Cloves Consumption by Country

In 2023, India had the largest listed food supply of cloves among 90 reporters, at 21 thousand tonnes, while Comoros had the highest per-capita figure at 2.44 kilograms per person per year. The 2023 listed total was 48 thousand tonnes, with Indonesia second at 5 thousand tonnes and China and Tanzania at 3 thousand tonnes each. The series spans 2019 through 2023, although some reporters have missing values for individual years.

India leads the 2023 ranking at 21 thousand tonnes, 4.20 times Indonesia at 5 thousand tonnes. Comoros tops the per-capita ranking at 2.44 kilograms per person per year from 2 thousand tonnes, ahead of Grenada at 0.34 kilograms.

Cloves Food Supply at a Glance

• India had the largest listed cloves food supply in 2023 at 21 thousand tonnes.
• Indonesia ranked second at 5 thousand tonnes, followed by China and Tanzania at 3 thousand tonnes each.
• Comoros had the highest per-capita food supply at 2.44 kilograms per person per year.
• The 2023 listed total was 48 thousand tonnes across 90 reporters with reported values.
• Among 88 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, listed cloves food supply increased by 1 thousand tonne, or 2.1 percent.
• The FAO Food element measures food available for human consumption and is not a direct measure of the amount actually eaten.

Key Takeaways

In 2023, India had the largest listed food supply of cloves at 21 thousand tonnes, with Indonesia second at 5 thousand tonnes and China and Tanzania tied at 3 thousand tonnes each. Bangladesh, Comoros, Kenya and Saudi Arabia followed at 2 thousand tonnes each. Comoros's 2.44 kilograms per person per year lead the per-capita ranking, followed by Grenada at 0.34 kilograms.

Between 2022 and 2023, listed supply across the 90 reporters with data in both years moved from 46 thousand tonnes to 48 thousand tonnes, a gain of 2 thousand tonnes (4.3 percent). Since 2019, the common-reporter total has moved from 47 to 48 thousand tonnes, a gain of 1 thousand tonne (2.1 percent). At this scale, single-tonne movements decide the direction of both windows. These figures represent food available for human consumption in the FAO Food Balances and should not be interpreted as the amount of cloves actually eaten.

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#	Country	2023 (thousand tonnes)2023	2023 (kg per person per year)2023
1	India IN	21	0.01
2	Indonesia ID	5	0.02
3	China CN	3	0
4	Tanzania TZ	3	0.05
5	Bangladesh BD	2	0.01
6	Comoros KM	2	2.44
7	Kenya KE	2	0.03
8	Saudi Arabia SA	2	0.06
9	United States US	2	0.01
10	Iran IR	1	0.01
11	Iraq IQ	1	0.03
12	Malaysia MY	1	0.02
13	Pakistan PK	1	0.01
14	Peru PE	1	0.02
15	Vietnam VN	1	0.01
16	Algeria DZ	0	0
17	Antigua and Barbuda AG	0	0.09
18	Australia AU	0	0.01
19	Austria AT	0	0.01
20	Bahamas BS	0	0.01
21	Bahrain BH	0	0.04
22	Barbados BB	0	0.04
23	Bhutan BT	0	0
24	Bolivia BO	0	0.01
25	Canada CA	0	0.01
26	Chile CL	0	0.01
27	Colombia CO	0	0
28	Congo CG	0	0.01
29	Costa Rica CR	0	0
30	Cyprus CY	0	0.01
31	Denmark DK	0	0.01
32	Djibouti DJ	0	0.08
33	Dominican Republic DO	0	0.03
34	Ecuador EC	0	0
35	Egypt EG	0	0
36	Estonia EE	0	0
37	Ethiopia ET	0	0
38	Fiji FJ	0	0.04
39	Finland FI	0	0
40	Gambia GM	0	0
41	Germany DE	0	0.01
42	Ghana GH	0	0
43	Greece GR	0	0
44	Grenada GD	0	0.34
45	Guyana GY	0	0.02
46	Haiti HT	0	0.02
47	Iceland IS	0	0
48	Ireland IE	0	0
49	Israel IL	0	0
50	Jordan JO	0	0.01
51	Kuwait KW	0	0.04
52	Latvia LV	0	0
53	Lebanon LB	0	0.02
54	Libya LY	0	0.02
55	Madagascar MG	0	0
56	Maldives MV	0	0.15
57	Malta MT	0	0
58	Marshall Islands MH	0	0.01
59	Mauritania MR	0	0.01
60	Mauritius MU	0	0.03
61	Mexico MX	0	0
62	Morocco MA	0	0
63	Namibia NA	0	0
64	Nauru NR	0	0
65	Nepal NP	0	0.01
66	Netherlands NL	0	0.01
67	New Zealand NZ	0	0
68	Nicaragua NI	0	0
69	Nigeria NG	0	0
70	Oman OM	0	0.03
71	Panama PA	0	0.01
72	Poland PL	0	0.01
73	Qatar QA	0	0.06
74	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	0	0
75	Saint Lucia LC	0	0.01
76	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	0	0
77	Samoa WS	0	0
78	Senegal SN	0	0.02
79	Seychelles SC	0	0.07
80	South Africa ZA	0	0.01
81	Sri Lanka LK	0	0
82	Sweden SE	0	0.01
83	Syria SY	0	0.02
84	Taiwan TW	0	0.01
85	Trinidad and Tobago TT	0	0.03
86	Tunisia TN	0	0
87	Türkiye TR	0	0
88	United Arab Emirates AE	0	0
89	United Kingdom GB	0	0.01
90	Yemen YE	0	0.01

Cloves Consumption by Country in 2023

The 2023 table is led by India, whose listed food supply of cloves reached 21 thousand tonnes. Indonesia followed with 5 thousand tonnes and China and Tanzania with 3 thousand tonnes each. Bangladesh, Comoros, Kenya and Saudi Arabia completed the top eight at 2 thousand tonnes each.

India holds 43.8 percent of the 48-thousand-tonne listed total. The top three reporters accounted for 60.4 percent of the listed total, while the top five represented 70.8 percent and the top ten 89.6 percent. Most reporters in the 90-country universe show a reported zero for 2023.

India Adds 5 Thousand Tonnes as Supply Edges Up 4.3 Percent Between 2022 and 2023

Among the 90 reporters with data in both 2022 and 2023, the listed food supply increased from 46 thousand tonnes to 48 thousand tonnes, a gain of 2 thousand tonnes (4.3 percent). The 2022 and 2023 listed totals come from the same 90 reporters, with no reporter entering or leaving the comparison. India added 5 thousand tonnes (up 31.2 percent), Bangladesh added 1 thousand tonne (up 100.0 percent), Comoros added 1 thousand tonne (up 100.0 percent) and Iran added 1 thousand tonne from a zero base, while Egypt, Germany and Ghana each fell 1 thousand tonne (down 100.0 percent) and Malaysia fell 1 thousand tonne (down 50.0 percent).

India Adds 8 Thousand Tonnes as Supply Edges Up 2.1 Percent Since 2019

For the 88 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, the listed food supply moved from 47 thousand tonnes to 48 thousand tonnes, a gain of 1 thousand tonne (2.1 percent). The 2019 total includes 88 reporters with reported values, while the 2023 total includes 90; Gambia and Mauritania entered with reported zeros. India added 8 thousand tonnes (up 61.5 percent), China added 2 thousand tonnes (up 200.0 percent), Comoros added 2 thousand tonnes from a zero base and Bangladesh added 1 thousand tonne (up 100.0 percent), while Madagascar fell 8 thousand tonnes (down 100.0 percent), Tanzania fell 2 thousand tonnes (down 40.0 percent), Egypt fell 1 thousand tonne (down 100.0 percent) and Ethiopia fell 1 thousand tonne (down 100.0 percent).

India's 8-thousand-tonne gain and Madagascar's 8-thousand-tonne exit mirror each other almost exactly, leaving the five-year net at 1 thousand tonne. Per capita, Comoros's 2.44 kilograms from 2 thousand tonnes lead Grenada at 0.34 kilograms, while India, first by total, records 0.01 kilograms.

What Does the Cloves Food Supply Measure?

For FAO Food Balances, the figure used here is the FAO item Cloves recorded under the Food element as available for human consumption. It represents food available for human consumption during the reference year rather than a direct estimate of the amount of cloves people actually ate. Other spices recorded under separate items sit outside this figure.

The per-capita figure expresses the same food supply on a population basis, in kilograms per person per year. A country's total quantity and per-capita value therefore answer different questions: total quantity shows the size of the listed food supply, while the per-capita measure adjusts it for population.

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#	Country	2019 (1000 t)	2019 (kg/cap/yr)	2020 (1000 t)	2020 (kg/cap/yr)	2021 (1000 t)	2021 (kg/cap/yr)	2022 (1000 t)	2022 (kg/cap/yr)	2023 (1000 t)	2023 (kg/cap/yr)
1	India	13	0.01	22	0.02	19	0.01	16	0.01	21	0.01
2	Indonesia	4	0.02	4	0.01	5	0.02	5	0.02	5	0.02
3	China	1	0	3	0	3	0	3	0	3	0
4	Tanzania	5	0.09	4	0.07	1	0.02	2	0.03	3	0.05
5	Bangladesh	1	0	1	0.01	1	0.01	1	0.01	2	0.01
6	Comoros	0	0.42	2	2.65	3	4.1	1	1.76	2	2.44
7	Kenya	2	0.03	2	0.03	2	0.03	2	0.03	2	0.03
8	Saudi Arabia	2	0.06	2	0.06	2	0.06	2	0.07	2	0.06
9	United States	2	0	2	0.01	2	0	2	0.01	2	0.01
10	Iran	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.01
11	Iraq	1	0.02	1	0.04	1	0.02	1	0.02	1	0.03
12	Malaysia	2	0.06	2	0.06	2	0.06	2	0.05	1	0.02
13	Pakistan	1	0.01	2	0.01	2	0.01	1	0.01	1	0.01
14	Peru	0	0.01	1	0.03	0	0.01	0	0.01	1	0.02
15	Vietnam	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	1	0.01
16	Algeria	0	0	2	0.03	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	Antigua and Barbuda	0	0.07	0	0.02	0	0.09	0	0.09	0	0.09
18	Australia	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
19	Austria	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
20	Bahamas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01
21	Bahrain	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0.04
22	Barbados	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.02	0	0.04	0	0.04
23	Bhutan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
24	Bolivia	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
25	Canada	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
26	Chile	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
27	Colombia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
28	Congo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
29	Costa Rica	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
30	Cyprus	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
31	Denmark	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
32	Djibouti	0	0	0	0.34	0	0.24	0	0.03	0	0.08
33	Dominican Republic	0	0.04	0	0.03	0	0.02	0	0.04	0	0.03
34	Ecuador	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
35	Egypt	1	0.01	0	0	1	0.01	1	0.01	0	0
36	Estonia	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0
37	Ethiopia	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	Fiji	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.02	0	0.04
39	Finland	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	Gambia	-	-	-	-	0	0	0	0.02	0	0
41	Germany	1	0.01	1	0.01	1	0.01	1	0.01	0	0.01
42	Ghana	0	0.01	1	0.03	0	0.01	1	0.02	0	0
43	Greece	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0
44	Grenada	0	0.3	0	0.32	0	0.31	0	0.31	0	0.34
45	Guyana	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02
46	Haiti	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.02
47	Iceland	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0
48	Ireland	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
49	Israel	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0
50	Jordan	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
51	Kuwait	0	0.05	0	0.04	0	0.03	0	0.05	0	0.04
52	Latvia	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
53	Lebanon	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.02
54	Libya	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02
55	Madagascar	8	0.27	8	0.29	1	0.05	0	0	0	0
56	Maldives	0	0.23	0	0.08	0	0.12	0	0.14	0	0.15
57	Malta	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0
58	Marshall Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.13	0	0.01
59	Mauritania	-	-	0	0	-	-	0	0	0	0.01
60	Mauritius	0	0.03	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.04	0	0.03
61	Mexico	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.01	0	0
62	Morocco	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0
63	Namibia	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0
64	Nauru	0	0	0	0.02	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
65	Nepal	0	0.01	1	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
66	Netherlands	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.01
67	New Zealand	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
68	Nicaragua	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
69	Nigeria	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
70	Oman	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.05	0	0.03
71	Panama	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
72	Poland	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01
73	Qatar	0	0.04	0	0.04	0	0.04	0	0.05	0	0.06
74	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0	0	0.05	0	0.04	0	0.06	0	0
75	Saint Lucia	0	0.02	0	0.04	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01
76	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0	0.06	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
77	Samoa	0	0	0	0	0	0.02	0	0	0	0
78	Senegal	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.03	0	0.02
79	Seychelles	0	0.05	0	0.04	0	0.06	0	0.09	0	0.07
80	South Africa	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01
81	Sri Lanka	1	0.03	2	0.07	1	0.05	1	0.06	0	0
82	Sweden	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
83	Syria	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.02
84	Taiwan	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
85	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0.01	0	0.03	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.03
86	Tunisia	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
87	Türkiye	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0
88	United Arab Emirates	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
89	United Kingdom	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	1	0.01	0	0.01
90	Yemen	0	0.01	1	0.03	1	0.02	1	0.02	0	0.01

Cloves Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

In 2023, according to FAO Food Balances, India had the largest listed food supply of cloves among the 90 reporters with reported values, at 21 thousand tonnes. Indonesia ranked second at 5 thousand tonnes, while China and Tanzania tied at 3 thousand tonnes each. Comoros had the highest per-capita cloves food supply at 2.44 kilograms per person per year. These FAO Food Balances figures represent food available for human consumption, not a direct measurement of cloves actually eaten.

Methodology

Percentage changes use the corresponding value in the earlier year as the base. Yearly totals use FAO Food Balances food quantity (Element 5142, thousand tonnes), while the per-capita figures use food supply quantity (Element 645, kg/capita/year) for Cloves from 2019 through 2023. The Food element represents the quantity available for human consumption during the reference period. It is not a direct measure of the amount actually eaten, as food can be lost or wasted before it is consumed. No percentage change is shown where the base-year value is zero.

The reporter universe for this item contains 90 reporters. The tables list reporters only; aggregate rows such as World, regions and China (aggregate) are excluded, while China figures refer to the China reporter. For year-to-year comparisons, only reporters with values in both endpoint years are included in the arithmetic. A zero indicates a displayed value of zero, while an empty cell indicates that no value is available for that reporter and year.

Quantities of 1,000 thousand tonnes and above are shown as whole numbers; smaller quantities retain up to two decimals. FAO Food Balances primarily use official national statistics, with some data also estimated or imputed where applicable. The FAO dataset reports the Food element in thousand tonnes and food supply quantity in kilograms per capita per year. The 2023 listed total of 48 thousand tonnes is the sum of the 90 reporters with a reported 2023 value; it excludes aggregate rows and reporters without a 2023 value.