Castor Oil Seeds Consumption by Country
France reported 0.26 tonnes of castor oil seed food supply in 2023, about three-fifths of an 8-country table. All 8 were in Europe, and their values totalled less than a single tonne. No per-person series exists for this item. Only a handful of countries report this item, so the table below covers the full known scope, counting food available for human consumption rather than actual intake.
France clearly leads castor oil seed food supply in 2023, holding more than half of a table totalling under a tonne. Romania follows in second. The listed total stands at less than half a tonne, down by half in the latest year and a quarter between 2019 and 2023.
Direct Answer
Which country had the highest castor oil seed food supply in 2023? France, with 0.26 tonnes, ranked first among the 8 countries in the table. Romania followed with 0.09 tonnes and Sweden with 0.05 tonnes. The full 2023 total was only 0.43 tonnes, and no country had a 2023 per-person food supply figure for this item.
Where Castor Seed Supply Sat
France led, ahead of Romania and Sweden. Luxembourg followed at 0.02 tonnes and the Czech Republic at 0.01, while Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom reported zero. The top three countries held 93.0 percent of the listed volume, and France stood 2.89 times Romania.
The 8 countries with a 2023 value fit inside a single tonne, with France alone supplying three-fifths; the remaining seven countries split the rest, with three of them at reported zero. France also posted 0.9 tonnes in 2021, the second-largest single-year figure on record here, before falling to zero in 2022 and returning to the top. FAO's per-capita series for this item ends before the window, so no 2023 grams-per-day figure exists for any country. The United Kingdom reported 0.44 tonnes in 2022 and zero in 2023; with a zero base, no percentage applies. FAO lists zero for the United Kingdom in 2023; zeros after large values are worth checking against the source. The Czech Republic fell 94.7 percent, from 0.19 tonnes to 0.01, and Romania halved from 0.18 to 0.09. France rose from a zero base, while Sweden had no 2019 value and reached 0.05 tonnes in 2023. Among the 7 countries present in both 2019 and 2023, supply fell 25.5 percent. Italy and Germany both went from small 2019 values to zero, while France rose from a zero base and Luxembourg halved from 0.04 to 0.02 tonnes. The United Kingdom's path ran from 5.93 tonnes in 2020 through 0.44 in 2022 to zero. The middle of the window belonged to the United Kingdom, with 5.93 tonnes in 2020 followed by 0.49 in 2021. France's 0.9 tonnes in 2021 was the only other reading above half a tonne in any year. Italy and Germany last posted values in 2019, at 0.2 and 0.1 tonnes, and reported zero in every year after. Luxembourg had the narrowest range among the countries with values in all five years, staying between 0.02 and 0.07 tonnes. This page follows the SUA item labelled Castor oil seeds and counts only its rows; World, regional and aggregate rows are not in the table. The annual listed supply total sums the countries with a 2023 value. Food here means supply available for people to eat in the reference year, not amounts eaten. For castor oil seeds, tonnage follows element 5141 and daily grams follow element 665 across 2019 to 2023. A change is measured from the earlier year; none is stated from a zero base. Only countries present in both compared years enter a change. A reported zero is not a blank, and blanks never stand in for zeros. Only a handful of countries report castor oil seed food supply at all, so the table below covers the full known scope. The file holds eight countries after removing World, regional and aggregate rows; all 8 carry 2023 values, and none carries a 2023 per-person value. Sub-tonne readings dominate this file, so small absolute moves look large. The numbers describe food available for human consumption. Source: FAO FAOSTAT, compiled by StatsGeo.A Table Under One Tonne
Castor Oil Seeds Consumption
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0.26
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2
0.09
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3
0.05
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4
0.02
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5
0.01
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6
0
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7
0
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8
0
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The United Kingdom's Return to Zero
Castor Seed Across Five Years
Castor Seed's Quiet Middle Years
What Castor Seed Covers
Castor Oil Seeds Consumption by Country
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1
0
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0
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0.9
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0
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0.26
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2
0.07
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0.02
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0.05
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0.18
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0.09
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3
-
-
0
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0
-
0
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0.05
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4
0.04
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0.07
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0.06
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0.02
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0.02
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5
0.1
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0
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0
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0.19
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0.01
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6
0.1
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0
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0
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0
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0
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7
0.2
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0
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0
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0
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0
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8
0
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5.93
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0.49
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0.44
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0
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Methodology
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is the total castor oil seed supply so small?
Only 8 countries have a 2023 value for this item, and their combined food supply is just 0.43 tonnes. The series is therefore much smaller than most food-supply datasets on StatsGeo.
Is this the amount of castor oil seed people actually consumed?
No. The figures represent food available for human consumption in the reference year, not actual intake. The dataset therefore describes food supply rather than measured consumption.
Which country had the highest value in 2023?
France, at 0.26 tonnes, ranked first, followed by Romania at 0.09 tonnes and Sweden at 0.05 tonnes. France accounted for about 60.5 percent of the listed 2023 total.
Why did the United Kingdom fall to zero?
The United Kingdom reported 0.44 tonnes in 2022 but zero in 2023. A percentage decline is not calculated from the positive 2022 value to zero under the page's change methodology.
Are there castor oil seed figures per person?
No. The supplied FAO series has no 2023 grams-per-capita-per-day value for any country in the table, so a per-person ranking cannot be constructed from this dataset.
Data Disclaimer: Projected data (future years) are estimates based on mathematical models. Actual values may differ. Learn about our methodology →
Sources
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Updated: 08.10.2026https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/SCL
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