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Countries by eggplant (aubergine) production in 2020

This is a list of countries by eggplant (aubergine) 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 eggplants in 2020 was 56,618,843 metric tonnes, up by 2.2% from 55,376,521 tonnes in 2019. China was by far the largest producer of eggplants, accounting for nearly 65% of global production at 36,557,611 tonnes. Dependent territories are shown in italics.

Production by country

Rank	Country/region	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
1	China	36,557,611	35,590,700	34,482,916	33,481,649	32,476,992
2	India	12,777,000	12,680,000	12,801,000	12,510,000	12,515,000
3	Egypt	1,341,312	1,347,230	1,179,173	1,376,303	1,300,265
4	Turkey	835,422	822,659	836,284	883,917	854,049
5	Indonesia	618,202	575,392	551,529	535,436	509,749
6	Iran	595,336	594,136	605,597	586,275	590,537
7	Italy	304,690	300,620	298,310	286,473	317,585
8	Japan	297,000	301,700	300,400	307,800	306,000
9	Spain	282,200	245,150	238,330	225,912	242,643
10	Philippines	242,730	249,890	244,838	241,901	235,626
11	Iraq	207,202	136,749	104,402	94,483	102,452
12	Syria	180,002	154,807	143,304	139,939	139,504
13	Algeria	178,417	184,145	181,618	155,878	126,851
14	Sri Lanka	141,882	134,863	129,212	108,856	127,194
15	Kazakhstan	125,054	108,065	95,233	85,635	83,325
16	Mexico	112,195	185,234	179,656	184,872	172,112
17	Ivory Coast	109,052	106,085	102,995	99,000	96,300
18	Mali	99,841	81,644	80,528	96,943	88,806
19	Pakistan	99,416	89,724	87,587	84,255	83,529
20	United States	97,164	96,866	97,467	97,159	95,971
21	Sudan	96,887	94,574	91,960	89,046	87,300
22	Rwanda	83,186	77,499	79,533	20,000	22,743
23	Azerbaijan	80,637	81,479	79,724	77,817	87,981
24	Romania	74,040	79,660	88,150	127,763	116,225
25	Ukraine	67,910	66,420	68,510	74,790	84,200
26	Netherlands	65,000	62,000	55,000	53,000	54,000
27	Greece	60,980	54,910	70,940	50,548	56,751
28	Morocco	60,913	68,266	52,754	52,966	22,721
29	Saudi Arabia	57,434	50,344	45,161	23,850	25,844
30	Jordan	51,966	55,630	61,254	65,319	74,613
31	Ghana	51,323	51,310	51,301	51,357	51,273
32	North Korea	49,152	48,951	48,749	48,648	48,243
33	Palestine	49,062	49,117	50,116	49,996	47,098
34	Guyana	46,411	46,147	47,992	46,170	44,612
35	Israel	45,000	49,154	51,404	48,996	49,447
36	Oman	39,226	30,895	32,214	32,062	10,068
37	Kuwait	36,321	39,385	27,602	32,075	24,801
38	Taiwan	35,344	34,874	34,561	32,015	24,653
39	Albania	34,680	31,122	31,491	27,898	31,896
40	Malawi	32,070	30,569	29,242	26,664	N/A
41	France	28,830	29,570	31,990	30,089	31,779
42	Dominican Republic	27,464	27,821	26,851	24,955	24,211
43	United Arab Emirates	27,367	26,982	20,859	20,486	15,633
44	Lebanon	26,976	28,161	34,728	35,277	23,018
45	Honduras	20,554	19,000	17,000	15,000	12,573
46	Thailand	17,486	18,351	19,199	19,283	20,000
47	Uzbekistan	17,428	17,483	16,000	14,212	12,651
48	Niger	16,363	11,029	8,512	8,886	6,974
49	Venezuela	15,845	14,919	19,627	14,188	19,516
50	Belgium	11,400	10,580	10,120	8,100	8,100
51	Bulgaria	9,920	11,180	11,260	11,908	7,905
52	Colombia	7,607	6,944	5,658	4,177	3,714
53	Portugal	6,500	5,660	6,850	5,267	5,089
54	Qatar	5,770	5,393	2,902	3,829	3,346
55	South Korea	5,135	5,179	5,059	5,168	5,309
56	Yemen	4,783	4,906	4,757	4,670	4,891
57	Senegal	4,363	4,406	4,278	4,404	4,535
58	Moldova	4,183	5,401	5,022	4,352	4,195
59	Fiji	4,147	2,526	2,424	1,366	1,138
60	Georgia	4,100	4,400	3,700	2,600	4,200
61	Mauritius	3,496	3,385	2,495	3,099	2,738
62	Poland	3,100	0	N/A	N/A	N/A
63	Libya	2,901	2,957	2,786	2,960	3,126
64	Republic of the Congo	2,549	2,555	2,551	2,539	2,575
65	Trinidad and Tobago	2,325	1,467	488	915	1,717
66	Cameroon	2,177	2,170	2,184	2,176	2,151
67	Serbia	2,044	2,046	2,047	2,038	2,046
68	Madagascar	1,771	1,762	1,787	1,763	1,735
69	Bahrain	1,437	1,418	1,394	1,234	1,237
70	Austria	1,420	1,170	1,130	1,062	976
71	Cyprus	1,350	1,230	1,710	2,192	2,517
72	North Macedonia	960	956	969	955	942
73	Puerto Rico	901	897	893	893	893
74	Haiti	859	857	855	854	851
75	Malta	850	860	840	792	810
76	Hungary	830	800	990	826	897
77	Tunisia	694	691	700	691	683
78	Kyrgyzstan	567	617	563	522	767
79	Slovenia	560	500	330	N/A	N/A
80	Peru	437	356	476	261	361
81	Bhutan	429	300	245	643	585
82	Jamaica	352	357	385	405	461
83	Brunei	341	292	283	623	610
84	Hong Kong	269	268	268	270	272
85	Gabon	220	219	221	219	217
86	New Caledonia	198	146	183	187	168
87	Slovakia	110	N/A	210	N/A	N/A
88	Costa Rica	93	93	93	92	94
89	Djibouti	57	56	56	55	53
90	Antigua and Barbuda	34	239	274	306	342
91	Sweden	20	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
92	Nauru	1	1	0	0	N/A