Watermelons — Production by country

Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area...

Countries reporting
143
Highest
63.64 million t
China
Lowest
0 t
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
Median
75,294 t
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
8,307

What the numbers show

Watermelons — Production is currently reported for 143 countries. The highest value is 63.64 million t in China; the lowest is 0 t in Netherlands (Kingdom of the).

The median across all reporting countries is 75,294 t, and the mean is 1.22 million t.

Over the past decade 81 countries rose and 50 fell. The largest increase was in Melanesia (up 3,401.4%), and the largest decrease in Romania (down 72.5%).

Watermelons — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China 63.64 million t 2024 up 3.1% volatile
2 China, mainland 63.51 million t 2024 up 3.3% volatile
3 USSR 4.95 million t 1991 up 26.4% rising
4 India 3.72 million t 2024 up 105.6% volatile
5 Türkiye 3.20 million t 2024 down 17.7% rising
6 Algeria 2.52 million t 2024 up 56.1% volatile
7 Brazil 1.98 million t 2024 down 8.9% volatile
8 Russian Federation 1.94 million t 2024 up 35.6% rising
9 Uzbekistan 1.73 million t 2024 up 2.0% volatile
10 Senegal 1.36 million t 2024 up 494.3% volatile
11 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 1.28 million t 2024 down 68.1% rising
12 Mexico 1.27 million t 2024 up 34.2% volatile
13 Viet Nam 1.24 million t 2024 up 12.8% volatile
14 Spain 1.22 million t 2024 up 42.4% rising
15 Afghanistan 1.18 million t 2024 up 291.6% volatile
16 Pakistan 1.15 million t 2024 up 113.3% volatile
17 Caribbean 1.09 million t 2024 up 260.2% volatile
18 Dominican Republic 1.02 million t 2024 up 366.3% volatile
19 Kazakhstan 967,260 t 2024 down 4.5% volatile
20 Italy 723,590 t 2024 up 59.7% falling
21 Egypt 712,514 t 2024 down 64.6% rising
22 Tajikistan 669,819 t 2024 up 22.7% volatile
23 Turkmenistan 650,528 t 2024 up 146.5% rising
24 Niger 646,397 t 2024 up 915.9% volatile
25 Saudi Arabia 608,478 t 2024 up 23.0% volatile
26 Greece 509,180 t 2024 up 16.3% rising
27 Tunisia 504,092 t 2024 down 3.1% volatile
28 Mali 488,121 t 2024 up 373.4% volatile
29 Yugoslav SFR 447,000 t 1991 down 29.0% rising
30 Republic of Korea 442,884 t 2024 down 35.5% volatile
31 Indonesia 421,009 t 2024 down 35.6% rising
32 Azerbaijan 339,709 t 2024 up 4.1% rising
33 Morocco 339,454 t 2024 down 53.2% volatile
34 Sudan (former) 323,200 t 2011 up 126.0% volatile
35 Serbia and Montenegro 313,542 t 2005 up 17.4% rising
36 Japan 290,386 t 2024 down 18.8% falling
37 Iraq 285,923 t 2024 down 4.8% falling
38 Albania 278,086 t 2024 up 28.6% volatile
39 Kyrgyzstan 235,995 t 2024 up 17.9% volatile
40 Libya 233,010 t 2024 up 2.8% rising
41 Melanesia 215,138 t 2024 up 3,401.4% volatile
42 Ukraine 210,100 t 2024 down 61.6% rising
43 Colombia 209,817 t 2024 up 9.9% volatile
44 Syrian Arab Republic 207,686 t 2024 down 10.1% volatile
45 Australia and New Zealand 201,921 t 2024 up 22.1% volatile
46 Australia 199,531 t 2024 up 22.5% volatile
47 Serbia 180,543 t 2024 down 21.0% falling
48 Yemen 177,426 t 2024 up 8.1% volatile
49 Peru 175,769 t 2024 up 92.4% volatile
50 Sudan 173,501 t 2024 down 49.9% falling
51 Hungary 171,150 t 2024 down 21.7% rising
52 Thailand 170,421 t 2024 up 7.3% falling
53 Kenya 169,744 t 2024 up 44.0% volatile
54 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 158,359 t 2024 down 39.0% volatile
55 Lao People's Democratic Republic 154,900 t 2024 down 2.5% volatile
56 Malaysia 153,749 t 2024 down 12.8% volatile
57 Zimbabwe 143,730 t 2024 up 54.6% rising
58 North Macedonia 136,721 t 2024 down 0.0% rising
59 China, Taiwan Province of 130,487 t 2024 down 38.3% rising
60 Romania 130,350 t 2024 down 72.5% falling
61 Philippines 128,948 t 2024 down 2.0% volatile
62 Argentina 125,303 t 2024 down 1.3% falling
63 Bulgaria 122,930 t 2024 up 265.2% volatile
64 Armenia 122,685 t 2024 down 50.1% volatile
65 Paraguay 119,525 t 2024 up 1.7% rising
66 Cameroon 112,157 t 2024 up 61.2% volatile
67 United Republic of Tanzania 102,931 t 2024 up 130.4% volatile
68 Oman 102,323 t 2024 up 475.2% volatile
69 Guinea 99,194 t 2024 up 56.4% rising
70 Israel 92,684 t 2024 up 1.9% volatile
71 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 91,427 t 2024 down 3.3% rising
72 Ecuador 75,294 t 2024 up 5.8% volatile
73 Honduras 68,260 t 2024 up 45.5% volatile
74 Jordan 67,026 t 2024 down 47.6% rising
75 Lebanon 64,421 t 2024 down 13.3% volatile
76 Costa Rica 63,140 t 2024 up 7.1% rising
77 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 60,454 t 2024 up 0.9% volatile
78 Guatemala 59,005 t 2024 down 51.8% volatile
79 El Salvador 48,746 t 2024 up 66.1% rising
80 Cuba 48,718 t 2024 down 23.1% rising
81 Chile 45,418 t 2024 up 3.4% volatile
82 Canada 42,565 t 2024 up 42.5% volatile
83 Panama 36,785 t 2024 down 3.8% volatile
84 Montenegro 35,669 t 2024 up 134.6% rising
85 Georgia 32,800 t 2024 down 54.8% rising
86 Guyana 30,777 t 2024 up 111.4% volatile
87 Portugal 30,730 t 2024 up 28.1% volatile
88 Croatia 29,130 t 2024 up 13.8% falling
89 Republic of Moldova 28,614 t 2024 down 36.3% volatile
90 France 22,870 t 2024 up 41.9% volatile
91 Palestine 22,839 t 2022 up 69.5% rising
92 Botswana 18,743 t 2024 up 342.6% rising
93 Jamaica 17,909 t 2024 up 31.5% volatile
94 Bosnia and Herzegovina 14,455 t 2024 up 1.5% volatile
95 Cyprus 12,550 t 2024 down 45.0% flat
96 Somalia 11,415 t 2024 up 219.0% volatile
97 Uruguay 11,101 t 2024 up 0.9% rising
98 Poland 8,600 t 2024 up 975.0% volatile
99 Fiji 8,320 t 2024 up 81.9% volatile
100 Puerto Rico 6,628 t 2024 up 26.3% volatile
101 French Guiana 3,629 t 2006 up 8.7% rising
102 Slovakia 3,600 t 2024 up 18.5% volatile
103 Namibia 3,503 t 2024 down 1.1% rising
104 Belize 3,292 t 2024 up 140.5% rising
105 Malta 3,260 t 2024 down 11.1% falling
106 Malawi 3,050 t 2024 down 18.4% falling
107 Mauritania 2,627 t 2024 down 11.8% volatile
108 Austria 2,410 t 2024 up 278.8% volatile
109 New Zealand 2,390 t 2024 down 5.7% rising
110 United Arab Emirates 2,325 t 2024 up 27.0% volatile
111 Polynesia 1,712 t 2024 down 2.5% flat
112 French Polynesia 1,204 t 2024 down 3.2% rising
113 Cabo Verde 1,080 t 2024 down 29.7% volatile
114 Solomon Islands 1,069 t 2024 up 0.8% rising
115 Suriname 1,061 t 2024 down 51.8% volatile
116 Qatar 1,058 t 2024 up 389.7% volatile
117 Guadeloupe 1,000 t 2006 down 3.8% rising
118 Kuwait 852 t 2024 down 45.7% volatile
119 Bahrain 850 t 2024 up 284.9% volatile
120 Grenada 760 t 2024 down 60.9% volatile
121 New Caledonia 749.02 t 2024 up 47.2% rising
122 Slovenia 580 t 2024 up 20.8% rising
123 Saint Lucia 522.43 t 2024 up 42.7% rising
124 Trinidad and Tobago 491 t 2024 down 0.8% volatile
125 Tonga 444.14 t 2024 down 1.1% falling
126 Brunei Darussalam 295.13 t 2024 up 101.8% volatile
127 Dominica 282.96 t 2024 up 28.6% rising
128 Saint Kitts and Nevis 151.35 t 2024 up 104.5% rising
129 Antigua and Barbuda 120.01 t 2024 rising
130 Djibouti 70.29 t 2024 up 1.6% volatile
131 Cook Islands 64.04 t 2024 down 0.6% volatile
132 Bhutan 48.57 t 2024 up 26.6% volatile
133 Belgium 0 t 2024 flat
133 Germany 0 t 2024 flat
133 Denmark 0 t 2024 flat
133 Estonia 0 t 2024 flat
133 Finland 0 t 2024 flat
133 Ireland 0 t 2024 flat
133 Lithuania 0 t 2024 flat
133 Luxembourg 0 t 2024 flat
133 Latvia 0 t 2024 flat
133 Sweden 0 t 2024 flat
133 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 0 t 2024 volatile

Regions and income groups

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

About this data

Indicator
Watermelons — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
175 places, 8,307 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.