Countries by soybean production

The United States had the highest soybean production of 105 countries in 2018, at 120,514,490 tonnes. Malta had the lowest, at 0 tonnes. The median was 27,681 tonnes and the figure for the World was 347,660,574 tonnes. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest120,514,490United States

Lowest0Malta

Median27,681105 countries

World347,660,574History

Map of countries, 2018

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tonnes, 2018. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Soya beans, production, t (item 236, element 5510). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Top 40 countries, 2018

tonnes. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Soya beans, production, t (item 236, element 5510). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2018 tonnes	Change on 2017
1	United States	120,514,490	+0.4%
2	Brazil	117,912,450	+2.8%
3	Argentina	37,787,927	-31.3%
4	China	15,967,100	+4.5%
5	India	13,267,519	+21.4%
6	Paraguay	11,045,971	+5.4%
7	Canada	7,416,600	-3.9%
8	Ukraine	4,460,770	+14.4%
9	Russia	4,026,850	+11.2%
10	Bolivia	2,942,131	+10.1%
11	South Africa	1,540,000	+17%
12	Uruguay	1,334,000	-58.5%
13	Italy	1,186,350	+16.3%
14	Nigeria	1,053,560	+6%
15	Indonesia	953,571	+77%
16	Serbia	645,607	+40%
17	Romania	492,680	+25.2%
18	France	398,480	-4%
19	Mexico	324,011	-25.2%
20	Zambia	302,720	-13.9%
21	Ethiopia	272,223	+28%
22	Kazakhstan	255,437	+1.2%
23	Croatia	245,190	+18%
24	Benin	221,977	+34.7%
25	Japan	211,300	-16.5%
26	Austria	186,490	-3.6%
27	Hungary	181,240	+1.1%
28	Ghana	176,700	+3.6%
29	Malawi	175,475	-15.9%
30	Iran	160,000	+14.3%
31	Myanmar	143,717	-1.2%
32	Türkiye	140,000	0%
33	North Korea	135,280	-39.4%
34	Uganda	108,000	+284.4%
35	Slovakia	106,960	+4.4%
36	Bangladesh	98,699	+1.8%
37	Togo Estimated	92,373	+53.1%
38	Colombia	92,231	+15.1%
39	Cambodia	91,800	+25.2%
40	South Korea	89,410	+4.4%
41	Vietnam	81,348	-20.1%
42	Zimbabwe	69,688	+91%
43	Cameroon	59,681	+3.9%
44	Germany	58,700	-11.1%
45	Moldova	57,684	+24%
46	Mozambique	55,000	+10%
47	Egypt	46,997	+29.2%
48	Thailand	41,165	-3.9%
49	Guatemala	38,000	0%
50	Angola	35,266	-2%
51	Burkina Faso	31,314	+69.3%
52	Australia	28,903	-7.8%
53	Nepal	27,681	-4.8%
54	Ecuador	25,504	-27.1%
55	Czechia	25,260	-31.8%
56	Democratic Republic of the Congo	24,427	+10.3%
57	Bosnia and Herzegovina	23,332	+98.7%
58	Rwanda	22,809	-4.7%
59	Tanzania	21,321	+247.5%
60	Venezuela	11,951	+52.2%
61	Belize	11,776	-9.7%
62	Uzbekistan	11,399	+85.7%
63	Poland	10,390	-48.8%
64	Laos	8,380	+5.3%
65	Mali	6,693	+15.4%
66	Nicaragua	5,693	0%
67	Slovenia	5,330	-30.9%
68	El Salvador Estimated	5,189	-2.3%
69	Bulgaria	4,730	-76.3%
70	Taiwan	4,404	-5.8%
71	Spain	4,350	-5.4%
72	Gabon Estimated	3,981	+1.8%
73	Switzerland	3,740	-33.7%
74	Lithuania	3,450	n/a
75	Liberia Estimated	3,319	+2%
76	Kyrgyzstan	2,872	-18.2%
77	Greece	2,520	-68.9%
78	Sri Lanka	2,500	-82.6%
79	Kenya	2,398	-4.8%
80	Burundi	2,387	+10.1%
81	Honduras Estimated	2,180	-1.4%
82	Georgia	2,000	0%
83	Syria	1,727	-55.7%
84	Peru	1,530	-3.3%
85	Morocco Estimated	1,000	0%
86	Timor-Leste Estimated	888	-1.2%
87	Albania	744	+48.8%
88	Philippines	658	-1.3%
89	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	570	+11.9%
90	Bhutan	107	-47.2%
91	Panama Estimated	95	-4.9%
92	North Macedonia Estimated	64	+86.9%
93	Madagascar Estimated	47	+0.5%
94	Iraq Estimated	35	+7.6%
95	Azerbaijan Estimated	29	+1.1%
96	Pakistan	28	+47.4%
97	French Polynesia	23	n/a
98	Tajikistan Estimated	21	+2%
99	Suriname	7	0%
100	Cyprus	0	n/a
100	Denmark	0	n/a
100	Estonia	0	n/a
100	Ireland	0	n/a
100	Latvia	0	n/a
100	Malta	0	n/a

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About this ranking

Quantity of soybeans harvested dry 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. 13 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): Soya beans, production, t (item 236, 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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Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Soya beans, production, t (item 236, element 5510), Countries by soybean 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/soybean-production/countries?period=2018. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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  author = {{Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations}},
  title = {{Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Soya beans, production, t (item 236, element 5510): Countries by soybean production, 2018}},
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  url = {https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/soybean-production/countries?period=2018. Publisher attribution: FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Soya beans, production, t (item 236, 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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The United States, with 120,514,490 tonnes in 2018, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Which country has the lowest soybean production?

Malta, with 0 tonnes in 2018.

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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): Soya beans, production, t (item 236, element 5510). Retrieved 2026-10-12. 13 countries have no value for 2018 and are not ranked.

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