Pork Production by Country 2024
Key Findings
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China leads in Pork Production (thousand tonnes) with 57,060 in 2024.
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Average Pork Production (thousand tonnes) in 2024: 4,621 · median: 1,414.
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Gap in 2024: China is 97.5× larger than Chile.
About This Dataset
Pork Production by Country 2024
What this chart shows. The 25 countries that produced the most pork in 2024, in thousands of tonnes. China led with 57,060 thousand tonnes, 45.5 per cent of the world's 125.4 million, followed by the United States with 12,611 thousand and Brazil with 5,359 thousand.
How the data is collected. The figures come from FAOSTAT, the statistics database of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, which collects national production data through annual questionnaires and fills gaps with its own estimates. The item is pig meat, measured as carcass weight with the bone in. China means mainland China; Taiwan and Hong Kong are listed separately.
Background. China produced 4.5 times as much pork as the United States. Europe is strongly represented: Spain, Germany, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy and Belgium are all in the top 25.
Limits. Russia's figure is imputed by FAO rather than reported, and Viet Nam's and South Korea's come from other organisations. The US Department of Agriculture's pork figures for China and the United States match FAO's.
How the data is collected. The figures come from FAOSTAT, the statistics database of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, which collects national production data through annual questionnaires and fills gaps with its own estimates. The item is pig meat, measured as carcass weight with the bone in. China means mainland China; Taiwan and Hong Kong are listed separately.
Background. China produced 4.5 times as much pork as the United States. Europe is strongly represented: Spain, Germany, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy and Belgium are all in the top 25.
Limits. Russia's figure is imputed by FAO rather than reported, and Viet Nam's and South Korea's come from other organisations. The US Department of Agriculture's pork figures for China and the United States match FAO's.
Analysis
Spain, fourth with 4,956 thousand tonnes, was the largest pork producer in Europe on this chart, ahead of Germany's 4,289 thousand.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Coverage
- 25 entities · 2024 · 25 observations
- Measure
- Pork Production (thousand tonnes)
- Last updated
- 29 September 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.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
An article using this data
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