Countries by cocoa bean production

Côte d’Ivoire had the highest cocoa bean production of 58 countries in 2020, at 2,200,000 tonnes. Suriname had the lowest, at 5 tonnes. The median was 2,500 tonnes and the figure for the World was 5,683,749 tonnes. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest2,200,000Côte d’Ivoire

Lowest5Suriname

Median2,50058 countries

World5,683,749History

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tonnes, 2020. 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, 2020

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	2020 tonnes	Change on 2019
1	Côte d’Ivoire	2,200,000	-1.6%
2	Ghana	800,000	-1.4%
3	Indonesia	720,660	-1.9%
4	Nigeria	357,608	+43%
5	Ecuador	327,903	+15.6%
6	Cameroon	310,077	+2.9%
7	Brazil	269,740	+4%
8	Peru	158,944	+12.1%
9	Dominican Republic	77,681	+2.1%
10	Sierra Leone Estimated	65,000	+343.7%
11	Colombia	63,416	-37.9%
12	Papua New Guinea	40,900	+14.6%
13	Uganda	35,000	0%
14	Mexico	29,429	+3.4%
15	Venezuela	27,827	-3.2%
16	Democratic Republic of the Congo	26,337	+19.4%
17	India	26,000	+8.3%
18	Guinea	22,400	+3.7%
19	Liberia	18,000	+38.5%
20	Tanzania	14,000	+100%
21	Togo	13,000	+22.6%
22	Madagascar	12,564	+23.5%
23	Guatemala Estimated	11,806	+1.5%
24	Philippines	9,341	+10%
25	Nicaragua	7,508	+2.2%
26	Republic of the Congo	7,500	-34.8%
27	Bolivia	5,875	+0.7%
28	Solomon Islands	4,500	+7.1%
29	São Tomé and Príncipe	3,000	0%
30	Haiti	2,000	-50%
30	Honduras	2,000	+100%
30	Vietnam	2,000	-33.3%
33	Cuba	1,577	-12.3%
34	Sri Lanka	1,455	-2.9%
35	Dominica	1,000	0%
35	Equatorial Guinea	1,000	0%
37	Costa Rica	800	0%
38	Vanuatu	745	-32.5%
39	Malaysia	706	-30.6%
40	Panama	673	-10.1%
41	Grenada	539	-14.8%
42	Guyana Estimated	491	+0.8%
43	Samoa Estimated	480	+0.1%
44	Angola Estimated	469	+1.2%
45	El Salvador Estimated	375	+1.7%
46	Trinidad and Tobago	246	-41%
47	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estimated	227	+0.5%
48	Jamaica	193	-40.8%
49	Timor-Leste Estimated	180	+3%
50	Central African Republic Estimated	136	+3%
51	Thailand Estimated	123	+2.2%
52	Belize	112	+1.8%
53	Gabon	100	0%
54	Comoros Estimated	44	+1.5%
55	Micronesia Estimated	31	-0.2%
56	Saint Lucia	18	-10%
57	Fiji	9	-44.8%
58	Suriname Estimated	5	-1.3%

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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. 4 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2020 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, 2020) [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, 2020. 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=2020. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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}

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Which country has the highest cocoa bean production?

Côte d’Ivoire, with 2,200,000 tonnes in 2020, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Which country has the lowest cocoa bean production?

Suriname, with 5 tonnes in 2020.

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. 4 countries have no value for 2020 and are not ranked.