Countries by cocoa bean production
Côte d’Ivoire had the highest cocoa bean production of 57 countries in 2017, at 2,034,000 tonnes. Suriname had the lowest, at 4 tonnes. The median was 3,500 tonnes and the figure for the World was 5,235,269 tonnes. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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All countries, 2017
Full ranking
| Rank | Countries | 2017 | Change on 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Côte d’Ivoire | 2,034,000 | +24.5% |
| 2 | Ghana | 969,300 | +12.9% |
| 3 | Indonesia | 590,684 | -10.1% |
| 4 | Cameroon | 322,248 | -6.5% |
| 5 | Nigeria | 250,000 | -16.1% |
| 6 | Brazil | 235,809 | +10.3% |
| 7 | Ecuador | 205,955 | +16% |
| 8 | Peru | 121,814 | +12.9% |
| 9 | Colombia | 89,282 | +57.2% |
| 10 | Dominican Republic | 86,599 | +6.6% |
| 11 | Sierra Leone | 48,903 | +2.5% |
| 12 | Papua New Guinea | 36,900 | -2.9% |
| 13 | Uganda | 35,000 | 0% |
| 14 | Venezuela | 27,466 | +10.5% |
| 15 | Mexico | 27,287 | +1.6% |
| 16 | Guinea | 19,900 | +142.7% |
| 17 | India | 19,000 | +11.8% |
| 18 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 13,500 | +32.4% |
| 19 | Tanzania | 13,000 | 0% |
| 20 | Liberia | 12,000 | -64.7% |
| 21 | Guatemala Estimated | 11,830 | +2.3% |
| 22 | Madagascar | 10,834 | -3.1% |
| 23 | Togo | 8,500 | -15% |
| 24 | Philippines | 7,009 | +11.9% |
| 25 | Nicaragua | 6,600 | +27.3% |
| 26 | Bolivia | 5,518 | -10.2% |
| 27 | Solomon Islands | 4,600 | +2.2% |
| 28 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 3,501 | +16.7% |
| 29 | Republic of the Congo | 3,500 | -7.9% |
| 30 | Haiti | 2,500 | -82.6% |
| 31 | Sri Lanka | 1,485 | -13.8% |
| 32 | Honduras | 1,100 | +14% |
| 33 | Malaysia | 1,012 | -41.3% |
| 34 | Dominica | 1,000 | -41.2% |
| 34 | Equatorial Guinea | 1,000 | 0% |
| 36 | Vanuatu | 913 | -54.4% |
| 37 | Grenada | 700 | -12.5% |
| 38 | Panama | 660 | -1.2% |
| 39 | Costa Rica | 545 | -16.2% |
| 40 | Guyana Estimated | 480 | +1.9% |
| 41 | Samoa Estimated | 480 | +0.3% |
| 42 | Angola Estimated | 448 | +2.2% |
| 43 | Trinidad and Tobago | 397 | +7.6% |
| 44 | El Salvador | 350 | -3.8% |
| 45 | Jamaica | 305 | -58% |
| 46 | Cuba | 245 | -88.1% |
| 47 | Belize | 244 | +187.1% |
| 48 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estimated | 221 | +0.9% |
| 49 | Timor-Leste Estimated | 178 | +2.5% |
| 50 | Central African Republic Estimated | 131 | +3.1% |
| 51 | Thailand Estimated | 125 | +4.2% |
| 52 | Gabon | 100 | 0% |
| 53 | Comoros Estimated | 43 | +2.3% |
| 54 | Micronesia Estimated | 32 | -0.8% |
| 55 | Saint Lucia | 21 | -8.7% |
| 56 | Fiji | 12 | +252.9% |
| 57 | Suriname Estimated | 4 | -7.1% |
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About this ranking
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.
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.
Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. 5 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2017 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.
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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.Citation styles
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (2025). Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cocoa beans, production, t (item 661, element 5510) (Countries by cocoa bean production, 2017) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip
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Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cocoa beans, production, t (item 661, element 5510), Countries by cocoa bean production, 2017. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 31 Dec. 2025, https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/cocoa-production/countries?period=2017. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cocoa beans, production, t (item 661, element 5510), Countries by cocoa bean production, 2017 [Dataset]. Available at: https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/cocoa-production/countries?period=2017 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).
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Which country has the highest cocoa bean production?
Côte d’Ivoire, with 2,034,000 tonnes in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Which country has the lowest cocoa bean production?
Suriname, with 4 tonnes in 2017.
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Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cocoa beans, production, t (item 661, element 5510). Retrieved 2026-10-12. 5 countries have no value for 2017 and are not ranked.