List of countries by eggplant production facts for kids

This map shows which countries produced the most eggplants in 2020.

This article shares facts about how much eggplant (also called aubergine) different countries grew between 2017 and 2022. This information comes from a big database called the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database.

In 2022, the world produced a huge amount of eggplants: over 59 million metric tonnes! That's like 59 million small cars! This was a little more than the year before. China grew the most eggplants by far, making almost 65% of all eggplants grown globally. That's over 38 million tonnes! Some places listed are "dependent territories," which means they are governed by another country; these are shown in italic writing.

Top Eggplant Producers

This table shows the countries that grew the most eggplants each year from 2017 to 2022. The numbers are in metric tonnes. You can see how much each country produced and how their production changed over these years.

Rank	Country/region	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017
1	China	38,284,897	37,398,440	36,581,247	35,590,700	34,482,916	33,408,032
2	India	12,765,000	12,874,000	12,682,000	12,680,000	12,801,000	12,510,000
3	Egypt	1,396,725	1,414,860	1,278,350	1,347,230	1,179,173	1,376,303
4	Turkey	781,242	832,938	835,422	822,659	836,284	883,917
5	Indonesia	691,738	676,339	618,202	575,392	551,529	535,436
6	Bangladesh	618,542	587,000	558,000	530,610	516,007	507,432
7	Iran	595,943	598,356	595,336	594,136	605,597	586,275
8	Italy	307,430	306,440	304,690	300,620	298,310	286,473
9	Japan	294,600	297,700	297,000	301,700	300,400	307,800
10	Spain	276,320	265,290	282,200	245,150	238,330	225,912
11	Philippines	248,151	244,035	242,730	249,890	244,838	241,901
12	Algeria	207,549	192,893	178,417	184,145	181,618	155,878
13	Uzbekistan	203,889	210,300	188,000	169,200	73,900	60,364
14	Iraq	183,056	215,687	207,202	136,749	104,402	94,483
15	Syria	141,122	165,033	180,002	154,807	170,901	168,106
16	Sri Lanka	128,249	129,516	141,882	134,863	129,212	108,856
17	Kazakhstan	125,193	128,413	125,054	108,065	95,233	85,635
18	Saudi Arabia	118,850	112,000	109,138	50,344	25,384	23,850
19	Ivory Coast	110,845	107,512	109,052	106,085	102,995	99,000
20	Mexico	108,358	125,531	112,195	185,234	179,656	184,872
21	Mali	106,845	92,801	99,841	81,644	80,528	96,943
22	United States	98,585	98,560	98,973	98,223	98,484	100,212
23	Pakistan	95,001	106,177	100,184	89,724	87,587	84,255
24	Azerbaijan	91,675	88,932	80,637	81,479	79,724	77,817
25	Rwanda	89,265	94,292	83,186	77,499	79,533	51,032
26	Sudan	87,834	87,663	88,009	87,832	87,149	89,046
27	Jordan	79,854	72,307	57,356	55,630	61,254	65,319
28	Netherlands	66,000	63,000	65,000	62,000	55,000	53,000
29	Romania	64,560	95,860	88,420	79,660	88,150	127,763
30	Morocco	60,998	81,044	60,913	68,266	52,754	52,966
31	Armenia	57,348	65,123	62,408	43,900	51,300	84,500
32	Guyana	52,852	47,060	46,411	46,147	47,992	46,170
33	Ghana	52,685	52,362	52,111	53,581	51,394	51,359
34	North Korea	49,588	49,388	49,188	49,067	48,741	48,455
35	Palestine	48,731	46,356	49,060	48,490	49,247	49,279
36	Malaysia	46,129	42,732	39,786
37	Greece	44,500	60,030	60,980	54,910	70,940	50,548
38	France	42,480	44,260	57,060	29,570	31,990	30,089
39	Israel	38,622	51,194	47,431	49,154	51,404	48,996
40	Oman	38,004	36,349	39,226	30,895	32,214	32,062
41	Kuwait	35,514	29,533	21,596	39,385	27,602	32,075
42	Malawi	35,064	34,021	32,020	30,551	29,242	26,664
43	Albania	33,890	35,425	34,680	31,122	31,491	27,898
44	Taiwan	33,357	33,988	35,344	34,874	34,561	32,015
45	Ukraine	30,350	59,480	67,910	66,420	68,510	74,790
46	Lebanon	26,775	27,750	26,980	31,630	33,740	35,277
47	Dominican Republic	25,389	24,597	24,741	27,821	26,851	24,955
48	Thailand	21,032	20,931	21,236	20,927	20,629	22,153
49	Honduras	18,963	18,863	20,552	19,000	17,000	15,000
50	Venezuela	16,429	15,566	15,260	14,919	13,487	14,188
51	United Arab Emirates	15,158	17,761	20,571	26,982	20,859	20,486
52	Niger	14,967	15,878	16,363	11,029	8,512	8,886
53	Belgium	13,800	14,160	11,400	10,580	10,120	8,100
54	Colombia	13,584	15,556	16,569	6,944	5,658	4,177
55	Bulgaria	9,690	7,800	9,920	11,180	11,260	11,908
56	Fiji	7,128	4,689	4,147	2,526	2,424	1,366
57	Moldova	6,200	4,800	4,183	5,401	5,022	4,352
58	Qatar	5,684	6,248	5,770	5,393	2,902	3,829
59	Portugal	5,390	10,160	6,500	5,660	6,850	5,267
60	South Korea	5,141	5,118	5,131	5,175	5,049	5,168
61	Yemen	4,712	4,754	4,796	4,900	4,725	4,670
62	Senegal	4,372	4,349	4,363	4,406	4,278	4,404
63	Mauritius	3,165	3,093	3,496	3,385	2,495	3,099
64	Georgia	2,900	3,000	4,100	4,400	3,700	2,600
65	Congo	2,621	2,628	2,624	2,612	2,649	2,611
66	Libya	2,570	3,881	2,900	1,500	1,540	2,960
67	Cameroon	2,177	2,181	2,179	2,172	2,193	2,172
68	Serbia	2,052	2,053	2,054	2,046	2,054	2,052
69	Madagascar	1,786	1,793	1,790	1,776	1,813	1,780
70	Austria	1,770	1,810	1,420	1,170	1,130	1,062
71	Bahrain	1,626	1,590	1,500	1,418	1,394	1,234
72	Croatia	1,500					align="left"|
73	Cyprus	1,300	1,310	1,340	1,230	1,710	2,192
74	Puerto Rico	1,081	1.074	1,075	1,044	966	1,056
75	North Macedonia	971	977	972	964	995	955
76	Poland	900	2,400	500
77	Trinidad and Tobago	886	1,334	2,325	1,467	488	915
78	Haiti	862	861	859	858	855	853
79	Malta	820	730	850	860	840	792
80	Hungary	740	1,060	830	800	990	826
81	Tunisia	708	703	699	711	717	714
82	Kyrgyzstan	585	578	564	614	555	522
83	Dominica	503	503	504	503	503	505
84	Jamaica	460	423	352	357	385	405
85	Slovenia	340	420	550	500	330
86	Peru	286	491	427	356	476	261
87	Hong Kong	271	271	270	273	275	275
88	Brunei	211	298	341	292	283	623
89	Bhutan	197	303	429	300	245	643
90	New Caledonia	153	124	198	146	183	187
91	Gabon	102	102	101	102	100	99
92	Costa Rica	96	97	97	96	98	96
93	Djibouti	59	58	57	58	57	54
94	Antigua and Barbuda	35	33	34	74	123	190
95	Sweden	20	20	20
96	Nauru	1	1	1	1	0	0