plate 359 · 2024 data

Mexico grew only a quarter of the world's extra avocados

Change in avocado production, million tonnes, 3-year averages 2010–12 to 2022–24, 61 countries reporting in both periods. FAOSTAT.

Who feeds the world
  1. 1. Brazil has all but caught the US in farm exports
  2. 2. Brazil exports more chicken than the US and EU combined
  3. 3. India now ships over a third of world rice exports
  4. 4. Russia now exports twice as much wheat as the US
  5. 5. Egypt exports more fresh oranges than any other country
  6. 6. China buys three in ten of the world's beef imports
  7. 7. Farmed seafood now outweighs the wild catch
  8. 8. Spanish olive oil mill prices are back at 2021 levels
  9. 9. Ukraine sells a fifth less grain than before the war
  10. 10. Brazil overtook the US as the world's top cotton exporter
  11. 11. Laos now mines more potash than Israel or Jordan
  12. 12. India now grows more rice than China
  13. 13. Côte d'Ivoire grows more cashews than India
  14. 14. Indonesia set to use more palm oil than it exports
  15. 15. Mato Grosso grows more soy than China and India combined
  16. 16. Africa now has more hungry people than Asia
  17. 17. Vietnam now drinks more coffee than Russia
  18. 18. Nigeria now eats more rice than Japan
  19. 19. Ecuador is now the world's second-biggest cocoa bean exporter
  20. 20. Mexico, home of maize, imports more of it than anyone
  21. 21. Cuba now imports more raw sugar than it exports
  22. 22. Japan's fish catch fell to a quarter of its peak
  23. 23. Chicken gives Egyptians twice the calories beef does
  24. 24. Brazil overtook the US as the world's top beef producer
  25. 25. Sub-Saharan Africa doubled its grain, mostly by farming more land
  26. 26. Pakistan now imports about as much cotton as it grows
  27. 27. Malaysia's world palm oil share fell from 37% to 25%
  28. 28. Indonesia now uses a sixth less rice per person
  29. 29. 12 countries switched to farming more fish than they catch
  30. 30. India rose from seventh to third among wild-fish catchers
  31. 31. Argentina went from buying no soybeans to top three
  32. 32. China's share of world cotton imports halved, to a fifth
  33. 33. Viet Nam became the world's third-biggest corn importing country
  34. 34. Nigeria is now Brazil's biggest supplier of urea fertiliser
  35. 35. Saudi Arabia now raises two-thirds of the chicken it eats
  36. 36. 15 countries switched to importing more corn than they grow
  37. 37. Thailand lost the top rice supplier spot in 18 countries
  38. 38. Viet Nam lost top coffee supplier status in 12 countries
  39. 39. Ethiopia's wheat harvest nearly doubled, mostly from higher yields
  40. 40. Mexico grew only a quarter of the world's extra avocados
25.5%

Mexico's share of the world's added avocado output, 2010–12 to 2022–24. Its share of the total fell from 30% to 27%.

54%

came from five other countries: Colombia 15%, Dominican Republic 12%, Peru 11%, Indonesia 10%, Kenya 6%.

4.1m → 10.1m t

output in the 61 countries reporting in both periods. Colombia's grew from 0.23m to 1.15m t.

Source: FAO, FAOSTAT Crops and livestock products: avocados, production, 2024
the numbers & method

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FAO, FAOSTAT, Crops and livestock products (QCL), avocados (item 572), production in tonnes, annual, read from FAOSTAT via the progrss vault (GUIDELINES §4.11, faostat passes value_checks). Values are FAOSTAT's official, estimated or imputed figures as published (the six named countries are FAO official figures except Kenya 2024 (estimate); some values among the other 55 countries (Ethiopia 2023–24, Haiti, Lebanon, Australia 2010, among others) are FAO estimates or imputations). Method (progrss calculation): average of 2010, 2011, 2012 vs average of 2022, 2023, 2024, for the 61 countries with data in all six years; the 33 countries that report only in the later period (together 0.42m t, 4% of the 2022–24 world total of 10.49m t, among them Viet Nam 0.20m t) are left out so the set is fixed. Totals of the 61: 4.077m t and 10.069m t, change +5.992m t (+147%). Change in million tonnes: Mexico +1.53 (1.23 to 2.76), Colombia +0.92 (0.23 to 1.15), Dominican Republic +0.70 (0.29 to 0.99), Peru +0.64 (0.22 to 0.86), Indonesia +0.62 (0.26 to 0.89), Kenya +0.37 (0.17 to 0.54), 55 others +1.21. Shares of the change: 25.5, 15.4, 11.7, 10.7, 10.4, 6.2, 20.1 per cent; the five countries other than Mexico sum to 54.4%. Mexico's share of the 61-country total: 30.1% to 27.4%. Parts are rounded to 0.01m t and add to 5.99m t. Production, not trade: the Netherlands and Spain re-export avocados, so export tables overstate them. Dominican Republic output jumped in 2023–24 (0.74m t in 2022, 1.02m t in 2023, 1.23m t in 2024); the 3-year average smooths this. No cause is claimed. Country-level avocado output is partly estimated by national agencies and FAO; treat shares as indicative to a point or two. One further country (West Bank and Gaza) lacks 2023–24 and is also left out.

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