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Countries by cucumber production in 2020

This is a list of countries by cucumber production from the years 2016 to 2020, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The estimated total world production for cucumbers in 2020 was 91,258,272 metric tonnes, up 3.7% from 87,976,103 tonnes in 2019. China was by far the largest producer, accounting for nearly 80% of global production at 72,779,781 tonnes. Dependent territories are shown in italics.

Production by country

>500,000 tonnes

Rank	Country/region	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
1	China	72,779,781	70,338,971	67,601,863	65,238,282	62,806,010
2	Turkey	1,926,883	1,959,849	1,890,904	1,827,782	1,811,681
3	Russia	1,686,976	1,626,412	1,604,346	1,504,965	1,493,293
4	Iran	1,205,679	664,843	650,882	751,160	1,681,784
5	Mexico	1,159,934	826,485	1,072,048	956,005	886,270
6	Ukraine	1,012,530	1,034,170	985,120	896,280	948,900
7	Uzbekistan	812,728	855,058	857,076	813,591	939,882
8	Spain	794,880	739,200	643,660	634,824	630,980
9	United States	646,414	750,680	700,820	857,870	785,663
10	Egypt	613,031	566,155	366,661	393,432	483,971
11	Japan	539,200	548,100	550,000	559,500	550,300
12	Kazakhstan	537,775	494,672	460,110	409,700	404,028

100,000–500,000 tonnes

Rank	Country/region	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
13	Poland	442,600	519,400	538,680	543,726	538,057
14	Indonesia	441,286	435,973	433,923	424,933	430,218
15	Netherlands	430,170	410,250	410,410	400,000	370,000
16	South Korea	335,596	366,065	391,214	341,364	333,760
17	Cameroon	314,752	303,114	293,442	317,107	282,773
18	Sudan	307,103	292,735	225,848	216,166	248,800
19	Tajikistan	262,855	235,747	211,612	178,035	161,390
20	Iraq	242,614	149,302	138,353	96,664	91,487
21	Azerbaijan	226,929	248,891	223,790	220,903	217,843
22	Belarus	216,982	230,793	226,443	236,618	248,690
23	Germany	216,970	249,920	267,590	256,689	260,915
24	Jordan	211,419	163,484	208,226	190,847	280,158
25	Algeria	184,362	166,045	193,647	171,610	138,481
26	Syria	182,415	136,567	129,929	129,696	99,485
27	India	174,774	174,251	175,830	174,241	172,681
28	Thailand	173,052	174,672	175,184	169,301	179,531
29	Greece	158,510	149,740	155,480	142,289	152,799
30	France	143,270	139,140	137,850	145,981	176,379
31	Bangladesh	130,259	119,136	112,974	121,254	109,475
32	Kyrgyzstan	129,122	130,007	119,569	118,282	117,131
33	Lebanon	120,093	121,830	120,868	110,147	98,350
34	Romania	117,440	118,630	138,610	201,001	186,471
35	Albania	113,685	126,632	120,351	110,210	94,279
36	Palestine	107,120	109,411	112,997	128,720	127,628
37	Oman	102,682	73,983	73,267	62,977	39,185
38	Malaysia	101,482	103,363	85,134	88,492	97,621

50,000–100,000 tonnes

Rank	Country/region	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
39	Mali	98,751	72,944	79,031	68,882	65,211
40	Kuwait	88,923	96,391	58,591	70,436	78,448
41	Israel	87,760	94,604	101,846	103,425	106,706
42	Cuba	81,712	92,624	106,708	148,497	132,219
43	Tunisia	69,277	69,240	69,452	69,139	69,129
44	North Korea	67,264	67,171	67,078	67,033	66,888
45	Italy	60,690	60,600	54,090	54,444	59,903
46	Finland	59,910	56,130	55,330	50,763	49,450
47	United Kingdom	58,410	58,240	55,080	52,968	52,965
48	Canada	57,306	59,612	57,295	62,204	64,280
49	United Arab Emirates	57,052	91,903	71,350	53,915	35,427
50	Bulgaria	53,630	72,970	74,350	54,398	66,653
51	Peru	52,026	45,448	44,288	47,668	56,016
52	Taiwan	51,331	48,968	51,224	51,264	47,926

10,000–50,000 tonnes

Rank	Country/region	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
53	North Macedonia	49,112	51,019	54,314	51,532	53,265
54	Morocco	46,416	57,448	47,787	48,735	42,383
55	Austria	46,330	45,270	44,850	46,581	47,450
56	Pakistan	46,014	77,573	68,664	65,597	59,203
57	Armenia	43,231	44,141	50,599	74,336	84,869
58	Sri Lanka	42,229	39,044	49,767	33,128	38,290
59	Colombia	40,216	40,982	38,742	33,664	22,053
60	Sweden	38,520	37,900	35,790	38,100	42,150
61	Bosnia and Herzegovina	38,108	34,344	35,463	37,191	41,691
62	Chile	36,546	36,446	36,250	36,943	36,147
63	Turkmenistan	33,994	33,867	34,182	33,934	33,485
64	Georgia	32,800	30,400	33,000	23,000	18,700
65	Serbia	31,281	29,711	42,539	57,957	55,059
66	South Africa	30,132	29,122	26,767	28,640	27,896
67	Honduras	29,393	31,123	33,891	34,228	32,627
68	Belgium	27,600	27,470	24,490	25,530	23,580
69	Hungary	24,620	26,680	29,770	33,690	34,418
70	Moldova	23,699	44,583	23,020	21,644	17,273
71	Norway	21,190	18,475	17,462	16,484	17,460
72	Ivory Coast	20,721	20,744	20,767	20,573	20,230
73	Lithuania	19,560	22,370	16,140	19,232	17,909
74	Jamaica	19,431	18,742	19,216	18,387	19,006
75	Dominican Republic	17,335	16,625	16,212	15,579	15,237
76	Malawi	16,571	18,574	27,971	29,175	N/A
77	Denmark	16,400	16,520	16,540	16,173	19,792
78	Australia	14,997	15,268	15,538	16,178	15,899
79	Yemen	14,555	14,953	14,699	13,870	13,514
80	Switzerland	14,393	12,904	13,511	14,394	14,931
81	Portugal	13,880	10,370	9,230	9,557	9,635
82	Philippines	13,538	13,628	13,444	13,290	13,143
83	Saudi Arabia	12,824	81,880	70,326	111,431	108,549
84	Venezuela	12,143	12,031	14,485	16,460	16,705
85	Czech Republic	11,160	15,230	14,380	20,792	21,006

1,000–10,000 tonnes

Rank	Country/region	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
86	Libya	8,601	8,664	8,469	8,670	8,854
87	Latvia	7,900	7,250	6,300	7,321	8,471
88	Cyprus	7,210	8,060	9,660	8,303	10,926
89	Croatia	7,020	3,000	4,420	10,622	7,847
90	El Salvador	6,637	7,104	2,297	4,901	5,817
91	Mongolia	6,054	4,707	3,761	3,922	3,734
92	Kenya	5,925	4,708	3,609	6,686	1,244
93	Estonia	5,290	7,230	6,350	10,285	8,439
94	Mauritius	5,270	6,131	7,840	8,377	6,969
95	Bolivia	4,738	4,764	4,686	4,442	4,884
96	Ecuador	4,633	4,620	4,656	4,622	4,583
97	Slovakia	3,200	4,920	3,680	5,335	5,283
98	Slovenia	3,090	2,410	2,450	2,425	2,662
99	Qatar	2,952	2,461	1,761	1,199	1,302
100	Panama	2,914	2,876	2,880	2,860	2,840
101	Guyana	2,817	2,916	2,981	2,922	2,479
102	Bahrain	2,816	2,773	2,651	2,640	2,062
103	Hong Kong	1,915	1,910	1,905	1,928	1,924
104	Ireland	1,850	1,730	1,650	1,649	1,600
105	Iceland	1,808	1,924	1,927	1,800	1,868
106	Ethiopia	1,645	1,636	1,656	1,644	1,608
107	Costa Rica	1,635	1,636	1,634	1,634	1,641
108	Brunei	1,514	1,740	1,985	2,301	2,551
109	Dominica	1,393	1,394	1,381	1,405	1,397
110	Fiji	1,298	1,286	1,275	1,293	1,242
111	Trinidad and Tobago	1,227	973	769	830	1,157
112	East Timor	1,127	1,117	1,148	1,116	1,088
113	Suriname	1,100	1,295	1,731	1,730	1,687
114	Puerto Rico	1,055	1,024	994	1,127	1,027

<1,000 tonnes

Rank	Country/region	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
115	Cape Verde	884	1,411	1,135	1,470	1,863
116	Barbados	849	933	677	715	765
117	Saint Lucia	848	727	908	950	848
118	Grenada	795	1,071	1,115	937	2,088
119	Malta	740	810	770	807	893
120	Niger	663	458	73	1,023	439
121	French Polynesia	637	639	634	638	644
122	New Zealand	595	582	514	517	542
123	Belize	378	219	341	472	400
124	Democratic Republic of the Congo	375	373	368	383	367
125	Zimbabwe	209	240	240	240	240
126	Ghana	132	131	132	132	130
127	Antigua and Barbuda	82	80	80	80	83
128	Madagascar	60	101	140	186	208
129	Saint Kitts and Nevis	39	93	49	47	20
130	Luxembourg	10	10	10	27	25
131	Djibouti	7	7	7	7	7
132	Nauru	1	1	1	1	N/A