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China is the top country by wheat production in the world. As of 2020, wheat production in China was 134,250 thousand tonnes that accounts for 20.66% of the world's wheat production. The top 5 countries (others are India, Russian Federation, the United States of America, and Canada) account for 63.46% of it. The world's total wheat production was estimated at 649,759 thousand tonnes in 2020.

Triticum spp.: common (T. aestivum) durum (T. durum) spelt (T. spelta). Common and durum wheat are the main types. Among common wheat, the main varieties are spring and winter, hard and soft, and red and white. At the national level, different varieties should be reported separately, reflecting their different uses. Used mainly for human food.

Wheat production quantity (thousand tonnes)

	1970	1990	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
China	29,185	98,229	99,636	97,445	116,093	118,570	122,475	123,639	128,235	132,555	133,188	134,241	131,441	133,600	134,250
India	20,093	49,850	76,369	68,637	80,804	86,874	94,882	93,506	95,850	86,527	87,000	98,510	99,870	103,600	107,860
Russia		49,596	34,455	47,615	41,508	56,240	37,720	52,091	59,080	61,044	72,529	85,167	71,685	73,610	85,354
United States	36,795	74,292	60,641	57,243	58,868	54,244	61,298	58,105	55,147	56,117	62,832	47,380	51,306	52,581	49,691
Canada	9,024	32,098	26,536	25,748	23,300	25,288	27,246	37,589	29,442	27,647	32,140	30,377	32,352	32,670	35,183
Australia	7,890	15,066	22,108	25,173	27,410	29,905	22,856	25,303	23,743	22,275	31,819	20,941	17,598	14,480	33,000
Ukraine		30,374	10,197	18,699	16,844	22,324	15,761	22,278	24,750	27,274	26,791	26,981	25,057	29,171	25,420
Pakistan	7,294	14,429	21,079	21,612	23,311	25,214	23,473	24,211	25,979	25,086	25,633	26,674	25,076	24,349	24,946
Turkey	8,000	16,000	18,000	18,500	17,000	18,800	16,000	18,750	15,250	19,500	17,250	21,000	19,000	17,500	18,250
Argentina	4,920	10,992	16,300	13,800	17,200	15,500	9,300	10,500	13,930	11,300	18,400	18,500	19,500	19,780	17,645
Iran	3,800	8,012	8,088	14,308	13,500	12,400	13,800	14,000	13,000	14,500	14,500	14,000	14,500	16,800	16,750
Kazakhstan		16,197	9,070	11,197	9,638	22,732	9,841	13,941	12,996	13,748	14,985	14,802	13,947	11,452	14,256
United Kingdom											14,383	14,444	13,455	15,600	9,658
Egypt	1,519	4,286	6,350	8,184	7,200	8,400	8,500	8,250	8,300	8,100	8,100	8,450	8,450	8,770	8,900
Uzbekistan		553	3,600	5,800	6,500	6,300	6,700	6,800	7,150	6,965	6,940	6,941	6,000	6,800	6,510
Brazil	1,735	3,300	1,660	4,873	5,900	5,800	4,380	5,300	6,000	5,540	6,730	4,264	5,428	5,200	6,250
Ethiopia	840	816	1,820	2,219	2,860	2,916	3,435	3,925	4,232	4,651	4,538	4,642	4,838	5,315	5,100
Afghanistan	2,081	1,650	1,469	3,500	3,700	2,500	5,050	5,000	5,025	5,000	5,100	4,281	3,600	5,000	5,010
Iraq	1,236	1,481	1,292	2,528	2,875	2,574	2,100	3,300	3,500	4,410	4,225	4,000	3,000	4,800	4,635
Syria	625	2,070	3,105	4,669	3,600	3,850	3,700	4,000	2,500	3,500	2,400	2,200	2,000	4,800	4,500
Algeria	1,435	775	760	2,200	2,900	2,800	3,400	3,302	1,900	2,700	2,000	2,400	3,940	3,950	3,900
Mexico	2,148	3,930	3,400	3,020	3,677	3,628	3,274	3,357	3,670	3,711	3,865	3,494	3,000	3,270	2,965
Serbia					1,650	2,000	1,900	2,731	2,400	2,600	3,000	2,300	3,200	2,600	2,700
Morocco	1,801	3,614	1,381	3,043	4,876	6,018	3,878	6,934	5,116	8,075	2,731	7,091	7,342	4,025	2,560
Belarus		381	966	1,175	1,739	2,132	2,554	2,102	2,924	2,896	2,340	2,620	1,815	2,309	2,300
Nepal	265	836	1,158	1,394	1,746	1,846	1,882	1,883	1,976	1,737	1,879	1,949	2,006	2,200	2,210
South Africa	1,396	1,702	2,349	1,886	1,430	2,005	1,870	1,870	1,750	1,440	1,910	1,535	1,868	1,535	2,120
Azerbaijan		880	1,175	1,566	1,309	1,641	1,847	1,893	1,449	1,688	1,852	1,819	2,043	2,172	1,867
Chile	1,307	1,589	1,780	1,404	1,576	1,213	1,475	1,358	1,482	1,732	1,349	1,469	1,400	1,231	1,365
Turkmenistan		130	1,150	1,600	1,200	1,300	1,200	1,600	1,200	1,200	1,400	1,000	700	1,500	1,320
Bangladesh	107	1,004	1,673	820	972	996	1,260	1,280	1,300	1,290	1,250	1,153	1,100	1,200	1,180
Tunisia	349	1,122	842	1,627	822	1,605	1,523	975	1,513	912	927	1,104	1,070	1,454	1,043
Japan	474	952	688	875	688	867	910	903	903	1,058	891	972	860	1,100	990
Paraguay	48	300	359	800	1,209	1,240	1,500	700	1,514	1,194	1,285	700	1,260	1,100	950
Uruguay	388	416	324	454	1,301	2,016	982	1,533	1,076	1,191	757	440	728	776	936
Tajikistan		134	406	550	500	400	800	900	770	770	770	900	700	830	810
Sudan	162	500	215	435	403	324	324	265	473	779	516	463	702	726	725
Moldova		1,129	725	1,057	744	795	495	1,007	1,102	922	1,293	1,251	1,163	1,148	568
Kyrgyzstan		482	1,039	950	813	800	541	819	573	705	662	601	616	590	559
Switzerland	318	578	586	531	524	553	516	480	540	540	540	540	540	540	540
New Zealand	326	181	326	319	445	383	489	448	414	414	459	405	371	398	454
Norway	12	237	313	395	331	285	275	213	390	495	309	401	127	420	420
Mongolia	250	600	139	74	346	436	465	368	488	204	467	231	436	412	406
Saudi Arabia	135	3,580	1,788	2,648	1,349	1,184	854	660	722	12	12	13	13	205	400
Bosnia and Herzegovina			336	248	145	210	225	265	170	213	307	289	292	265	322
Bolivia	44	87	94	120	239	133	186	160	338	329	154	302	237	311	305
Kenya	206	196	105	225	256	268	442	450	229	239	215	165	337	366	300
North Macedonia			299	334	243	256	215	259	288	201	306	200	241	300	300
Albania	230	615	341	260	295	293	300	294	280	275	275	275	240	233	265
Libya	70	155	125	125	106	166	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200
Zambia	0	52	60	135	172	237	254	274	202	214	160	194	114	152	190
Zimbabwe	54	325	230	229	41	53	34	39	59	62	62	158	170	95	180
Peru	125	95	187	174	219	220	230	227	214	212	189	189	197	191	177
Armenia		156	100	258	184	224	243	312	338	384	360	176	187	180	174
Lebanon	43	52	108	144	83	125	150	140	140	139	140	130	130	140	140
Burma	40	135	100	124	182	185	180	186	185	198	180	135	95	100	100
Georgia		258	90	190	48	97	81	81	48	126	127	98	107	100	94
Israel	125	291	81	201	112	122	190	178	126	157	168	72	71	86	90
Rwanda					77	91	76	70	68	81	84	75	75	80	80
Korea, North	88	116	150	250	220	150	100	105	95	40	65	65	65	65	65
Tanzania	61	105	35	102	62	113	109	104	167	72	76	50	57	63	65
Nigeria	6	50	45	85	100	165	100	80	91	60	60	67	60	60	55
Mali		0			24	34	40	27	46	36	40	28	29	8	37
Eritrea			11	22	33	23	23	30	30	25	25	25	25	25	25
Uganda					20	20	20	20	22	22	22	22	23	24	25
Jordan	77	83	25	34	22	20	19	15	20	25	25	20	25	25	24
Mozambique	9	5	1	3	18	20	18	20	21	20	17	15	20	20	20
Korea, South	196	1	2	8	39	44	37	19	23	26	39	37	26	15	17
Namibia					12	16	16	15	10	10	10	6	6	6	12
Congo (Kinshasa)	0	15	10	12	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Lesotho	60	10	23	11	20	20	11	13	13	7	5	9	9	2	8
Taiwan	4	4	0	0	0	0	7	4	7	5	5	6	6	7	6
Colombia	55	103	29	44	15	13	9	8	6	10	14	5	6	6	5
Ecuador	66	29	13	8	8	6	7	6	7	2	7	6	5	5	5
Angola	12	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4	4	3	3	1	3
Chad		6	3	4	8	2	9	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2
Bhutan		5	4	11	5	6	5	4	3	4	3	4	3	1	1
Guatemala	31	23	5	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1
Malawi					2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Bahrain		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Barbados		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Benin					0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Burkina Faso	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cameroon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Congo (Brazzaville)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Costa Rica	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cote d'Ivoire	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cuba	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dominican Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
El Salvador	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fiji	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gabon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ghana	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guyana	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Haiti	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Honduras	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hong Kong	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Indonesia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jamaica	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kuwait	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Liberia		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Madagascar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malaysia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mauritania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mauritius	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nicaragua	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Niger		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Oman		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Panama	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Papua New Guinea		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Philippines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Senegal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sierra Leone	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Singapore	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Somalia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sri Lanka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thailand	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Togo		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
United Arab Emirates		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Venezuela	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnam	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgaria	3,032	5,095
Cyprus	44	5
Estonia		65
Former Czechoslovakia	3,174	6,707
Hungary	2,718	6,161
Latvia		372
Lithuania		1,184
Malta	2	3
Poland	4,608	9,026
Romania	3,356	7,311
Serbia and Montenegro			1,800	2,011
Yemen (Sanaa)	33	80

Wheat production quantity (thousand tonnes)

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