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Countries by papaya production in 2020

This is a list of countries by papaya production from 2016 to 2020, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The estimated total world production for papayas in 2020 was 13,894,705 metric tonnes, up by 1.9% from 13,641,294 tonnes in 2019. India was by far the largest producer, accounting for over 43% of global production. Dependent territories are shown in italics.

Production by country

>100,000 tonnes

Rank	Country/region	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
1	India	6,011,000	6,050,000	5,989,000	5,940,000	5,667,000
2	Dominican Republic	1,271,303	1,176,453	1,026,619	869,306	863,201
3	Brazil	1,235,003	1,171,026	1,065,421	1,058,487	1,296,940
4	Mexico	1,117,437	1,083,133	1,039,820	961,768	951,922
5	Indonesia	1,016,388	986,991	887,580	875,112	904,284
6	Nigeria	877,120	881,828	877,036	872,496	843,093
7	Democratic Republic of the Congo	210,000	210,592	211,185	210,211	212,687
8	Colombia	194,332	144,967	125,328	168,594	177,458
9	Peru	186,508	166,180	175,999	177,171	169,437
10	Thailand	164,360	164,655	165,161	163,263	165,540
11	Philippines	163,299	166,164	169,143	167,043	162,481
12	Cuba	158,231	187,821	176,630	189,086	212,579
13	Taiwan	138,333	122,272	127,244	125,521	105,921
14	Bangladesh	130,679	135,809	131,598	134,647	130,371
15	Kenya	118,924	105,048	134,436	112,932	118,084
16	Guatemala	102,278	97,904	93,433	103,964	96,896

1,000–100,000 tonnes

Rank	Country/region	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
17	Ethiopia	72,008	51,947	59,205	54,355	50,396
18	Venezuela	71,717	101,165	137,985	160,707	177,180
19	Guyana	70,535	69,473	68,867	69,052	41,881
20	Malawi	66,824	64,519	62,896	59,670	56,091
21	Malaysia	61,776	53,681	52,917	83,797	65,967
22	Mali	57,476	67,319	67,319	20,980	54,664
23	Costa Rica	54,591	33,460	85,500	54,000	100,000
24	Ecuador	47,143	46,793	47,650	46,987	45,740
25	Mozambique	43,018	42,935	42,852	42,916	42,907
26	China	35,709	35,587	35,872	35,667	35,223
27	Laos	28,967	29,990	27,365	25,295	28,989
28	Yemen	25,099	24,502	19,884	21,735	21,591
29	Nepal	18,310	15,525	14,505	12,912	14,137
30	Bolivia	18,094	18,291	18,040	17,339	18,216
31	Ivory Coast	13,992	13,917	14,117	13,943	13,689
32	South Africa	11,525	10,543	12,909	13,739	15,525
33	Paraguay	11,405	11,386	11,375	11,313	11,457
34	Jamaica	10,825	10,999	9,537	7,705	8,582
35	Pakistan	8,537	7,630	7,201	6,548	6,185
36	Puerto Rico	8,467	8,443	8,748	8,211	8,371
37	Panama	8,083	8,200	8,059	7,835	7,726
38	Australia	6,345	6,331	6,316	6,232	6,205
39	Oman	5,830	5,830	5,572	5,772	5,772
40	Ghana	5,661	5,636	5,617	5,730	5,561
41	United States	3,756	5,330	4,720	11,610	8,963
42	Republic of the Congo	3,718	3,721	3,715	3,718	3,731
43	Fiji	3,635	4,005	3,285	3,434	3,174
44	Maldives	3,419	3,256	1,833	1,252	1,288
45	Samoa	3,371	3,392	3,413	3,392	3,390
46	Guinea-Bissau	2,984	2,975	2,996	2,981	2,947
47	El Salvador	2,734	4,845	7,781	7,111	8,151
48	Rwanda	2,278	2,211	623	1,662	2,920
49	Argentina	2,207	2,204	2,201	2,207	2,207
50	East Timor	2,169	2,194	2,118	2,194	2,270
51	Chile	2,151	2,378	2,208	2,490	2,655
52	Trinidad and Tobago	1,660	1,640	1,312	1,270	942

<1,000 tonnes

Rank	Country/region	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
53	Suriname	892	854	810	745	713
54	Cook Islands	604	604	602	605	605
55	Bahamas	572	569	565	563	566
56	Honduras	516	621	764	794	530
57	Iran	302	298	301	306	288
58	Morocco	169	169	169	169	171
59	Haiti	101	101	101	101	101
60	Dominica	83	83	83	83	83
60	Israel	83	101	44	60	61
62	Tunisia	75	74	73	73	72
63	Cameroon	47	46	45	44	42
64	Zimbabwe	45	45	45	46	45
65	Nauru	2	2	2	0	N/A
–	Belize	0	4,631	6,968	9,931	10,363