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World Vegetable Oil Production by Crop
Vegetable oil produced worldwide, yearly, million tonnes
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
FAOSTAT (CC BY 4.0), world. Palm counts palm and palm kernel oil; other oils are coconut, groundnut, olive, sesame, linseed and safflower. Cottonseed and maize oil are not included.
How much vegetable oil the world produces from each main crop since 1961. Output has grown more than tenfold, and palm oil has risen from a small share to the largest single source.
What this chart reads
- World Vegetable Oil Production · Palm Oil · million tonnes (FAOSTAT)as “Palm”behindlatest 2023-12-31
- World Vegetable Oil Production · Soybean Oil · million tonnes (FAOSTAT)as “Soybean”behindlatest 2023-12-31
- World Vegetable Oil Production · Rapeseed Oil · million tonnes (FAOSTAT)as “Rapeseed”behindlatest 2023-12-31
- World Vegetable Oil Production · Sunflower Oil · million tonnes (FAOSTAT)as “Sunflower”behindlatest 2023-12-31
- World Vegetable Oil Production · Other Oil · million tonnes (FAOSTAT)as “Other oils”behindlatest 2023-12-31
Sources
World Vegetable Oil Production · Palm Oil · million tonnes (FAOSTAT). Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL), element Production (tonnes), area World. Palanor reads the bulk file monthly and stores million tonnes. FAO Database terms of use (fao.org/contact-us/terms/db-terms-of-use): datasets in FAO corporate statistical databases "are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)". Attribution: FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL. Licence: CC-BY-4.0. No FAO endorsement is implied.
World Vegetable Oil Production · Soybean Oil · million tonnes (FAOSTAT). Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL), element Production (tonnes), area World. Palanor reads the bulk file monthly and stores million tonnes. FAO Database terms of use (fao.org/contact-us/terms/db-terms-of-use): datasets in FAO corporate statistical databases "are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)". Attribution: FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL. Licence: CC-BY-4.0. No FAO endorsement is implied.
World Vegetable Oil Production · Rapeseed Oil · million tonnes (FAOSTAT). Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL), element Production (tonnes), area World. Palanor reads the bulk file monthly and stores million tonnes. FAO Database terms of use (fao.org/contact-us/terms/db-terms-of-use): datasets in FAO corporate statistical databases "are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)". Attribution: FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL. Licence: CC-BY-4.0. No FAO endorsement is implied.
World Vegetable Oil Production · Sunflower Oil · million tonnes (FAOSTAT). Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL), element Production (tonnes), area World. Palanor reads the bulk file monthly and stores million tonnes. FAO Database terms of use (fao.org/contact-us/terms/db-terms-of-use): datasets in FAO corporate statistical databases "are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)". Attribution: FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL. Licence: CC-BY-4.0. No FAO endorsement is implied.
World Vegetable Oil Production · Other Oil · million tonnes (FAOSTAT). Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL), element Production (tonnes), area World. Palanor reads the bulk file monthly and stores million tonnes. FAO Database terms of use (fao.org/contact-us/terms/db-terms-of-use): datasets in FAO corporate statistical databases "are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)". Attribution: FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL. Licence: CC-BY-4.0. No FAO endorsement is implied.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.