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Fish and seafood production

Fish and seafood production is measured as the sum of seafood from wild catch and fish farming (aquaculture).

Production of fish and seafood FAO – tonnes
Country/area
1961
2022
Absolute Change
Relative Change
Afghanistan300 t13,000 t+12,700 t+4,233%
Albania3,200 t15,000 t+11,800 t+369%
Algeria30,400 t84,000 t+53,600 t+176%
Angola246,800 t411,000 t+164,200 t+67%
Antigua and Barbuda800 t3,000 t+2,200 t+275%
Argentina91,800 t856,000 t+764,200 t+832%
Armenia20,000 t
Australia60,900 t295,000 t+234,100 t+384%
Austria4,200 t5,000 t+800 t+19%
Azerbaijan2,000 t
Bahamas1,500 t10,000 t+8,500 t+567%
Bahrain15,000 t
Bangladesh450,640 t4,384,000 t+3,933,360 t+873%
Barbados4,600 t1,000 t-3,600 t-78%
Belarus10,000 t
Belgium21,000 t
Belize600 t214,000 t+213,400 t+35,567%
Benin28,000 t79,000 t+51,000 t+182%
Bermuda500 t
Bhutan0 t
Bolivia500 t11,000 t+10,500 t+2,100%
Bosnia and Herzegovina4,000 t
Botswana400 t0 t-400 t-100%
Brazil274,800 t1,410,000 t+1,135,200 t+413%
Brunei900 t
Bulgaria8,100 t27,000 t+18,900 t+233%
Burkina Faso2,500 t31,000 t+28,500 t+1,140%
Burundi21,000 t
Cambodia45,000 t855,000 t+810,000 t+1,800%
Cameroon56,500 t299,000 t+242,500 t+429%
Canada1,018,630 t945,000 t-73,630 t-7%
Cape Verde1,600 t17,000 t+15,400 t+963%
Central African Republic2,000 t
Chad45,000 t103,000 t+58,000 t+129%
Chile429,900 t3,356,000 t+2,926,100 t+681%
China2,835,600 t64,159,000 t+61,323,400 t+2,163%
Colombia43,000 t272,000 t+229,000 t+533%
Comoros18,000 t
Congo11,000 t70,000 t+59,000 t+536%
Costa Rica2,400 t37,000 t+34,600 t+1,442%
Cote d'Ivoire42,100 t113,000 t+70,900 t+168%
Croatia84,000 t
Cuba30,600 t46,000 t+15,400 t+50%
Cyprus400 t9,000 t+8,600 t+2,150%
Czechia25,000 t
Czechoslovakia10,430 t
Democratic Republic of Congo234,000 t
Denmark637,490 t669,000 t+31,510 t+5%
Djibouti800 t2,000 t+1,200 t+150%
Dominica500 t1,000 t+500 t+100%
Dominican Republic1,600 t17,000 t+15,400 t+963%
East Timor0 t5,000 t+5,000 t
Ecuador38,600 t1,304,000 t+1,265,400 t+3,278%
Egypt92,000 t2,002,000 t+1,910,000 t+2,076%
El Salvador8,000 t58,000 t+50,000 t+625%
Estonia88,000 t
Eswatini0 t0 t+0 t
Ethiopia61,000 t
Ethiopia (former)8,500 t
Fiji3,000 t48,000 t+45,000 t+1,500%
Finland67,000 t179,000 t+112,000 t+167%
France711,620 t677,000 t-34,620 t-5%
French Polynesia2,700 t14,000 t+11,300 t+419%
Gabon6,500 t30,000 t+23,500 t+362%
Gambia4,800 t53,000 t+48,200 t+1,004%
Georgia220,000 t
Germany748,670 t265,000 t-483,670 t-65%
Ghana36,500 t482,000 t+445,500 t+1,221%
Greece85,290 t203,000 t+117,710 t+138%
Grenada500 t3,000 t+2,500 t+500%
Guatemala1,300 t47,000 t+45,700 t+3,515%
Guinea4,000 t326,000 t+322,000 t+8,050%
Guinea-Bissau700 t63,000 t+62,300 t+8,900%
Guyana7,400 t39,000 t+31,600 t+427%
Haiti3,000 t18,000 t+15,000 t+500%
Honduras2,550 t80,000 t+77,450 t+3,037%
Hong Kong54,800 t127,000 t+72,200 t+132%
Hungary19,300 t22,000 t+2,700 t+14%
Iceland716,060 t939,000 t+222,940 t+31%
India961,000 t14,395,000 t+13,434,000 t+1,398%
Indonesia906,800 t12,665,000 t+11,758,200 t+1,297%
Iran20,000 t1,258,000 t+1,238,000 t+6,190%
Iraq9,000 t66,000 t+57,000 t+633%
Ireland32,100 t247,000 t+214,900 t+669%
Israel15,950 t17,000 t+1,050 t+7%
Italy243,910 t328,000 t+84,090 t+34%
Jamaica11,500 t15,000 t+3,500 t+30%
Japan6,260,570 t3,762,000 t-2,498,570 t-40%
Jordan100 t3,000 t+2,900 t+2,900%
Kazakhstan53,000 t
Kenya13,910 t152,000 t+138,090 t+993%
Kiribati5,000 t225,000 t+220,000 t+4,400%
Kuwait3,500 t3,000 t-500 t-14%
Kyrgyzstan10,000 t
Laos12,000 t184,000 t+172,000 t+1,433%
Latvia112,000 t
Lebanon1,900 t3,000 t+1,100 t+58%
Lesotho0 t2,000 t+2,000 t
Liberia3,700 t25,000 t+21,300 t+576%
Libya32,000 t
Lithuania106,000 t
Luxembourg0 t
Macao5,800 t2,000 t-3,800 t-66%
Madagascar29,000 t119,000 t+90,000 t+310%
Malawi14,300 t181,000 t+166,700 t+1,166%
Malaysia167,710 t1,685,000 t+1,517,290 t+905%
Maldives12,000 t135,000 t+123,000 t+1,025%
Mali80,000 t116,000 t+36,000 t+45%
Malta1,300 t6,000 t+4,700 t+362%
Marshall Islands102,000 t
Mauritania22,000 t721,000 t+699,000 t+3,177%
Mauritius2,500 t37,000 t+34,500 t+1,380%
Mexico208,220 t1,825,000 t+1,616,780 t+776%
Micronesia (country)184,000 t
Moldova13,000 t
Mongolia250 t0 t-250 t-100%
Montenegro2,000 t
Morocco159,180 t1,414,000 t+1,254,820 t+788%
Mozambique12,800 t377,000 t+364,200 t+2,845%
Myanmar360,110 t3,033,000 t+2,672,890 t+742%
Namibia5,800 t467,000 t+461,200 t+7,952%
Nauru120,000 t
Nepal1,500 t92,000 t+90,500 t+6,033%
Netherlands346,100 t367,000 t+20,900 t+6%
Netherlands Antilles600 t
New Caledonia400 t5,000 t+4,600 t+1,150%
New Zealand50,730 t526,000 t+475,270 t+937%
Nicaragua4,000 t81,000 t+77,000 t+1,925%
Niger4,200 t48,000 t+43,800 t+1,043%
Nigeria55,010 t1,081,000 t+1,025,990 t+1,865%
North Korea342,000 t
North Macedonia4,000 t
Norway1,454,910 t3,762,000 t+2,307,090 t+159%
Oman580,000 t
Pakistan75,400 t649,000 t+573,600 t+761%
Panama11,400 t239,000 t+227,600 t+1,996%
Papua New Guinea190,000 t
Paraguay600 t32,000 t+31,400 t+5,233%
Peru5,216,000 t4,969,000 t-247,000 t-5%
Philippines497,900 t2,768,000 t+2,270,100 t+456%
Poland185,520 t256,000 t+70,480 t+38%
Portugal502,400 t197,000 t-305,400 t-61%
Qatar17,000 t
Romania38,800 t24,000 t-14,800 t-38%
Russia5,456,000 t
Rwanda500 t42,000 t+41,500 t+8,300%
Saint Kitts and Nevis600 t1,000 t+400 t+67%
Saint Lucia600 t2,000 t+1,400 t+233%
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines400 t2,000 t+1,600 t+400%
Samoa600 t11,000 t+10,400 t+1,733%
Sao Tome and Principe700 t6,000 t+5,300 t+757%
Saudi Arabia16,200 t182,000 t+165,800 t+1,023%
Senegal82,600 t515,000 t+432,400 t+523%
Serbia10,000 t
Serbia and Montenegro
Seychelles135,000 t
Sierra Leone22,800 t205,000 t+182,200 t+799%
Slovakia5,000 t
Slovenia2,000 t
Solomon Islands4,000 t69,000 t+65,000 t+1,625%
Somalia30,000 t
South Africa1,010,800 t453,000 t-557,800 t-55%
South Korea384,520 t1,952,000 t+1,567,480 t+408%
South Sudan33,000 t
Spain957,200 t1,188,000 t+230,800 t+24%
Sri Lanka63,120 t431,000 t+367,880 t+583%
Sudan44,000 t
Sudan (former)17,300 t
Suriname4,700 t38,000 t+33,300 t+709%
Sweden268,920 t196,000 t-72,920 t-27%
Switzerland2,800 t4,000 t+1,200 t+43%
Syria6,000 t
Taiwan314,250 t1,041,000 t+726,750 t+231%
Tajikistan4,000 t
Tanzania70,700 t522,000 t+451,300 t+638%
Thailand316,140 t2,507,000 t+2,190,860 t+693%
Togo4,000 t27,000 t+23,000 t+575%
Tonga1,000 t
Trinidad and Tobago2,400 t13,000 t+10,600 t+442%
Tunisia21,600 t150,000 t+128,400 t+594%
Turkey81,180 t835,000 t+753,820 t+929%
Turkmenistan15,000 t
Tuvalu31,000 t
USSR3,236,220 t
Uganda61,200 t761,000 t+699,800 t+1,143%
Ukraine79,000 t
United Arab Emirates30,000 t76,000 t+46,000 t+153%
United Kingdom881,440 t847,000 t-34,440 t-4%
United States2,813,910 t5,291,000 t+2,477,090 t+88%
Uruguay10,500 t66,000 t+55,500 t+529%
Uzbekistan122,000 t
Vanuatu1,400 t45,000 t+43,600 t+3,114%
Venezuela84,920 t302,000 t+217,080 t+256%
Vietnam473,620 t8,276,000 t+7,802,380 t+1,647%
Yemen22,000 t131,000 t+109,000 t+495%
Yugoslavia37,780 t
Zambia20,400 t168,000 t+147,600 t+724%
Zimbabwe1,300 t28,000 t+26,700 t+2,054%
Other
Africa2,319,100 t12,390,000 t+10,070,900 t+434%
Africa (FAO)2,336,400 t12,391,000 t+10,054,600 t+430%
Americas (FAO)10,333,420 t21,603,000 t+11,269,580 t+109%
Asia14,741,760 t126,758,000 t+112,016,240 t+760%
Asia (FAO)14,742,150 t127,060,000 t+112,317,850 t+762%
Belgium-Luxembourg (FAO)61,600 t
Caribbean (FAO)59,200 t130,000 t+70,800 t+120%
Central America (FAO)238,470 t2,581,000 t+2,342,530 t+982%
Central Asia (FAO)204,000 t
China (FAO)3,210,450 t65,328,000 t+62,117,550 t+1,935%
Eastern Africa (FAO)235,910 t2,687,000 t+2,451,090 t+1,039%
Eastern Asia (FAO)10,197,780 t71,327,000 t+61,129,220 t+599%
Eastern Europe (FAO)3,498,370 t5,916,000 t+2,417,630 t+69%
Europe11,201,160 t16,453,000 t+5,251,840 t+47%
Europe (FAO)11,262,370 t16,444,000 t+5,181,630 t+46%
European Union (27)4,858,320 t5,308,000 t+449,680 t+9%
European Union (27) (FAO)4,919,920 t5,308,000 t+388,080 t+8%
High-income countries19,417,490 t35,149,000 t+15,731,510 t+81%
Land Locked Developing Countries (FAO)246,950 t2,168,000 t+1,921,050 t+778%
Least Developed Countries (FAO)1,694,250 t14,385,000 t+12,690,750 t+749%
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (FAO)2,591,260 t6,074,000 t+3,482,740 t+134%
Low-income countries651,800 t2,724,000 t+2,072,200 t+318%
Lower-middle-income countries3,930,040 t44,706,000 t+40,775,960 t+1,038%
Melanesia8,800 t357,000 t+348,200 t+3,957%
Micronesia (FAO)5,000 t637,000 t+632,000 t+12,640%
Middle Africa (FAO)368,500 t1,154,000 t+785,500 t+213%
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (FAO)7,554,680 t25,492,000 t+17,937,320 t+237%
North America4,130,710 t8,949,000 t+4,818,290 t+117%
Northern Africa (FAO)320,480 t3,727,000 t+3,406,520 t+1,063%
Northern America (FAO)3,833,040 t6,236,000 t+2,402,960 t+63%
Northern Europe (FAO)4,057,930 t7,145,000 t+3,087,070 t+76%
Oceania128,730 t1,866,000 t+1,737,270 t+1,350%
Oceania (FAO)128,730 t1,872,000 t+1,743,270 t+1,354%
Polynesia3,300 t57,000 t+53,700 t+1,627%
Small Island Developing States (FAO)106,400 t1,888,000 t+1,781,600 t+1,674%
South America6,202,720 t12,655,000 t+6,452,280 t+104%
South America (FAO)6,202,720 t12,656,000 t+6,453,280 t+104%
South-eastern Asia (FAO)2,780,180 t31,979,000 t+29,198,820 t+1,050%
Southern Africa (FAO)1,017,000 t922,000 t-95,000 t-9%
Southern Asia (FAO)1,583,960 t21,357,000 t+19,773,040 t+1,248%
Southern Europe (FAO)1,831,080 t2,044,000 t+212,920 t+12%
Upper-middle-income countries14,716,350 t96,492,000 t+81,775,650 t+556%
Western Africa (FAO)394,510 t3,901,000 t+3,506,490 t+889%
Western Asia (FAO)180,230 t2,192,000 t+2,011,770 t+1,116%
Western Europe (FAO)1,874,990 t1,339,000 t-535,990 t-29%
World38,803,070 t179,369,000 t+140,565,930 t+362%
Data

Production of fish and seafood

FAO
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Agricultural Production

What you should know about this indicator

Item: Fish and seafood

Metric: Production

Description: Figures relate to the total domestic production whether inside or outside the agricultural sector, i.e. it includes non-commercial production and production from kitchen gardens. Unless otherwise indicated, production is reported at the farm level for crop and livestock products (i.e. in the case of crops, excluding harvesting losses) and in terms of live weight for fish items (i.e. the actual ex-water weight at the time of the catch). All data shown relate to total meat production from both commercial and farm slaughter. Data are expressed in terms of dressed carcass weight, excluding offal and slaughter fats. Production of beef and buffalo meat includes veal; mutton and goat meat includes meat from lambs and kids; pig meat includes bacon and ham in fresh equivalent. Poultry meat includes meat from all domestic birds and refers, wherever possible, to ready-to-cook weight. Source: FAO Statistics Division

Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Last updated
March 17, 2025
Next expected update
March 2026
Date range
1961–2022
Unit
tonnes

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Fish and Overfishing

Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser

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Food Balance Sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period.

The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption.

The per caput supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it. Data on per caput food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Food Balances: Food Balances (-2013, old methodology and population) (2023).

Food Balance Sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period.

The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption.

The per caput supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it. Data on per caput food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Food Balances: Food Balances (2010-) (2024).

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