The Top 5 Countries that Produce the Most Wheat

  Country Wheat Production 2013
(metric tonnes)		 % of World Total
1 China 120,580,000 m/t 16.8%
2 India 94,880,000 m/t 14.0%
3 United States of America 61,677,387 m/t 9.1%
4 France 40,300,800 m/t 5.9%
5 Russian Federation 37,719,640 m/t 5.5%
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  1. The developing world's share of all wheat imports is currently around 60 percent. At the same time imports have risen and wheat has assumed greater importance in the local diet. There is a global surplus of wheat. Prices have declined by 46 percent since 1950. Stocks have reached record levels over the past decade.
  2. In Asia wheat, rice and maize are the major food grains contributing over 90 percent of the total food grains. Asia contributes the majority of the world's rice production (about 90%) followed by South America and Africa.
  3. The major wheat producing and consuming countries in Asia are China, India, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey.
  4. Much of the world's wheat is grown in dry land areas.
  5. Throughout the developing world the use of wheat per capita has rapidly grown. In the large mixed-cereal economies of India, China and Mexico, higher levels of consumption have been met from greater domestic production and self-sufficiency. Other countries, such as the traditional wheat consumers of North Africa and West Asia have used imports to meet increased consumption.
Top 5 facts sources:
  1. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2008.
Tags: Farming & Agriculture Statistics, Crops, China, The United States, India

Sources:  FAOSTAT data 2015.

List Notes: Wheat production is in metric tonnes (m/t) for the year 2013 (latest year for which statistics are available as of May 2015). This top 5 list may include official, semi-official or estimated data gathered by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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