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  • Publication | 2025
Agricultural production statistics: 2010–2024
Global Food and Nutrition Security

The agricultural production domain covers data on crop and livestock commodities from production volumes to harvested areas and animal slaughtering rates up to 2024. In addition, data for selected processed crop and livestock products, synchronized and derived from the Food Balance Sheets domain, are also available up to 2023. The global harvested area of the main primary crops reached 1.5 billion hectares in 2024, up 197 million hectares from 2010. Oil crops, and roots and tubers exhibited the largest increases. Oil crops also showed the largest production increase between 2010 and 2024 (+50 percent), to 1.2 billion tonnes (Gt). Oil palm fruit production increased by 77 percent and soya beans by 50 percent, driven mainly by area expansions. The global cereal production increased by 27 percent between 2010 and 2024, to 3.1 Gt, mainly due to yield improvements.