EU countries by soybean production

Italy had the highest soybean production of 23 EU countries in 2020, at 1,005,630 tonnes. Malta had the lowest, at 0 tonnes. The median was 5,010 tonnes. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest1,005,630Italy

Lowest0Malta

Median5,01023 EU countries

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tonnes, 2020. 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).

All EU countries, 2020

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

Full ranking

Rank	EU countries	2020 tonnes	Change on 2019
1	Italy	1,005,630	-3.6%
2	France	406,810	-5.1%
3	Romania	340,820	-22.6%
4	Croatia	266,010	+8.9%
5	Austria	204,860	-5.9%
6	Hungary	165,760	-2.2%
7	Slovakia	132,200	+10.5%
8	Germany	90,500	+7.6%
9	Czechia	33,020	+18.6%
10	Poland	15,960	+2.7%
11	Bulgaria	6,200	-18.1%
12	Slovenia	5,010	+18.2%
13	Spain	4,620	-10.6%
14	Lithuania	2,560	+10.8%
15	Greece	1,840	-50.5%
16	Luxembourg	30	n/a
17	Cyprus	0	n/a
17	Denmark	0	n/a
17	Estonia	0	n/a
17	Finland	0	n/a
17	Ireland	0	n/a
17	Latvia	0	n/a
17	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 EU countries are compared on one definition. 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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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (2025). Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Soya beans, production, t (item 236, element 5510) (EU countries by soybean 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): Soya beans, production, t (item 236, element 5510), EU countries by soybean 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/soybean-production/eu-countries?period=2020. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2025. Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Soya beans, production, t (item 236, element 5510). EU countries by soybean production, 2020. 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/soybean-production/eu-countries?period=2020.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Soya beans, production, t (item 236, element 5510), EU countries by soybean production, 2020 [Dataset]. Available at: https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/soybean-production/eu-countries?period=2020 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/soybean-production/eu-countries?period=2020. 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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Which EU country has the highest soybean production?

Italy, with 1,005,630 tonnes in 2020, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Malta, with 0 tonnes in 2020.

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