Cocoa Bean Production by Country
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.
About This Dataset
Cocoa Bean Production by Country
This historical comparison follows cocoa bean production in 14 selected countries at five benchmark years: 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020 and 2024. It contains 70 observations. The gaps between these dates are not filled with annual observations, so the chart cannot establish what happened in every intervening year. The original country selection is retained; it is not a complete world ranking.
The figures match FAOSTAT’s Crops and Livestock Products series as processed by Our World in Data, using the source snapshot retrieved on 25 February 2026. Source tonnes are divided by 1,000 and rounded to the nearest whole thousand tonnes. The displayed precision is therefore coarser than the source data; changes and ratios calculated from these rounded values are approximate. These are annual FAOSTAT production observations, not ICCO October–September cocoa-year estimates.
The measure is harvested cocoa beans, not chocolate production, exports, grinding, yield per hectare or farm income. A total or share calculated from these 14 countries describes this selection, not the whole world. The comparison shows changes in crop volume; it does not identify their causes or explain cocoa prices.
The figures match FAOSTAT’s Crops and Livestock Products series as processed by Our World in Data, using the source snapshot retrieved on 25 February 2026. Source tonnes are divided by 1,000 and rounded to the nearest whole thousand tonnes. The displayed precision is therefore coarser than the source data; changes and ratios calculated from these rounded values are approximate. These are annual FAOSTAT production observations, not ICCO October–September cocoa-year estimates.
The measure is harvested cocoa beans, not chocolate production, exports, grinding, yield per hectare or farm income. A total or share calculated from these 14 countries describes this selection, not the whole world. The comparison shows changes in crop volume; it does not identify their causes or explain cocoa prices.
Analysis
Ivory Coast leads in all five benchmark years shown. In 2024 the 14 displayed values total 4,951 thousand tonnes; Ivory Coast and Ghana together account for 2,420 thousand tonnes, or 48.9% of that selected total, not a world share. Between the 2020 and 2024 benchmarks, Ghana falls from 800 to 530 thousand tonnes (about 33.8%), while Ecuador rises from 328 to 404 (about 23.2%). These changes use rounded chart values and do not describe the path taken in the intervening years.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- FAOSTAT, processed by Our World in Data (five benchmark years)
- Coverage
- 14 entities · 1990–2024 (5 years) · 70 observations
- Measure
- Cocoa Bean Production (Thousand Tonnes)
- Last updated
- 18 October 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- 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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