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This is a list of countries by papaya production from 2017 to 2022, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The estimated total world production for papayas in 2022 was 13,822,328 metric tonnes, down by 1.9% from 14,086,181 tonnes in 2021. India was by far the largest producer, accounting for over 38% of global production. Dependent territories are shown in italics.

Production by country

>100,000 tonnes

Rank	Country/region	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017
1	India	5,341,000	5,540,000	5,780,000	6,050,000	5,989,000	5,940,000
2	Dominican Republic	1,281,726	1,156,667	1,094,495	1,176,453	1,026,619	869,306
3	Mexico	1,139,121	1,134,753	1,117,437	1,083,133	1,039,820	961,768
4	Brazil	1,107,761	1,259,684	1,234,639	1,171,026	1,065,421	1,058,487
5	Indonesia	1,089,578	1,168,266	1,016,388	986,991	887,580	875,112
6	Nigeria	877,009	866,682	886,752	877,594	835,701	838,172
7	Democratic Republic of the Congo	209,416	209,954	210,492	209,482	210,070	211,761
8	China	199,030	118,834	138,333	122,272	127,244	125,521
9	Peru	176,931	190,069	188,166	166,180	175,999	177,171
10	Thailand	165,605	165,666	165,580	165,570	165,847	165,322
11	Philippines	159,173	165,912	163,299	166,164	169,143	167,043
12	Venezuela	156,533	156,598	157,177	101,165	154,480	160,707
13	Bangladesh	147,350	125,758	130,679	135,809	131,598	134,647
14	Taiwan	138,333	122,272	127,244	125,521	105,921	5,667,000
15	Colombia	129,993	146,186	196,017	144,967	125,328	168,594
16	Vietnam	124,092	115,449	114,585	109,068	92,914	85,564

1,000–100,000 tonnes

Rank	Country/region	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017
17	Guyana	92,749	74,447	70,535	69,473	68,867	69,052
18	Mali	88,196	64,024	57,476	67,319	67,319	20,980
19	Guatemala	86,802	86,235	85,684	88,487	84,533	84,033
20	Cuba	82,200	82,203	158,231	187,821	176,630	189,086
21	Kenya	76,430	81,446	110,322	105,048	134,436	112,932
22	Malawi	70,151	67,900	66,892	64,573	62,896	59,670
23	Costa Rica	62,305	67,103	52,276	33,460	85,500	54,000
24	Ethiopia	60,938	60,665	72,008	51,947	59,205	54,355
25	Malaysia	54,753	60,844	61,776	53,681	52,917	83,797
26	Ecuador	48,872	48,690	50,473	47,452	48,145	48,472
27	Mozambique	43,159	43,076	42,993	43,067	43,033	42,968
28	Haiti	28,603	27,711	26,536	24,064	27,471	24,102
29	Yemen	27,206	27,373	24,845	24,502	19,884	21,735
30	Laos	26,690	32,092	29,053	29,990	27,365	25,295
31	Panama	22,915	19,432	15,785	12,768	8,059	7,835
32	Nepal	19,675	16,946	18,310	15,525	14,505	12,912
33	Bolivia	17,959	18,030	18,094	18,291	18,040	17,339
34	Australia	17,315	18,330	19,648	14,921	11,968	10,198
35	Ivory Coast	14,230	14,295	14,270	14,125	14,490	14,196
36	Jamaica	13,067	10,252	10,825	10,999	9,537	7,705
37	Pakistan	12,223	9,278	8,537	7,630	7,201	6,548
38	Paraguay	11,384	11,375	11,379	11,350	11,461	11,472
39	South Africa	8,330	9,398	10,555	13,134	12,909	13,739
40	Puerto Rico	7,694	7,563	7,759	6,496	4,710	7,210
41	Oman	5,851	5,838	5,830	5,830	5,572	5,772
42	Ghana	5,652	5,645	5,670	5,642	5,622	5,744
43	Fiji	5,210	4,509	3,635	4,005	3,285	3,434
44	Saudi Arabia	4,420	4,717	3,872
45	Republic of the Congo	3,798	3,810	3,802	3,784	3,844	3,777
46	United States	3,790	6,080	3,760	5,330	4,720	11,610
47	Samoa	3,339	3,357	3,376	3,354	3,335	3,347
48	Guinea-Bissau	3,040	3,039	3,054	3,028	3,035	3,100
49	El Salvador	2,502	3,147	6,287	4,845	7,781	7,111
50	Morocco	2,280	2,280	2,250	2,270	2,028	1,713
51	East Timor	2,219	2,201	2,221	2,234	2,148	2,283
52	Argentina	2,214	2,212	2,200	2,214	2,217	2,213
53	Chile	2,143	2,211	2,180	2,413	2,241	2,511
54	Israel	1,909	1,609	83	101	44	60
55	Rwanda	1,547	1,308	2,278	2,211	623	1,662
56	Trinidad and Tobago	1,228	1,400	1,660	1,640	1,312	1,270

<1,000 tonnes

Rank	Country/region	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017
57	Cook Islands	594	594	592	596	596	586
58	Bahamas	593	588	584	579	579	572
59	Belize	462	724	311	275	1,226	1,442
60	Honduras	359	348	341	388	316	318
61	Iran	297	297	299	296	295	306
62	Suriname	259	395	763	854	810	745
63	Bhutan	122	164	206	216	241	279
64	Dominica	91	90	90	90	88	87
65	Tunisia	77	76	75	74	73	73
66	Maldives	71	234	3,419	3,256	1,833	1,252
67	Cameroon	48	47	46	45	45	44
68	Zimbabwe	44	44	44	44	44	45
69	Nauru	2	2	2	2	2	0

Notes

References

1. ^ "FAOSTAT". www.fao.org. Retrieved 27 March 2024.

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