World Vegetable Oil Production · Palm Oil · million tonnes (FAOSTAT)

## What this measures

World production of palm oil and palm kernel oil, both pressed from the fruit of the oil palm, in million tonnes, each year from 1961. Cottonseed and maize oil are left out: they are by-products of crops grown for fibre and grain, and counting that land would swamp the comparison. Each value is dated December 31.

## Why it matters

Vegetable oil is a staple food, a biofuel feedstock and an industrial input; palm and soybean oil set prices across the market. Output by crop shows how supply has shifted, above all the rise of palm oil from Indonesia and Malaysia.

## How to read it

Higher is more oil. Read the trend over several years; weather and El Niño move single years. Its share of the five groups is agriculture.fao.vegoil_production_share.palm; the land it comes from is agriculture.fao.oilcrop_area_mha.palm.

## What it does not say

FAOSTAT world totals sum national reports, many of them FAO estimates; recent years are revised. Oil output lags the area figures by about a year. Oils pressed from imported seed count where they are pressed.

## Source

FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL), element Production (tonnes), area World. Palanor reads the bulk file monthly (/api/cron/fao-oilcrops-sync) 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.