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

## What this measures

World production of sunflower-seed oil, crude, 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.sunflower; the land it comes from is agriculture.fao.oilcrop_area_mha.sunflower.

## 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.