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Capture fisheries production (metric tons), per square kilometre by country

Capture fisheries production (metric tons) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
212
Highest
4,535 metric tons per square kilometre
Nauru
Lowest
0 metric tons per square kilometre
Mongolia
Median
0.5811 metric tons per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
15,328

What the numbers show

Capture fisheries production (metric tons), per square kilometre is currently reported for 212 countries. The highest value is 4,535 metric tons per square kilometre in Nauru; the lowest is 0 metric tons per square kilometre in Mongolia.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.5811 metric tons per square kilometre, and the mean is 42.87 metric tons per square kilometre.

Over the past decade 96 countries rose and 111 fell. The largest increase was in Nauru (up 34,386.3%), and the largest decrease in Moldova (down 100.0%).

Capture fisheries production (metric tons), per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Nauru 4,535 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 34,386.3% volatile
2 Tuvalu 1,633 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 279.2% volatile
3 Faroe Islands 578.44 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 65.2% rising
4 Maldives 539.21 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 24.2% volatile
5 Marshall Islands 410.75 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 8.3% volatile
6 Kiribati 318 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 216.4% volatile
7 Seychelles 302.65 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 88.4% volatile
8 Micronesia (country) 236.21 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 308.1% volatile
9 Hong Kong 82.46 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 49.1% rising
10 Macao 45.45 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 8.2% volatile
11 Bahrain 20.68 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 17.4% volatile
12 Mauritius 17.93 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 352.2% volatile
13 Bangladesh 15.87 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 33.2% volatile
14 Iceland 14.36 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 4.3% rising
15 South Korea 14.2 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 13.9% rising
16 Denmark 12.38 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 25.9% falling
17 Channel Islands 11.05 metric tons per square kilometre 2021 down 26.5% rising
18 Grenada 11.01 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 31.0% rising
19 Vietnam 10.96 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 30.3% volatile
20 Belize 8.67 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 469.6% volatile
21 Japan 8.18 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 20.3% falling
22 Netherlands 7.95 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 18.2% rising
23 British Virgin Islands 7.51 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 6.3% volatile
24 Comoros 7.46 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 68.3% volatile
25 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 7.44 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
26 Antigua and Barbuda 7.42 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 29.1% volatile
27 Norway 6.98 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 12.9% flat
28 Malta 6.29 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 14.5% volatile
29 American Samoa 6.24 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 54.6% volatile
30 Isle of Man 6.08 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 39.6% volatile
31 Bermuda 5.94 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 30.4% volatile
32 Sao Tome and Principe 5.88 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 35.1% volatile
33 Philippines 5.76 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 22.1% rising
34 Vanuatu 5.69 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 1.9% volatile
35 Gambia 5.48 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 26.8% volatile
36 Sri Lanka 5.47 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 25.7% volatile
37 Curacao 5.07 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 91.4% falling
38 Indonesia 4.15 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 26.5% volatile
39 Malaysia 3.94 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 13.4% rising
40 Samoa 3.79 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 4.7% volatile
41 French Polynesia 3.64 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 12.6% volatile
42 Saint Martin (French part) 3.6 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
43 Uganda 3.57 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 70.9% volatile
44 Chile 3.5 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 13.5% volatile
45 Brunei 3.36 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 526.2% volatile
46 Ireland 3.27 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 18.4% volatile
47 Morocco 3.21 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 12.5% volatile
48 Cambodia 3.13 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 14.1% volatile
49 Saint Lucia 3.04 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 7.0% rising
50 Georgia 3.03 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 1,256.8% volatile
51 Thailand 3.03 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 17.4% rising
52 United Kingdom 2.97 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 13.4% falling
53 Panama 2.95 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 3.7% rising
54 Gibraltar 2.87 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 2,773.9% volatile
55 Sierra Leone 2.87 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 0.9% volatile
56 Ecuador 2.8 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 36.5% volatile
57 Peru 2.75 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 40.1% falling
58 Senegal 2.74 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 12.4% rising
59 El Salvador 2.69 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 6.9% volatile
60 Saint Kitts and Nevis 2.6 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 96.2% volatile
61 Trinidad and Tobago 2.56 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 0.8% volatile
62 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2.55 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 97.5% volatile
63 Myanmar 2.49 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 15.4% volatile
64 Turks and Caicos Islands 2.48 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 17.2% rising
65 Oman 2.28 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 242.7% volatile
66 Malawi 2.26 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 80.9% volatile
67 Cape Verde 2.2 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 75.4% volatile
68 Barbados 2.17 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 68.6% falling
69 Guinea-Bissau 2.12 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 406.3% volatile
70 India 2.08 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 32.4% rising
71 Estonia 1.79 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 12.3% falling
72 Portugal 1.79 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 16.7% falling
73 Fiji 1.76 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 24.5% volatile
74 Palau 1.75 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 9.4% volatile
75 North Korea 1.73 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 0.4% volatile
76 Ghana 1.69 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 32.8% rising
77 Guinea 1.69 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 80.1% volatile
78 Qatar 1.65 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 59.7% volatile
79 Lithuania 1.64 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 12.8% flat
80 Tonga 1.58 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 40.0% volatile
81 Spain 1.53 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 22.1% falling
82 Solomon Islands 1.49 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 13.6% volatile
83 China 1.41 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 15.2% volatile
84 Rwanda 1.37 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 50.4% volatile
85 United States Virgin Islands 1.24 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 11.2% volatile
86 New Zealand 1.24 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 26.4% volatile
87 Jamaica 1.16 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 31.7% rising
88 Latvia 1.07 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 42.4% falling
89 Croatia 1 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 25.9% rising
90 Greenland 0.9679 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 3.9% rising
91 Mexico 0.9494 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 13.4% rising
92 Aruba 0.9444 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 17.2% volatile
93 France 0.8817 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 11.7% falling
94 Nigeria 0.878 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 10.9% volatile
95 Bahamas 0.8691 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 31.8% rising
96 United Arab Emirates 0.837 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 18.8% rising
97 Burundi 0.7671 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 48.9% rising
98 Azerbaijan 0.7628 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 31.1% volatile
99 Tunisia 0.694 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 1.8% rising
100 Dominica 0.692 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 1.5% flat
101 Pakistan 0.6616 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 5.2% rising
102 Mauritania 0.6435 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 71.0% volatile
103 Mozambique 0.6046 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 94.8% volatile
104 Haiti 0.5958 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 0.5% volatile
105 Turkey 0.59 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 21.4% rising
106 Belgium 0.5898 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 30.3% falling
107 Costa Rica 0.5724 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 57.5% rising
108 Poland 0.5609 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 17.5% volatile
109 Papua New Guinea 0.5529 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 7.2% volatile
110 Tanzania 0.5434 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 26.3% rising
111 Palestine 0.5411 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 68.8% volatile
112 Germany 0.5222 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 22.5% volatile
113 Cayman Islands 0.5208 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
114 Nicaragua 0.5103 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 49.9% volatile
115 United States 0.5083 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 16.0% rising
116 Greece 0.4886 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 1.8% falling
117 Cameroon 0.4851 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 10.8% volatile
118 Monaco 0.4798 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 2.7% volatile
119 Iran 0.4797 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 41.2% volatile
120 Benin 0.462 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 22.8% rising
121 Namibia 0.4532 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 31.2% volatile
122 Angola 0.4434 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 35.8% volatile
123 East Timor 0.4366 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 81.3% volatile
124 Italy 0.4339 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 27.9% falling
125 South Africa 0.4316 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 3.6% falling
126 Egypt 0.4262 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 18.9% volatile
127 Finland 0.4235 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 23.4% rising
128 Togo 0.4088 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 11.1% rising
129 Colombia 0.3841 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 54.1% volatile
130 Uruguay 0.3834 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 13.2% rising
131 Sweden 0.3797 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 18.1% falling
132 Albania 0.3654 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 11.6% rising
133 Dominican Republic 0.3586 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 31.4% rising
134 Laos 0.3315 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 96.4% volatile
135 Russia 0.3296 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 23.5% rising
136 Argentina 0.3177 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 2.4% volatile
137 Liberia 0.2931 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 87.1% rising
138 Yemen 0.286 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 34.0% volatile
139 Lebanon 0.262 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 13.5% rising
140 Equatorial Guinea 0.257 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 4.1% rising
141 Singapore 0.2423 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 96.2% volatile
142 Puerto Rico 0.2423 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 12.4% falling
143 Madagascar 0.2406 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 33.8% rising
144 Cote d'Ivoire 0.2399 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 24.4% rising
145 Zimbabwe 0.2378 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 33.3% volatile
146 Kenya 0.2319 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 22.1% volatile
147 New Caledonia 0.2172 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 1.6% rising
148 Venezuela 0.2091 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 17.9% volatile
149 Northern Mariana Islands 0.199 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 42.1% falling
150 Suriname 0.1985 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 10.3% volatile
151 Honduras 0.1857 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 62.2% volatile
152 Guyana 0.1819 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 54.8% volatile
153 Congo 0.1764 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 17.9% volatile
154 Zambia 0.1593 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 11.1% rising
155 Kuwait 0.158 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 34.6% falling
156 Somalia 0.158 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 230.3% volatile
157 Nepal 0.1465 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 2.3% volatile
158 Djibouti 0.1374 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 87.2% volatile
159 Cyprus 0.1325 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 3.5% volatile
160 Cuba 0.1307 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 38.4% volatile
161 Guatemala 0.1243 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 24.7% volatile
162 Ethiopia 0.1164 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 242.5% volatile
163 Gabon 0.1161 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 18.2% volatile
164 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.1155 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 15.1% rising
165 Uzbekistan 0.1151 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 266.9% volatile
166 Guam 0.1134 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 43.6% volatile
167 Burkina Faso 0.1107 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 47.7% volatile
168 Israel 0.0977 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 6.7% volatile
169 Iraq 0.0971 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 25.9% rising
170 Mali 0.0922 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 13.2% rising
171 Chad 0.0866 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 9.2% rising
172 Brazil 0.0859 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 9.4% rising
173 Canada 0.0825 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 25.1% falling
174 South Sudan 0.0791 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 35.1% rising
175 Bulgaria 0.0618 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 30.7% volatile
176 Montenegro 0.0607 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 48.4% falling
177 Hungary 0.0504 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 29.5% falling
178 Ukraine 0.0492 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 86.0% volatile
179 Central African Republic 0.0466 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 3.3% volatile
180 Paraguay 0.0454 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 38.5% volatile
181 Czechia 0.0437 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 10.4% falling
182 Algeria 0.0397 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 6.3% volatile
183 Armenia 0.039 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 72.9% volatile
184 Niger 0.039 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 9.7% volatile
185 Switzerland 0.0386 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 24.0% falling
186 Saudi Arabia 0.0348 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 3.8% rising
187 Slovakia 0.0344 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 16.6% rising
188 Turkmenistan 0.0324 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 1.4% rising
189 Australia 0.0296 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 19.2% rising
190 Serbia 0.0294 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 49.0% falling
191 Romania 0.0287 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 26.7% volatile
192 Syria 0.0242 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 7.3% volatile
193 Sudan 0.0219 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 21.5% rising
194 Libya 0.0188 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 6.6% volatile
195 Tajikistan 0.0187 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 122.4% volatile
196 Kazakhstan 0.0158 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 22.9% flat
197 Eritrea 0.0154 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 48.6% volatile
198 Bolivia 0.0146 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 77.0% volatile
199 Slovenia 0.013 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 34.6% volatile
200 North Macedonia 0.0111 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 16.2% rising
201 Jordan 0.0075 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 22.6% volatile
202 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.006 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
203 Austria 0.0042 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
204 Eswatini 0.0038 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 8.3% rising
205 Afghanistan 0.0031 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 37.9% volatile
206 Belarus 0.0027 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 20.6% volatile
207 Lesotho 0.0024 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 48.0% volatile
208 Botswana 0.0018 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 76.5% volatile
209 Kyrgyzstan 0.0002 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 73.3% volatile
210 Bhutan 0.0001 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 up 66.6% volatile
211 Moldova 0 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
211 Mongolia 0 metric tons per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Capture fisheries production (metric tons) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Capture fisheries production (metric tons) Γ· Land area (sq. km)

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  • Capture fisheries production Food and Agriculture Organization., Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.

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Indicator
Capture fisheries production (metric tons), per square kilometre
Unit
metric tons per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
264 places, 15,328 data points, 1961–2023
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Capture fisheries production (metric tons) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.