# Cocoa bean production

Quantity of cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted produced in the calendar year, in tonnes, as published in FAOSTAT's crops and livestock products domain. Countries report to FAO through its annual production questionnaire; FAO fills gaps with official publications and its own estimates.

## Key facts

- Cocoa bean production in the World was 5,233,245 tonnes in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- Côte d’Ivoire had the highest cocoa bean production of 57 countries in 2024, at 1,890,442 tonnes, and Suriname the lowest, at 5 tonnes. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- Published for 63 places, with figures from 1961 to 2024.
- Figures last updated on 2026-10-12.

- Indicator id: `cocoa_bean_production`
- Unit: tonnes
- Note: FAO fills gaps in national reporting with its own estimates and imputations, which are marked as estimated, and revises past years when countries send new figures.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/en/cocoa-production
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/indicators/cocoa_bean_production

## Latest figures

| Place | Period | tonnes | Source |
|---|---|---:|---|
| World | 2024 | 5,233,245 | FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cocoa beans, production, t (item 661, element 5510). Accessed on 2026-10-12. https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip Licence: CC-BY-4.0. FAO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data. |

## Rankings

- [Countries](https://invokely.ai/rankings/cocoa-production/countries.md) (62 places)