Countries by cocoa bean production

Côte d’Ivoire had the highest cocoa bean production of 57 countries in 2018, at 2,113,189 tonnes. Suriname had the lowest, at 5 tonnes. The median was 3,300 tonnes and the figure for the World was 5,505,867 tonnes. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest2,113,189Côte d’Ivoire

Lowest5Suriname

Median3,30057 countries

World5,505,867History

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tonnes, 2018. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cocoa beans, production, t (item 661, element 5510). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

All countries, 2018

tonnes. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cocoa beans, production, t (item 661, element 5510). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2018 tonnes	Change on 2017
1	Côte d’Ivoire	2,113,189	+3.9%
2	Ghana	904,700	-6.7%
3	Indonesia	767,280	+29.9%
4	Cameroon	317,530	-1.5%
5	Nigeria	270,000	+8%
6	Brazil	239,318	+1.5%
7	Ecuador	235,182	+14.2%
8	Peru	134,676	+10.6%
9	Colombia	97,978	+9.7%
10	Dominican Republic	85,991	-0.7%
11	Sierra Leone	50,150	+2.5%
12	Uganda	35,000	0%
13	Papua New Guinea	33,300	-9.8%
14	Mexico	28,399	+4.1%
15	Venezuela	26,879	-2.1%
16	Guinea	20,700	+4%
17	India	20,000	+5.3%
18	Democratic Republic of the Congo	18,475	+36.9%
19	Tanzania	15,000	+15.4%
20	Madagascar	12,000	+10.8%
21	Guatemala Estimated	11,576	-2.1%
22	Liberia	11,000	-8.3%
23	Philippines	7,983	+13.9%
24	Togo	7,500	-11.8%
25	Nicaragua	6,939	+5.1%
26	Bolivia	5,846	+5.9%
27	Solomon Islands	4,700	+2.2%
28	Republic of the Congo	4,500	+28.6%
29	Haiti	3,300	+32%
30	São Tomé and Príncipe	3,046	-13%
31	Sri Lanka	2,115	+42.4%
32	Honduras	1,500	+36.4%
33	Cuba	1,012	+313.1%
34	Dominica	1,000	0%
34	Equatorial Guinea	1,000	0%
36	Vanuatu	999	+9.4%
37	Malaysia	826	-18.4%
38	Grenada	800	+14.3%
39	Panama	567	-14.1%
40	Costa Rica	550	+0.9%
41	Guyana Estimated	483	+0.5%
42	Samoa Estimated	479	-0.2%
43	Angola Estimated	457	+2.1%
44	El Salvador	363	+3.7%
45	Trinidad and Tobago	361	-9.1%
46	Jamaica	235	-23%
47	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estimated	223	+1%
48	Timor-Leste Estimated	174	-2.3%
49	Central African Republic Estimated	140	+6.9%
50	Thailand Estimated	124	-0.5%
51	Belize	110	-54.9%
52	Gabon	100	0%
53	Comoros Estimated	43	+0.7%
54	Micronesia Estimated	32	-0.4%
55	Saint Lucia	17	-19%
56	Fiji	16	+33.3%
57	Suriname Estimated	5	+2.2%

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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 2018 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.

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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, 2018) [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, 2018. 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=2018. 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, 2018. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/cocoa-production/countries?period=2018.

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  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/cocoa-production/countries?period=2018. Publisher attribution: 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.},
}

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Which country has the highest cocoa bean production?

Côte d’Ivoire, with 2,113,189 tonnes in 2018, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Which country has the lowest cocoa bean production?

Suriname, with 5 tonnes in 2018.

Where does this ranking come from?

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 2018 and are not ranked.