Countries by cocoa bean production

Côte d’Ivoire had the highest cocoa bean production of 58 countries in 2023, at 1,822,441 tonnes. Suriname had the lowest, at 5 tonnes. The median was 3,250 tonnes and the figure for the World was 5,123,486 tonnes. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest1,822,441Côte d’Ivoire

Lowest5Suriname

Median3,25058 countries

World5,123,486History

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tonnes, 2023. 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, 2023

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	2023 tonnes	Change on 2022
1	Côte d’Ivoire	1,822,441	-22.7%
2	Ghana	653,700	-4.3%
3	Indonesia	632,117	-2.8%
4	Ecuador	375,719	+11.4%
5	Nigeria	350,000	+16.7%
6	Cameroon	300,000	+1.7%
7	Brazil	296,114	-1.6%
8	Peru	166,936	-3.3%
9	Colombia	59,831	-3.7%
10	Dominican Republic	59,811	-21.2%
11	Papua New Guinea	43,200	+2.9%
12	Democratic Republic of the Congo	42,000	+5%
13	Uganda	39,861	-8.1%
14	India	30,000	+7.1%
14	Liberia	30,000	+42.9%
16	Venezuela	29,411	+0.3%
17	Mexico	29,047	+3.3%
18	Guinea Estimated	23,739	-2.2%
19	Madagascar	20,000	+95.4%
19	Togo	20,000	+25%
21	Tanzania	15,000	+25%
22	Sierra Leone	12,080	-32.9%
23	Guatemala Estimated	11,727	+0.2%
24	Philippines	10,759	+3%
25	Republic of the Congo	10,000	0%
26	Nicaragua	9,317	-3.4%
27	Bolivia	5,971	+3.1%
28	São Tomé and Príncipe	4,000	+14.3%
28	Solomon Islands	4,000	0%
30	Haiti	2,500	0%
31	Honduras	2,000	0%
32	Cuba	1,668	+16.7%
33	Vanuatu	1,500	0%
33	Vietnam	1,500	-25%
35	Sri Lanka	1,321	+8.2%
36	Costa Rica	800	0%
37	Panama	562	-16.9%
38	Dominica	500	-50%
38	Equatorial Guinea	500	-50%
40	Guyana Estimated	488	+0.1%
41	Samoa Estimated	483	-0%
42	Angola Estimated	466	+0.1%
43	El Salvador Estimated	371	+0.2%
44	Grenada	364	-15.9%
45	Malaysia	269	-45.4%
46	Belize	233	-38%
47	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estimated	230	+0.5%
48	Timor-Leste Estimated	178	+0.4%
49	Jamaica	151	-42.5%
50	Central African Republic Estimated	136	+0.6%
51	Thailand Estimated	123	+0.4%
52	Fiji	118	-10.1%
53	Gabon	100	0%
54	Trinidad and Tobago	46	-69.7%
55	Comoros Estimated	44	+0.2%
56	Micronesia Estimated	31	-0.3%
57	Saint Lucia	18	-37.9%
58	Suriname Estimated	5	-0.2%

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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. 4 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2023 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, 2023) [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, 2023. 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=2023. 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, 2023. 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=2023.

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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, 2023 [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=2023 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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  title = {{Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cocoa beans, production, t (item 661, element 5510): Countries by cocoa bean production, 2023}},
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  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/cocoa-production/countries?period=2023. 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 1,822,441 tonnes in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Which country has the lowest cocoa bean production?

Suriname, with 5 tonnes in 2023.

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 2023 and are not ranked.