Areca Nuts Consumption by Country

India held 1,221,420 tonnes of areca nut food supply in 2023, 57.8 percent of the 2,113,834-tonne total. Bangladesh came next, then Myanmar. India also drove the latest-year slide, giving up 296,360 tonnes, the largest single movement in the table. Over the full period the total rose 66.9 percent, and 63 countries entered. FAO's per-capita column is empty for 2023 in all but two countries.

Areca Nuts Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

Which country consumes the most areca nuts? India, with 1,221,420 tonnes in 2023, or 57.8% of the 2,113,834-tonne total in the 136 countries reporting a 2023 value. Bangladesh (356,745 tonnes) and Myanmar (205,990 tonnes) follow, and the leading three hold 84.4 percent. The figures measure food available for human consumption, not actual intake.

Iran took fourth place at 95,153 tonnes and Taiwan fifth at 77,841, with China sixth (51,807), Sri Lanka seventh (25,221), Nepal eighth (14,993), Bhutan ninth (10,606) and Thailand tenth (10,134). India's supply was 3.42 times Bangladesh's. No 2023 per-person ranking is shown, since FAO leaves those cells empty for almost every country.

What Stands Out for Areca Nuts

• India crossed 1.5 million tonnes in 2022 before easing back in 2023.
• China grew from 691.07 tonnes in 2019 to 51,807 in 2023.
• Thailand reported nothing in 2022, then re-entered at 10,134 tonnes.
• Vietnam's entry of 27,473 tonnes in 2022 shrank to 6,998 in 2023.

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#	Country	2023 (tonnes)2023	2023 (grams per person per day)2023
1	India IN	1.22M	—
2	Bangladesh BD	356.75K	—
3	Myanmar MM	205.99K	—
4	Iran IR	95.15K	—
5	Taiwan TW	77.84K	—
6	China CN	51.81K	—
7	Sri Lanka LK	25.22K	—
8	Nepal NP	14.99K	—
9	Bhutan BT	10.61K	—
10	Thailand TH	10.13K	—
11	Vietnam VN	7K	—
12	Canada CA	6.88K	—
13	Malaysia MY	6.41K	—
14	United Kingdom GB	4.75K	—
15	France FR	3.23K	—
16	South Korea KR	2.65K	—
17	Pakistan PK	1.76K	—
18	Netherlands NL	1.54K	—
19	Maldives MV	1.05K	—
20	Saudi Arabia SA	940.12	—
21	Portugal PT	770.13	—
22	Switzerland CH	755.73	—
23	Kyrgyzstan KG	694.27	—
24	Denmark DK	549.59	—
25	Finland FI	436.79	—
26	Czech Republic CZ	332.22	—
27	Slovakia SK	292.55	—
28	Cyprus CY	258.03	—
29	Iraq IQ	252.74	—
30	United States US	228.08	—
31	Lithuania LT	220.63	—
32	Romania RO	217.19	—
33	New Zealand NZ	192.23	—
34	Greece GR	192.18	—
35	Hong Kong HK	166.13	—
36	Comoros KM	158.47	—
37	Libya LY	140.98	—
38	Latvia LV	130.79	—
39	Norway NO	112.27	—
40	Bahrain BH	111.5	—
41	Yemen YE	106.73	—
42	Luxembourg LU	101.27	—
43	Estonia EE	86.74	—
44	Morocco MA	82.62	—
45	Panama PA	69.07	—
46	Colombia CO	67.81	—
47	Dominican Republic DO	65.52	—
48	Senegal SN	60.71	—
49	Iceland IS	59.81	—
50	Hungary HU	58.28	—
51	Slovenia SI	55.4	—
52	Kenya KE	53.22	—
53	Fiji FJ	50.97	—
54	Qatar QA	47.12	—
55	Croatia HR	44.99	—
56	Laos LA	44.33	—
57	Tunisia TN	39.75	—
58	Botswana BW	37.23	—
59	Mauritius MU	35.83	—
60	Malta MT	33.87	—
61	Uzbekistan UZ	28.31	—
62	Costa Rica CR	26.96	—
63	Belarus BY	22.57	—
64	Australia AU	20.04	—
65	Jamaica JM	19.51	—
66	Uruguay UY	18.62	—
67	New Caledonia NC	18.05	—
68	DR Congo CD	15.05	—
69	Oman OM	14.25	—
70	Mozambique MZ	11.1	—
71	Gabon GA	9.86	—
72	Macau MO	9.21	—
73	Lesotho LS	7.43	—
74	Zambia ZM	7.18	—
75	Congo CG	6.35	—
76	Ukraine UA	5.41	—
77	Angola AO	5.15	—
78	Barbados BB	4.45	—
79	French Polynesia PF	4.19	—
80	Armenia AM	4.13	—
81	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	3.92	—
82	Lebanon LB	3.63	—
83	El Salvador SV	3.31	—
84	Azerbaijan AZ	3.12	—
85	Namibia NA	2.79	—
86	Montenegro ME	2.37	—
87	Papua New Guinea PG	2.13	—
88	Syria SY	2.09	—
89	Marshall Islands MH	1.8	—
90	Germany DE	1.6	—
91	Trinidad and Tobago TT	1.42	—
92	Timor-Leste TL	1.3	—
93	North Macedonia MK	1.06	—
94	Seychelles SC	0.75	—
95	Sierra Leone SL	0.69	—
96	Vanuatu VU	0.58	—
97	Solomon Islands SB	0.57	—
98	Tanzania TZ	0.52	—
99	Guinea GN	0.51	—
100	Rwanda RW	0.46	0
101	Algeria DZ	0.45	—
102	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	0.31	—
103	Georgia GE	0.29	—
104	Guyana GY	0.26	—
105	Micronesia FM	0.21	—
106	Tonga TO	0.1	—
107	Gambia GM	0.09	—
108	Paraguay PY	0.04	—
109	Turkmenistan TM	0.03	—
110	Spain ES	0.02	—
111	Belize BZ	0.01	—
112	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	0.01	—
113	Samoa WS	0.01	—
114	Afghanistan AF	0	—
115	Austria AT	0	—
116	Bahamas BS	0	—
117	Belgium BE	0	—
118	Cambodia KH	0	—
119	Cameroon CM	0	—
120	Chile CL	0	—
121	Ethiopia ET	0	—
122	Guinea-Bissau GW	0	0
123	Honduras HN	0	—
124	Italy IT	0	—
125	Ivory Coast CI	0	—
126	Kazakhstan KZ	0	—
127	Kuwait KW	0	—
128	Madagascar MG	0	—
129	Malawi MW	0	—
130	Nicaragua NI	0	—
131	Niger NE	0	—
132	Poland PL	0	—
133	South Africa ZA	0	—
134	Uganda UG	0	—
135	United Arab Emirates AE	0	—
136	Zimbabwe ZW	0	—

Areca Nuts in the Latest Year

Across the 127 countries with values in both 2022 and 2023, supply fell 11.7 percent, a loss of 279,524 tonnes. India's latest decline exceeded the entire net fall, so gains elsewhere partly offset it; Myanmar added 40,974 tonnes and Bangladesh 20,159. China shed 28,251 tonnes and Vietnam 20,475. Nine countries joined in 2023, Thailand the largest at 10,134 tonnes.

Areca Nuts Across the Full Period

Of the 73 countries reporting in both 2019 and 2023, the total expanded from 1,260,053 tonnes to 2,102,786, a rise of 842,734 tonnes or 66.9 percent. India contributed 51.6 percent of that gain and Bangladesh 22.1 percent. China's earlier base of 691.07 tonnes grew into 51,116 tonnes of new supply. Sixty-three countries entered the period while two left; the newcomers held 11,047.91 tonnes in 2023 and the leavers 0.18 tonnes in 2019, a net effect of 11,047.73 tonnes.

Reading the Areca Nuts Per-Person Column

FAO's areca nut per-person series stops early: of the countries with a 2023 value, only two show a gram figure, both zero. The last year with wide coverage is 2019, so this page compares tonnages rather than grams per day. In 2019, Taiwan led the per-person column at 10.47 grams a day, followed by Myanmar at 5.35 and Bangladesh at 2.87.

What the Areca Nuts Table Measures

Areca nuts, the seed of the areca palm, stand as one FAO item and are not blended into any other. Each tonnage is a reference-year supply figure, not a harvest or a sale.

Where Areca Nuts Supply Divided

India's share, nearly three of every five tonnes, dwarfed every other reporter. Taiwan moved the other way, easing from 90,811 tonnes in 2019 to 77,841. China recorded the steepest percentage increase, from 691.07 tonnes to 51,807, though its new five-year supply still sat below India's single-year decline of 296,360 tonnes.

Areca Nuts Consumption by Country

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#	Country	2019 (t)	2019 (g/cap/d)	2020 (t)	2020 (g/cap/d)	2021 (t)	2021 (g/cap/d)	2022 (t)	2022 (g/cap/d)	2023 (t)	2023 (g/cap/d)
1	India	786.66K	1.58	1.25M	-	1.37M	-	1.52M	-	1.22M	-
2	Bangladesh	170.6K	2.87	206.52K	-	282.62K	-	336.59K	-	356.75K	-
3	Myanmar	105.5K	5.35	131.14K	-	160.41K	-	165.02K	-	205.99K	-
4	Iran	43.76K	1.45	100.3K	-	29.58K	-	82.41K	-	95.15K	-
5	Taiwan	90.81K	10.47	86.22K	-	83.62K	-	81.09K	-	77.84K	-
6	China	691.07	-	3.58K	-	10.21K	-	80.06K	-	51.81K	-
7	Sri Lanka	21.7K	-	22.26K	-	31.96K	-	21.45K	-	25.22K	-
8	Nepal	17.77K	1.7	10.47K	-	16.3K	-	23.57K	-	14.99K	-
9	Bhutan	13.63K	-	16.94K	-	19.49K	-	10.19K	-	10.61K	-
10	Thailand	0	-	8.52K	-	0	-	0	-	10.13K	-
11	Vietnam	-	-	-	-	-	-	27.47K	-	7K	-
12	Canada	13.9	0	6.11	-	8.61	-	6.26K	-	6.88K	-
13	Malaysia	381.99	-	549.31	-	1.36K	-	760.88	-	6.41K	-
14	United Kingdom	129.47	0.01	282.63	-	179.21	-	10.42K	-	4.75K	-
15	France	16.89	-	14.96	-	0.64	-	2.94K	-	3.23K	-
16	South Korea	25.98	0	23.34	-	12.57	-	1.26K	-	2.65K	-
17	Pakistan	486.44	-	0	-	950.23	-	8.07K	-	1.76K	-
18	Netherlands	0	0	0	-	5.12	-	1.51K	-	1.54K	-
19	Maldives	791.14	-	807.11	-	928.04	-	1.03K	-	1.05K	-
20	Saudi Arabia	113.2	0.01	271.62	-	173.45	-	2.13K	-	940.12	-
21	Portugal	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.14K	-	770.13	-
22	Switzerland	2.17	0	1.02	-	3.1	-	861.13	-	755.73	-
23	Kyrgyzstan	-	-	-	-	-	-	268.07	-	694.27	-
24	Denmark	0	0	0	-	0.73	-	529.91	-	549.59	-
25	Finland	1.2	0	1.75	-	2.5	-	362.69	-	436.79	-
26	Czech Republic	0.02	0	0	-	0	-	237.39	-	332.22	-
27	Slovakia	-	-	-	-	-	-	89.14	-	292.55	-
28	Cyprus	-	-	0.01	-	1.13	-	100.57	-	258.03	-
29	Iraq	-	-	55.35	-	0	-	62.05	-	252.74	-
30	United States	421	-	570.85	-	491.21	-	891.98	-	228.08	-
31	Lithuania	-	-	-	-	-	-	317.68	-	220.63	-
32	Romania	3.5	0	3.06	-	2.77	-	321.81	-	217.19	-
33	New Zealand	0.96	0	1.22	-	1.99	-	275.88	-	192.23	-
34	Greece	0.84	0	0.09	-	27.31	-	146.36	-	192.18	-
35	Hong Kong	0	0	15.92	-	15.91	-	70.11	-	166.13	-
36	Comoros	-	-	-	-	-	-	147.56	-	158.47	-
37	Libya	-	-	-	-	-	-	114.02	-	140.98	-
38	Latvia	-	-	-	-	0.01	-	120.72	-	130.79	-
39	Norway	-	-	-	-	-	-	123.68	-	112.27	-
40	Bahrain	0.71	-	0.69	-	0.65	-	70.2	-	111.5	-
41	Yemen	-	-	84.19	0.01	138.09	-	175.09	-	106.73	-
42	Luxembourg	-	-	-	-	-	-	83.67	-	101.27	-
43	Estonia	-	-	-	-	-	-	68.15	-	86.74	-
44	Morocco	-	-	47.05	-	0	-	1.82	-	82.62	-
45	Panama	0.02	0	0	-	0	-	39.44	-	69.07	-
46	Colombia	-	-	-	-	-	-	10.17	-	67.81	-
47	Dominican Republic	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	65.52	-
48	Senegal	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.04K	-	60.71	-
49	Iceland	0.08	-	0.08	-	0.1	-	56.92	-	59.81	-
50	Hungary	-	-	-	-	0	-	69.65	-	58.28	-
51	Slovenia	-	-	-	-	-	-	104.14	-	55.4	-
52	Kenya	101.35	0.01	3.26	-	1.22	-	17.16	-	53.22	-
53	Fiji	3.23	-	0.99	-	0.27	-	12.8	-	50.97	-
54	Qatar	2.75	-	5	-	0	-	0	-	47.12	-
55	Croatia	-	-	-	-	-	-	42.42	-	44.99	-
56	Laos	-	-	0	-	-	-	2.06K	-	44.33	-
57	Tunisia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	39.75	-
58	Botswana	0	-	0.05	-	0	-	31.34	-	37.23	-
59	Mauritius	2.94	0.01	1.59	-	2.98	-	18.66	-	35.83	-
60	Malta	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	-	33.87	-
61	Uzbekistan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	28.31	-
62	Costa Rica	-	-	-	-	-	-	31.33	-	26.96	-
63	Belarus	-	-	-	-	0.03	-	36.5	-	22.57	-
64	Australia	3.08	0	4.29	-	7.31	-	18	-	20.04	-
65	Jamaica	0.47	0	-	-	0	-	8.68	-	19.51	-
66	Uruguay	-	-	-	-	-	-	3.95	-	18.62	-
67	New Caledonia	-	-	-	-	0	-	35.38	-	18.05	-
68	DR Congo	0.71	0	0.69	-	0.28	-	13.06	-	15.05	-
69	Oman	35.15	-	8.21	-	0	-	38.35	-	14.25	-
70	Mozambique	1.53	-	1.09	-	1.83	-	3.15	-	11.1	-
71	Gabon	-	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	9.86	-
72	Macau	-	-	-	-	-	-	15.71	-	9.21	-
73	Lesotho	0	-	0	-	0	-	0.03	-	7.43	-
74	Zambia	0.11	0	0.01	-	0.35	-	1.89	-	7.18	-
75	Congo	1.98	0	-	-	0	-	1.47	-	6.35	-
76	Ukraine	11.46	0	0	-	0	-	0	-	5.41	-
77	Angola	0	0	1.07	-	1.42	-	0.21	-	5.15	-
78	Barbados	-	-	0.36	-	-	-	0	-	4.45	-
79	French Polynesia	-	-	-	-	0	-	-	-	4.19	-
80	Armenia	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.23	-	4.13	-
81	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.65	-	3.92	-
82	Lebanon	5.68	-	5.78	-	5.42	-	4.1	-	3.63	-
83	El Salvador	-	-	-	-	-	-	4.73	-	3.31	-
84	Azerbaijan	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.45	-	3.12	-
85	Namibia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.79	-
86	Montenegro	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.57	-	2.37	-
87	Papua New Guinea	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.13	-
88	Syria	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.91	-	2.09	-
89	Marshall Islands	0.06	-	0	-	0.01	-	1.76	-	1.8	-
90	Germany	6.52	0	6.36	-	3.76	-	0	-	1.6	-
91	Trinidad and Tobago	5.86	-	2.02	-	0	-	3.94	-	1.42	-
92	Timor-Leste	0.14	-	0.29	-	0.66	-	0.21	-	1.3	-
93	North Macedonia	-	-	-	-	0	-	0.84	-	1.06	-
94	Seychelles	0.97	-	1.96	-	0.23	-	1.32	-	0.75	-
95	Sierra Leone	0.15	0	0	-	0.02	-	11.08	-	0.69	-
96	Vanuatu	-	-	-	-	0	-	0.86	-	0.58	-
97	Solomon Islands	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.57	-
98	Tanzania	-	-	0	-	-	-	3.14	-	0.52	-
99	Guinea	-	-	-	-	0.06	-	0.84	-	0.51	-
100	Rwanda	-	-	0	0	0.07	0	0.28	0	0.46	0
101	Algeria	-	-	-	-	-	-	5.63	-	0.45	-
102	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.26	-	0.31	-
103	Georgia	0.01	-	0	-	0	-	0.13	-	0.29	-
104	Guyana	0.09	-	0.16	-	0.44	-	0	-	0.26	-
105	Micronesia	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.78	-	0.21	-
106	Tonga	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1	-
107	Gambia	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.03	-	0.09	-
108	Paraguay	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.32	-	0.04	-
109	Turkmenistan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.03	-
110	Spain	0	0	0	-	0.02	-	0.02	-	0.02	-
111	Belize	0.24	-	0	-	0	-	0.02	-	0.01	-
112	Saint Kitts and Nevis	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.03	-	0.01	-
113	Samoa	-	-	-	-	3.27	-	0	-	0.01	-
114	Afghanistan	5.73K	0.41	8.62K	-	1.4K	-	16.28	-	0	-
115	Austria	0	0	0.3	-	0.4	-	0.13	-	0	-
116	Bahamas	0.02	0	0.01	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
117	Belgium	0.54	-	0	-	11.13	-	1.17K	-	0	-
118	Cambodia	0	-	130	-	1.12K	-	1.48K	-	0	-
119	Cameroon	0.05	0	0.13	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
120	Chile	0	0	-	-	0	-	1.33	-	0	-
121	Ethiopia	-	-	-	-	0.2	-	3.34	-	0	-
122	Guinea-Bissau	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.16	0	0	0
123	Honduras	-	-	3.01	-	0.74	-	0	-	0	-
124	Italy	0.21	0	-	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
125	Ivory Coast	-	-	6	-	0	-	0.01	-	0	-
126	Kazakhstan	0.01	0	0.03	-	0.16	-	0	-	0	-
127	Kuwait	1.5	-	19.05	-	59.91	-	0	-	0	-
128	Madagascar	0.36	-	0.35	-	0.39	-	0	-	0	-
129	Malawi	0.24	0	0	-	-	-	0	-	0	-
130	Nicaragua	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.02	-	0	-
131	Niger	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.66	-	0	-
132	Poland	184.91	0.01	248.44	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
133	South Africa	100.46	0	120.54	-	83.55	-	0	-	0	-
134	Uganda	1.49	-	5.05	-	2.27	-	0	-	0	-
135	United Arab Emirates	334.69	0.09	0	-	0	-	191.06	-	0	-
136	Zimbabwe	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.05	-	0	-
137	Philippines	0.13	-	1.36	-	0.74	-	-	-	-	-
138	Kiribati	-	-	-	-	0.02	-	-	-	-	-
139	Liberia	0.05	0	0.03	-	0	-	-	-	-	-

Methodology

Tonnes are FAO's food supply quantity for areca nuts, taken from element 5141; the grams per person per day come from element 665, and both cover 2019 to 2023. Change figures divide by the earlier year, and no percentage is reported when the base is zero. A comparison uses only countries holding a value in both years. A zero cell is a reported zero and a blank cell is a missing report, and the two are never swapped. The values describe food available for human consumption, with no allowance for household waste or losses, so they exceed the amount eaten. The table lists 139 countries, with World, regions and the China aggregate removed and China kept as one row; 136 carry a 2023 value and form the annual total. FAO's areca per-person column is empty for 2023 except in two countries. Compiled by StatsGeo from FAO FAOSTAT.