Cocoa Bean Production by Country
About This Dataset
Cocoa Bean Production by Country
Ivory Coast grows more cocoa than the next three countries combined, and together with Ghana accounts for well over half the world's supply. That concentration is why West African weather and West African farmgate prices drive the global chocolate market, and why disease or drought in a single region can move cocoa futures to record highs. Ecuador and Peru have both expanded fast, largely in fine-flavour varieties that sell into a different market from the bulk West African crop.
Analysis
Ivory Coast (1,890), Indonesia (633) and Ghana (530) take the top three in Cocoa Bean Production (Thousand Tonnes) in 2024. Ivory Coast and Indonesia together hold 51% of the combined total of all 14 entities. Only 1 of the 14 reaches even half the leader's figure (945 or more). It takes the next 4 entities (Indonesia, Ghana, Ecuador, Nigeria) added together to match Ivory Coast. Over 1990–2024 the steepest rise belongs to Uganda: +5400% (1 → 55). Ivory Coast has held first place in every year covered here.
Source:
FAOSTAT
Key Findings
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Ivory Coast leads in Cocoa Bean Production (Thousand Tonnes) with 1,890 in 2024.
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Uganda grew fastest: +5,400% from 1990 to 2024 (1 → 55).
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Average Cocoa Bean Production (Thousand Tonnes) in 2024: 354 · median: 228.
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2020 recorded the highest combined total across all categories.
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Gap in 2024: Ivory Coast is 42× larger than Papua New Guinea.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- FAOSTAT
- Coverage
- 14 entities · 1990–2024 (5 years) · 70 observations
- Measure
- Cocoa Bean Production (Thousand Tonnes)
- Last updated
- 16 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
- Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
- The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
- An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.
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Data Sources & References
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