World Cocoa beans production: country ranking and trends
World Cocoa beans ranking with the latest FAOSTAT data, production, yields, harvested area and country detail pages.
World total (sum of available countries)5.22M t2024
Countries57
#1Ivory Coast1.89M t
10-year change+10.1 %2014 → 2024
What the data show
In 2024, the sum of available national Cocoa beans production reaches 5.22M t. Ivory Coast ranks first with 1.89M t, about 36.2 % of the calculated world total. Over ten years, available world production changed by +10.1 %.
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Which country produces the most Cocoa beans?
Ivory Coast ranks #1 for 2024 with 1.89M t.
How is the world total for Cocoa beans calculated?
Terra Cultiva sums the available national observations for the same reference year.
Are these data real time?
No. Terra Cultiva is a historical observatory based on FAOSTAT releases; the latest available year is shown on each page.
World leaders
| Rank | Country | Production | World share |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Ivory Coast | 1.89M t | 36.2 % |
| #2 | Indonesia | 632.7k t | 12.1 % |
| #3 | Ghana | 530.0k t | 10.1 % |
| #4 | Ecuador | 403.7k t | 7.7 % |
| #5 | Nigeria | 350.0k t | 6.7 % |
| #6 | Cameroon | 320.0k t | 6.1 % |
| #7 | Brazil | 297.5k t | 5.7 % |
| #8 | Peru | 157.3k t | 3.0 % |
| #9 | Sierra Leone | 93.7k t | 1.8 % |
| #10 | Colombia | 67.7k t | 1.3 % |
| #11 | Dominican Republic | 57.5k t | 1.1 % |
| #12 | Uganda | 55.0k t | 1.1 % |
| #13 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 50.0k t | 1.0 % |
| #14 | Papua New Guinea | 45.0k t | 0.9 % |
| #15 | India | 30.4k t | 0.6 % |
| #16 | Liberia | 30.0k t | 0.6 % |
| #17 | Venezuela | 29.4k t | 0.6 % |
| #18 | Mexico | 28.4k t | 0.5 % |
| #19 | Togo | 25.0k t | 0.5 % |
| #20 | Guinea | 24.2k t | 0.5 % |
Production
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