Malaysia's world palm oil share fell from 37% to 25%
Share of world palm oil production, USDA marketing years 2010/11 to 2024/25: Malaysia, Indonesia and all others.
- 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
- 19. Ecuador is now the world's second-biggest cocoa bean exporter
- 20. Mexico, home of maize, imports more of it than anyone
- 21. Cuba now imports more raw sugar than it exports
- 22. Japan's fish catch fell to a quarter of its peak
- 23. Chicken gives Egyptians twice the calories beef does
- 24. Brazil overtook the US as the world's top beef producer
- 25. Sub-Saharan Africa doubled its grain, mostly by farming more land
- 26. Pakistan now imports about as much cotton as it grows
- 27. Malaysia's world palm oil share fell from 37% to 25%
- 28. Indonesia now uses a sixth less rice per person
- 29. 12 countries switched to farming more fish than they catch
- 30. India rose from seventh to third among wild-fish catchers
Malaysia's share of world palm oil in 2024/25, down from 36.9% in 2010/11. Its output grew only 6%, to 19.4 million tonnes.
Indonesia's share, up from 47.8%. It nearly doubled its output, to 45.5 million tonnes, more than twice Malaysia's.
Malaysia's part of the world's extra palm oil since 2010/11 (78.9 vs 49.4 million tonnes); Indonesia supplied 74%.
the numbers & method
| Malaysia (%) | Indonesia (%) | All others (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010/11 | 36.9 | 47.8 | 15.3 |
| 2014/15 | 32.0 | 53.1 | 14.8 |
| 2019/20 | 26.2 | 57.9 | 15.8 |
| 2024/25 | 24.5 | 57.6 | 17.8 |
Claim types Fact
USDA FAS PSD, Oil, Palm, production (1,000 tonnes), editions data as of 2026-10 (2019/20 on) and 2026-05 (2010/11 to 2018/19), US government work, read from USDA PSD via the progrss vault (loaded from apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline). USDA local marketing years. World = sum of the 73 to 74 countries USDA reports (progrss calculation; shares derived). Values, million tonnes: 2010/11 world 49.4, Malaysia 18.2, Indonesia 23.6; 2014/15 world 62.1, Malaysia 19.9, Indonesia 33.0; 2019/20 world 73.4, Malaysia 19.3, Indonesia 42.5; 2024/25 world 78.9, Malaysia 19.4, Indonesia 45.5. 2025/26 is a USDA estimate (Malaysia 20.2 of 81.4, 24.8%), so the chart stops at 2024/25. Malaysia's output was between 17.7 and 20.8 million tonnes in every year from 2010/11 to 2025/26. Increase 2010/11 to 2024/25: world +29.6, Indonesia +21.9 (74%), Malaysia +1.2 (4%), all others (Thailand, Colombia, Nigeria and others) +6.5. Production only; this plate says nothing about trade or use. Live re-read of the USDA PSD page was not possible in this run (fetch refused); vault rule GUIDELINES §4.11 applies.
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