Ivory Coast and Ghana produced about 2.42 million tonnes of cocoa beans in 2024, accounting for 46.3% of world production in the cited FAOSTAT dataset, processed by Our World in Data. That is a large share, but less than half of the world crop.
Use the world total as the denominator
Ivory Coast produced 1,890,442 tonnes and Ghana 530,000 tonnes. Their combined 2,420,442 tonnes divided by the source's world total of 5,233,245.5 tonnes gives 46.3%, rounded to one decimal place. The historical cocoa chart covers fourteen selected countries and five benchmark years. Its displayed country total is not the world total.
Within that selection, Indonesia, Ghana and Ecuador produced about 1.57 million tonnes combined in 2024, below Ivory Coast's 1.89 million. This comparison concerns cocoa beans, not finished chocolate.
How output changed from 1990 to 2024
On the same annual data basis, Ivory Coast's production rose from 807,501 tonnes to 1,890,442 tonnes, an increase of 134.1%. Ghana rose from 293,355 to 530,000 tonnes, up 80.7%. Indonesia's output increased by 344.5% and Ecuador's by 317.4%. These are changes between two benchmark years, not steady annual growth rates.
Annual data and cocoa seasons answer different questions
The figures above use annual 2024 observations from the FAOSTAT series retrieved by Our World in Data on 25 February 2026. They may be revised. ICCO uses an October-to-September cocoa year. The separate 2024/25 ICCO annual-report projection snapshot therefore has a different reporting basis and estimate status; the two series should not be combined.
Production tonnage shows the distribution of crop output. It does not by itself establish chocolate price movements, farmers' share of retail prices or the effects of trade policies.
Source and calculation
FAOSTAT cocoa bean production, processed by Our World in Data, source update 25 February 2026, annual observations through 2024. World share is the two-country sum divided by the source's World observation; growth is the change from 1990 divided by the 1990 value. Percentages are rounded to one decimal place.