300,
        "2018": 904700,
        "2019": 811700,
        "2020": 800000,
        "2021": 1047385,
        "2022": 683300,
        "2023": 653700,
        "2024": 530000
      }
    },
    {
      "country": "Indonesia",
      "estimated": false,
      "production": {
        "2015": 593331,
        "2016": 656817,
        "2017": 590684,
        "2018": 767280,
        "2019": 734795,
        "2020": 720660,
        "2021": 650612,
        "2022": 650612,
        "2023": 632117,
        "2024": 632702
      }
    },
    {
      "country": "Ecuador",
      "estimated": false,
      "production": {
        "2015": 180192,
        "2016": 177551,
        "2017": 205955,
        "2018": 235182,
        "2019": 283680,
        "2020": 327903,
        "2021": 302094,
        "2022": 337149,
        "2023": 375719,
        "2024": 403699
      }
    },
    {
      "country": "Nigeria",
      "estimated": true,
      "production": {
        "2015": 302066,
        "2016": 298029,
        "2017": 250000,
        "2018": 270000,
        "2019": 250000,
        "2020": 357608,
        "2021": 280000,
        "2022": 300000,
        "2023": 350000,
        "2024": 350000
      }
    },
    {
      "country": "Cameroon",
      "estimated": true,
      "production": {
        "2015": 310000,
        "2016": 344752,
        "2017": 322248,
        "2018": 317530,
        "2019": 301255,
        "2020": 310077,
        "2021": 295000,
        "2022": 295000,
        "2023": 300000,
        "2024": 320000
      }
    },
    {
      "country": "Brazil",
      "estimated": false,
      "production": {
        "2015": 278299,
        "2016": 213871,
        "2017": 235809,
        "2018": 239318,
        "2019": 259451,
        "2020": 269740,
        "2021": 302126,
        "2022": 301026,
        "2023": 296114,
        "2024": 297509
      }
    },
    {
      "country": "Peru",
      "estimated": false,
      "production": {
        "2015": 92592,
        "2016": 107922,
        "2017": 121814,
        "2018": 134676,
        "2019": 141775,
        "2020": 158944,
        "2021": 160522,
        "2022": 172705,
        "2023": 166936,
        "2024": 157253
      }
    },
    {
      "country": "Dominican Republic",
      "estimated": false,
      "production": {
        "2015": 75500,
        "2016": 81246,
        "2017": 86599,
        "2018": 85991,
        "2019": 76113,
        "2020": 77681,
        "2021": 70631,
        "2022": 75900,
        "2023": 59811,
        "2024": 57461
      }
    },
    {
      "country": "Papua New Guinea",
      "estimated": false,
      "production": {
        "2015": 36100,
        "2016": 38000,
        "2017": 36900,
        "2018": 33300,
        "2019": 35700,
        "2020": 40900,
        "2021": 41900,
        "2022": 42000,
        "2023": 43200,
        "2024": 45000
      }
    },
    {
      "country": "India",
      "estimated": true,
      "production": {
        "2015": 16000,
        "2016": 17000,
        "2017": 19000,
        "2018": 20000,
        "2019": 24000,
        "2020": 26000,
        "2021": 27000,
        "2022": 28000,
        "2023": 30000,
        "2024": 30388
      }
    },
    {
      "country": "Venezuela",
      "estimated": false,
      "production": {
        "2015": 24156,
        "2016": 24860,
        "2017": 27466,
        "2018": 26879,
        "2019": 28749,
        "2020": 27827,
        "2021": 27812,
        "2022": 29325,
        "2023": 29411,
        "2024": 29383
      }
    },
    {
      "country": "Madagascar",
      "estimated": true,
      "production": {
        "2015": 11535,
        "2016": 11179,
        "2017": 10834,
        "2018": 12000,
        "2019": 10175,
        "2020": 12564,
        "2021": 11000,
        "2022": 10234,
        "2023": 20000,
        "2024": 21000
      }
    },
    {
      "country": "Tanzania",
      "estimated": true,
      "production": {
        "2015": 16000,
        "2016": 13000,
        "2017": 13000,
        "2018": 15000,
        "2019": 7000,
        "2020": 14000,
        "2021": 14000,
        "2022": 12000,
        "2023": 15000,
        "2024": 15000
      }
    },
    {
      "country": "Belize",
      "estimated": false,
      "production": {
        "2015": 72,
        "2016": 85,
        "2017": 244,
        "2018": 110,
        "2019": 110,
        "2020": 112,
        "2021": 174,
        "2022": 376,
        "2023": 233,
        "2024": 225
      }
    }
  ]
}