Soybean Production by Country
About This Dataset
Soybean Production by Country
Brazil has overtaken the United States to become the world's largest soybean producer, growing output more than sevenfold since 1990 while the United States roughly doubled its own. Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia expanded on a similar scale, making South America collectively dominant in a crop the United States led for most of the twentieth century. The driver is largely Chinese demand: soybeans are crushed for animal feed, and China imports more than the rest of the world combined.
Analysis
Brazil (144,474), United States (118,836) and Argentina (48,213) take the top three in Soybean Production (Thousand Tonnes) in 2024. Brazil and United States together hold 67.5% of the combined total of all 14 entities. Only 2 of the 14 reach even half the leader's figure (72,237 or more). Over 2000–2024 the steepest rise belongs to Ukraine: +10267.2% (64 → 6,635). Italy is the only entity to fall over the period, down 35.7%. First place changed hands 1 time across the period.
Source:
FAOSTAT
Key Findings
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Brazil leads in Soybean Production (Thousand Tonnes) with 144,474 in 2024.
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Ukraine grew fastest: +10,267.2% from 2000 to 2024 (64 → 6,635).
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Italy declined most: -35.7% from 1990 to 2024 (1,751 → 1,126).
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Average Soybean Production (Thousand Tonnes) in 2024: 27,858 · median: 7,284.
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2024 recorded the highest combined total across all categories.
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Gap in 2024: Brazil is 128.3× larger than Italy.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- FAOSTAT
- Coverage
- 14 entities · 1990–2024 (5 years) · 68 observations
- Measure
- Soybean 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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