Côte d'Ivoire grows more cashews than India
Cashew nuts in shell, thousand tonnes, 2014 and 2024, the six largest growers in FAOSTAT.
- 1. Brazil has all but caught the US in farm exports
- 2. Brazil exports more chicken than the US and EU combined
- 3. India now ships over a third of world rice exports
- 4. Russia now exports twice as much wheat as the US
- 5. Egypt exports more fresh oranges than any other country
- 6. China buys three in ten of the world's beef imports
- 7. Farmed seafood now outweighs the wild catch
- 8. Spanish olive oil mill prices are back at 2021 levels
- 9. Ukraine sells a fifth less grain than before the war
- 10. Brazil overtook the US as the world's top cotton exporter
- 11. Laos now mines more potash than Israel or Jordan
- 12. India now grows more rice than China
- 13. Côte d'Ivoire grows more cashews than India
- 14. Indonesia set to use more palm oil than it exports
- 15. Mato Grosso grows more soy than China and India combined
- 16. Africa now has more hungry people than Asia
- 17. Vietnam now drinks more coffee than Russia
- 18. Nigeria now eats more rice than Japan
Côte d'Ivoire harvested 944,673 tonnes of cashews in 2024, against India's 794,910.
Its harvest grew 72% from 2014 (an FAO estimate) while India's rose 6%; Côte d'Ivoire first passed India in 2020.
Africa grew 61% of the world's cashews in 2024, up from 51% in 2014.
the numbers & method
| 2014 (kt) | 2024 (kt) | |
|---|---|---|
| Côte d'Ivoire | 550 | 945 |
| India | 753 | 795 |
| Tanzania | 130 | 528 |
| Viet Nam | 245 | 306 |
| Ghana | 50 | 219 |
| Benin | 202 | 213 |
Claim types Fact · Estimate
Read on the FAOSTAT API (faostatservices.fao.org, domain QCL, item 217 'Cashew nuts, in shell', production, tonnes), 4 Nov 2026 session. Values 2014 / 2024 (t): Côte d'Ivoire 550,000 (flag E, FAO estimate) / 944,673; India 753,000 / 794,910; Tanzania 130,124 / 528,262; Viet Nam 245,003 / 306,185; Ghana 50,000 / 218,575.53 (flag I, FAO imputed); Benin 201,818 / 212,624. All other values official (flag A). Crossing: Côte d'Ivoire 634,631 vs India 743,000 in 2019; 848,700 vs 703,000 in 2020 (first year ahead), and ahead every year since (1,225,935 vs 782,000 in 2023). World 2,983,336 t (2014) and 4,241,104 t (2024); Africa 1,508,327 t (2014, flag E) and 2,577,476 t (2024). Shares, growth rates and the crossing year are progrss calculations. Replaces the vault lead 'Ghana passes Brazil/Indonesia in cassava' (candidates 1664/1665): Ghana passed Brazil in 2017 and Indonesia in 2018, and its 2022-2024 cassava values are FAO-imputed (flag I). Cambodia, a large grower, is not covered by FAOSTAT. Côte d'Ivoire's 2024 harvest was 23% below its 2023 record (1,225,935 t). From the 2015 official value (703 kt) growth to 2024 is 34%.
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