What are the main wheat producing countries in the world? Everybody, once in a lifetime, has wondered it. Generally, we can say that wheat does grow all over the world.
The main producers are the European Union, China, India, the United States, Russia, Canada, Argentina, Australia, as we can see in the table below. The following international wheat production statistics come from Food and Agriculture Organization figures from FAOSTAT database, older from International Grains Council figures from the report “Grain Market Report”. The quantities of wheat in the following table are in million metric tonnes.
Country | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | ||||||||||||||
EU | 143.3 | 134.5 | 140.0 | 136.5 | ||||||||||||||
China | 121.7 | 125.6 | 117.4 | 115.2 | ||||||||||||||
India | 93.5 | 94.9 | 86.9 | 80.7 | ||||||||||||||
United States | 60.0 | 61.8 | 54.4 | 60.1 | ||||||||||||||
Russia | 52.1 | 37.7 | 56.2 | 41.5 | ||||||||||||||
France | 38.6 | 40.3 | 38.0 | 38.2 | ||||||||||||||
Canada | 37.5 | 27.0 | 25.3 | 23.2 | ||||||||||||||
Germany | 25.0 | 22.4 | 22.8 | 24.1 | ||||||||||||||
Pakistan | 24.2 | 23.5 | 25.2 | 23.3 | ||||||||||||||
Australia | 22.9 | 29.9 | 27.4 | 22.1 | ||||||||||||||
Ukraine | 22.8 | 15.8 | 22.3 | 16.9 |