Lemons and Limes Consumption by Country

In 2023, the United States had the largest listed lemons and limes food supply among 173 reporters, at 5,800 thousand tonnes, while the Bahamas had the highest per-capita figure at 80.08 kilograms per person per year. The 2023 listed total was 22,461 thousand tonnes, with India second at 3,076 thousand tonnes and Mexico third at 2,244 thousand tonnes. The series spans 2019 through 2023, although some reporters have missing values in individual years.

The United States leads the 2023 ranking at 5,800 thousand tonnes, 1.89 times India at 3,076 thousand tonnes. The Bahamas tops the per-capita ranking at 80.08 kilograms per person per year from 32 thousand tonnes, ahead of Tonga at 19.67 kilograms.

Lemons and Limes Food Supply at a Glance

• The United States had the largest listed lemons and limes food supply in 2023 at 5,800 thousand tonnes.
• India ranked second at 3,076 thousand tonnes, followed by Mexico at 2,244 thousand tonnes.
• The Bahamas had the highest per-capita food supply at 80.08 kilograms per person per year.
• The 2023 listed total was 22,461 thousand tonnes across 173 reporters with reported values.
• Among 171 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, listed lemons and limes food supply increased by 4,061 thousand tonnes, or 22.1 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, the United States led listed lemons and limes food supply at 5,800 thousand tonnes, with India second at 3,076 thousand tonnes and Mexico third at 2,244 thousand tonnes. China followed at 1,964 thousand tonnes and Türkiye at 1,483 thousand tonnes after more than tripling since 2019. The Bahamas' 80.08 kilograms per person per year lead the per-capita ranking, followed by Tonga at 19.67 kilograms.

Between 2022 and 2023, listed supply across the 173 reporters with data in both years rose from 21,238 thousand tonnes to 22,461 thousand tonnes, a gain of 1,223 thousand tonnes (5.8 percent), as Türkiye added 845 thousand tonnes and Spain added 200 thousand tonnes. Since 2019, the common-reporter total has grown 22.1 percent, with the United States contributing 33.1 percent of the increase. These figures represent food available for human consumption in the FAO Food Balances and should not be interpreted as the amount of lemons and limes actually eaten.

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#	Country	2023 (thousand tonnes)2023	2023 (kg per person per year)2023
1	United States US	5.8K	16.88
2	India IN	3.08K	2.14
3	Mexico MX	2.24K	17.3
4	China CN	1.96K	1.38
5	Türkiye TR	1.48K	16.99
6	Brazil BR	1.02K	4.83
7	Argentina AR	590	12.97
8	Italy IT	500	8.4
9	Colombia CO	432	8.25
10	Spain ES	350	7.31
11	Iran IR	346	3.82
12	Russia RU	261	1.79
13	Chile CL	208	10.6
14	Iraq IQ	207	5.36
15	Germany DE	203	2.4
16	Peru PE	170	5.03
17	France FR	153	2.3
18	Canada CA	150	3.81
19	Syria SY	150	6.34
20	United Kingdom GB	143	2.08
21	Egypt EG	141	1.23
22	Poland PL	131	3.39
23	Guatemala GT	109	6.02
24	Thailand TH	104	1.46
25	Bangladesh BD	91	0.53
26	Algeria DZ	88	1.9
27	Pakistan PK	88	0.36
28	Venezuela VE	83	2.92
29	Dominican Republic DO	76	6.68
30	Lebanon LB	74	12.82
31	Netherlands NL	74	4.09
32	Greece GR	72	7.06
33	Romania RO	68	3.56
34	Yemen YE	67	1.7
35	Nepal NP	65	2.19
36	Israel IL	60	6.51
37	Belgium BE	56	4.78
38	Kenya KE	55	1
39	Malaysia MY	54	1.53
40	Tunisia TN	54	4.41
41	Australia AU	52	1.97
42	Zimbabwe ZW	52	3.16
43	Saudi Arabia SA	49	1.46
44	Ukraine UA	46	1.22
45	Ghana GH	44	1.3
46	South Africa ZA	39	0.62
47	Portugal PT	37	3.56
48	Costa Rica CR	36	6.95
49	Austria AT	34	3.73
50	Taiwan TW	33	1.42
51	Uruguay UY	33	9.86
52	Bahamas BS	32	80.08
53	Czech Republic CZ	32	2.96
54	Jordan JO	32	2.77
55	Sweden SE	32	3.06
56	Morocco MA	29	0.76
57	United Arab Emirates AE	28	2.63
58	Libya LY	27	3.68
59	Oman OM	27	5.25
60	Azerbaijan AZ	26	2.49
61	Honduras HN	24	2.27
62	Serbia RS	24	3.6
63	Ecuador EC	23	1.3
64	Hong Kong HK	23	3.1
65	Jamaica JM	23	8.21
66	Malawi MW	23	1.1
67	South Korea KR	22	0.43
68	Denmark DK	20	3.36
69	Bulgaria BG	19	2.74
70	El Salvador SV	19	2.98
71	Slovakia SK	19	3.37
72	Philippines PH	18	0.16
73	Bolivia BO	17	1.4
74	Croatia HR	17	4.25
75	Switzerland CH	17	1.97
76	Albania AL	13	4.46
77	Hungary HU	13	1.31
78	Namibia NA	13	4.23
79	Panama PA	13	2.91
80	Sri Lanka LK	13	0.56
81	Uzbekistan UZ	13	0.36
82	Bahrain BH	12	7.72
83	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	12	3.86
84	Kuwait KW	12	2.45
85	Qatar QA	12	4.05
86	Norway NO	11	1.92
87	Paraguay PY	11	1.64
88	Belarus BY	10	1.07
89	DR Congo CD	10	0.09
90	Indonesia ID	10	0.03
91	Tanzania TZ	10	0.14
92	Ireland IE	9	1.74
93	Mauritius MU	9	6.92
94	Guyana GY	8	9.69
95	Senegal SN	8	0.45
96	Finland FI	7	1.2
97	Lithuania LT	7	2.36
98	North Macedonia MK	7	4.07
99	Slovenia SI	7	3.2
100	Kazakhstan KZ	6	0.31
101	Laos LA	6	0.77
102	Maldives MV	6	11.26
103	New Zealand NZ	6	1.07
104	Rwanda RW	6	0.43
105	Armenia AM	5	1.63
106	Congo CG	5	0.78
107	Djibouti DJ	5	3.92
108	Moldova MD	5	1.99
109	Mozambique MZ	5	0.14
110	Guinea-Bissau GW	4	1.9
111	Latvia LV	4	2.1
112	Madagascar MG	4	0.13
113	Montenegro ME	4	6.14
114	Cambodia KH	3	0.16
115	Cyprus CY	3	2.46
116	Estonia EE	3	1.92
117	Ethiopia ET	3	0.02
118	Georgia GE	3	0.88
119	Kyrgyzstan KG	3	0.44
120	Trinidad and Tobago TT	3	1.73
121	Barbados BB	2	7.25
122	Fiji FJ	2	2.21
123	Haiti HT	2	0.16
124	Ivory Coast CI	2	0.07
125	Luxembourg LU	2	2.63
126	Macau MO	2	2.35
127	Myanmar MM	2	0.03
128	Tajikistan TJ	2	0.17
129	Tonga TO	2	19.67
130	Afghanistan AF	1	0.03
131	Angola AO	1	0.03
132	Antigua and Barbuda AG	1	6.09
133	Cape Verde CV	1	1.3
134	French Polynesia PF	1	1.91
135	Iceland IS	1	2
136	Malta MT	1	2.74
137	Mauritania MR	1	0.14
138	New Caledonia NC	1	2.85
139	Nicaragua NI	1	0.12
140	Nigeria NG	1	0
141	Vanuatu VU	1	2.91
142	Belize BZ	0	0.46
143	Bhutan BT	0	0.57
144	Botswana BW	0	0.18
145	Burkina Faso BF	0	0.02
146	Cameroon CM	0	0
147	Comoros KM	0	0.08
148	Eswatini SZ	0	0.01
149	Gabon GA	0	0.03
150	Gambia GM	0	0
151	Grenada GD	0	3.79
152	Guinea GN	0	0
153	Kiribati KI	0	0
154	Lesotho LS	0	0.06
155	Liberia LR	0	0
156	Marshall Islands MH	0	0.83
157	Micronesia FM	0	0
158	Mongolia MN	0	0.04
159	Nauru NR	0	0.88
160	Papua New Guinea PG	0	0.04
161	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	0	0
162	Saint Lucia LC	0	1.5
163	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	0	1.36
164	Samoa WS	0	0
165	Sao Tome and Principe ST	0	0.02
166	Seychelles SC	0	1.17
167	Sierra Leone SL	0	0.01
168	Solomon Islands SB	0	0
169	Suriname SR	0	0.3
170	Timor-Leste TL	0	0.03
171	Turkmenistan TM	0	0.01
172	Tuvalu TV	0	0.02
173	Zambia ZM	0	0.02

Lemons and Limes Consumption by Country in 2023

The United States holds 5,800 thousand tonnes, or 25.8 percent of the 22,461-thousand-tonne listed total. India follows at 3,076 thousand tonnes (13.7 percent) and Mexico at 2,244 thousand tonnes (10.0 percent), with China fourth at 1,964 thousand tonnes and Türkiye fifth at 1,483 thousand tonnes.

The top three reporters account for 49.5 percent of the listed total, while the top five account for 64.9 percent and the top ten account for 77.7 percent. Türkiye ranks fifth after rising from 410 thousand tonnes in 2019.

Türkiye Adds 845 Thousand Tonnes as Supply Grows 5.8 Percent Between 2022 and 2023

Among the 173 reporters with data in both 2022 and 2023, the listed food supply increased from 21,238 thousand tonnes to 22,461 thousand tonnes, a gain of 1,223 thousand tonnes (5.8 percent). The 2022 and 2023 listed totals come from the same 173 reporters, with no reporter entering or leaving the comparison. Türkiye added 845 thousand tonnes (up 132.4 percent), Spain added 200 thousand tonnes (up 133.3 percent), Mexico added 151 thousand tonnes (up 7.2 percent), Brazil added 54 thousand tonnes (up 5.6 percent) and Syria added 46 thousand tonnes (up 44.2 percent), while Argentina fell 141 thousand tonnes (down 19.3 percent), the United States fell 58 thousand tonnes (down 1.0 percent) and Saudi Arabia fell 50 thousand tonnes (down 50.5 percent).

United States Adds 1,343 Thousand Tonnes as Supply Grows 22.1 Percent Since 2019

For the 171 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, the listed food supply rose from 18,399 thousand tonnes to 22,460 thousand tonnes, a gain of 4,061 thousand tonnes (22.1 percent). The 2019 total includes 172 reporters with reported values, while the 2023 total includes 173; Cuba, with 4 thousand tonnes in 2019, had no reported 2023 value, while Bhutan and Mauritania entered with a combined 1 thousand tonne. The United States added 1,343 thousand tonnes (up 30.1 percent), Türkiye added 1,073 thousand tonnes (up 261.7 percent), Mexico added 742 thousand tonnes (up 49.4 percent), Spain added 254 thousand tonnes (up 264.6 percent), India added 248 thousand tonnes (up 8.8 percent) and Colombia added 148 thousand tonnes (up 52.1 percent), while China fell 223 thousand tonnes (down 10.2 percent) and Syria fell 212 thousand tonnes (down 58.6 percent).

The United States contributes 33.1 percent of the five-year net increase, followed by Türkiye at 26.4 percent and Mexico at 18.3 percent. Türkiye's five-year path runs 410 to 638 to 1,483 thousand tonnes. Per capita, the Bahamas' 80.08 kilograms from 32 thousand tonnes lead Tonga at 19.67 kilograms, while the United States, first by total, records 16.88 kilograms.

What Does Lemons and Limes Consumption Measure?

For FAO Food Balances, the lemons and limes figure used here covers lemons, limes and similar citrus 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 how much of these fruits people actually consumed. Other citrus recorded under their own 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	United States	4.46K	13.2	5.23K	15.4	6.07K	17.83	5.86K	17.15	5.8K	16.88
2	India	2.83K	2.04	2.99K	2.13	2.88K	2.03	3.07K	2.15	3.08K	2.14
3	Mexico	1.5K	11.94	1.71K	13.46	1.87K	14.65	2.09K	16.27	2.24K	17.3
4	China	2.19K	1.54	2.18K	1.53	2.13K	1.49	1.97K	1.38	1.96K	1.38
5	Türkiye	410	4.8	628	7.3	818	9.43	638	7.33	1.48K	16.99
6	Brazil	982	4.73	1.01K	4.84	837	4	967	4.6	1.02K	4.83
7	Argentina	593	13.19	121	2.68	810	17.87	731	16.1	590	12.97
8	Italy	505	8.4	523	8.73	513	8.59	524	8.79	500	8.4
9	Colombia	284	5.68	247	4.88	392	7.65	418	8.08	432	8.25
10	Spain	96	2.03	226	4.73	185	3.88	150	3.14	350	7.31
11	Iran	343	3.93	337	3.84	355	4.02	345	3.86	346	3.82
12	Russia	222	1.52	235	1.61	246	1.69	261	1.8	261	1.79
13	Chile	84	4.37	102	5.28	116	5.97	165	8.42	208	10.6
14	Iraq	134	3.78	158	4.37	201	5.44	184	4.86	207	5.36
15	Germany	187	2.23	228	2.72	213	2.55	193	2.3	203	2.4
16	Peru	193	5.93	145	4.41	196	5.93	146	4.36	170	5.03
17	France	153	2.32	165	2.51	165	2.5	184	2.78	153	2.3
18	Canada	140	3.71	123	3.21	125	3.26	139	3.57	150	3.81
19	Syria	362	17.77	100	4.77	120	5.55	104	4.62	150	6.34
20	United Kingdom	158	2.35	161	2.4	145	2.14	141	2.07	143	2.08
21	Egypt	176	1.64	214	1.95	189	1.7	146	1.29	141	1.23
22	Poland	117	3.07	129	3.37	133	3.5	129	3.36	131	3.39
23	Guatemala	105	6.17	108	6.21	110	6.24	108	6.05	109	6.02
24	Thailand	97	1.36	93	1.3	101	1.41	102	1.43	104	1.46
25	Bangladesh	61	0.37	53	0.32	75	0.45	87	0.51	91	0.53
26	Algeria	80	1.84	78	1.78	78	1.74	83	1.82	88	1.9
27	Pakistan	71	0.31	66	0.28	90	0.38	93	0.38	88	0.36
28	Venezuela	74	2.56	74	2.58	74	2.62	79	2.8	83	2.92
29	Dominican Republic	34	3.12	40	3.64	41	3.69	55	4.89	76	6.68
30	Lebanon	74	12.71	71	12.4	70	12.21	73	12.74	74	12.82
31	Netherlands	39	2.22	56	3.18	62	3.52	75	4.17	74	4.09
32	Greece	81	7.52	83	7.79	82	7.74	92	8.81	72	7.06
33	Romania	63	3.21	63	3.23	64	3.34	64	3.33	68	3.56
34	Yemen	26	0.74	30	0.84	31	0.83	36	0.95	67	1.7
35	Nepal	51	1.8	64	2.2	65	2.22	56	1.88	65	2.19
36	Israel	65	7.51	59	6.76	64	7.21	61	6.71	60	6.51
37	Belgium	29	2.51	35	3.05	36	3.12	29	2.45	56	4.78
38	Kenya	23	0.44	91	1.75	63	1.19	62	1.15	55	1
39	Malaysia	40	1.21	42	1.23	48	1.39	51	1.47	54	1.53
40	Tunisia	49	4.14	46	3.81	50	4.14	52	4.25	54	4.41
41	Australia	26	1.04	32	1.23	30	1.14	51	1.94	52	1.97
42	Zimbabwe	14	0.89	48	3.11	51	3.23	51	3.19	52	3.16
43	Saudi Arabia	35	1.16	42	1.35	43	1.39	99	3.07	49	1.46
44	Ukraine	55	1.23	65	1.45	54	1.22	47	1.14	46	1.22
45	Ghana	44	1.4	44	1.38	44	1.35	44	1.33	44	1.3
46	South Africa	35	0.59	37	0.61	0	0	33	0.54	39	0.62
47	Portugal	32	3.14	28	2.67	42	4.06	18	1.72	37	3.56
48	Costa Rica	34	6.73	34	6.8	35	6.94	35	6.98	36	6.95
49	Austria	34	3.83	33	3.68	30	3.29	30	3.32	34	3.73
50	Taiwan	29	1.22	41	1.75	37	1.57	36	1.53	33	1.42
51	Uruguay	27	7.91	32	9.38	50	14.62	46	13.46	33	9.86
52	Bahamas	12	30.09	12	31.23	11	27.27	24	61.43	32	80.08
53	Czech Republic	33	3.12	34	3.26	32	2.99	32	2.99	32	2.96
54	Jordan	27	2.55	26	2.42	23	2.11	23	2	32	2.77
55	Sweden	29	2.79	31	2.95	32	3.03	30	2.85	32	3.06
56	Morocco	26	0.72	17	0.46	29	0.79	36	0.97	29	0.76
57	United Arab Emirates	28	2.99	77	8.19	71	7.27	32	3.08	28	2.63
58	Libya	25	3.59	25	3.57	23	3.18	22	3.08	27	3.68
59	Oman	23	5.03	25	5.49	25	5.53	36	7.58	27	5.25
60	Azerbaijan	18	1.8	17	1.65	22	2.11	24	2.33	26	2.49
61	Honduras	18	1.83	21	2.06	22	2.11	24	2.25	24	2.27
62	Serbia	21	2.95	25	3.66	26	3.77	24	3.57	24	3.6
63	Ecuador	19	1.1	32	1.8	21	1.18	35	1.98	23	1.3
64	Hong Kong	26	3.53	24	3.22	28	3.77	23	3.08	23	3.1
65	Jamaica	24	8.38	24	8.36	24	8.36	23	8.27	23	8.21
66	Malawi	14	0.73	14	0.71	14	0.69	18	0.88	23	1.1
67	South Korea	30	0.57	27	0.53	25	0.49	30	0.58	22	0.43
68	Denmark	15	2.55	14	2.34	16	2.76	20	3.44	20	3.36
69	Bulgaria	16	2.23	19	2.7	20	2.92	18	2.63	19	2.74
70	El Salvador	15	2.43	19	3.07	13	2.02	15	2.45	19	2.98
71	Slovakia	17	3.12	20	3.74	18	3.39	19	3.39	19	3.37
72	Philippines	25	0.22	37	0.33	24	0.21	18	0.16	18	0.16
73	Bolivia	18	1.56	17	1.42	17	1.39	17	1.42	17	1.4
74	Croatia	14	3.62	14	3.64	16	4.19	17	4.44	17	4.25
75	Switzerland	16	1.88	19	2.14	18	2.01	18	2.01	17	1.97
76	Albania	10	3.31	9	3.19	7	2.59	11	3.94	13	4.46
77	Hungary	14	1.48	16	1.62	13	1.35	13	1.33	13	1.31
78	Namibia	22	8.32	17	6.35	13	4.64	20	7.09	13	4.23
79	Panama	5	1.17	3	0.67	12	2.79	13	2.89	13	2.91
80	Sri Lanka	7	0.33	18	0.78	15	0.67	12	0.53	13	0.56
81	Uzbekistan	0	0.01	2	0.07	5	0.16	7	0.2	13	0.36
82	Bahrain	15	9.95	15	10.27	16	10.56	12	7.56	12	7.72
83	Bosnia and Herzegovina	12	3.56	13	4.03	14	4.3	13	3.98	12	3.86
84	Kuwait	29	6.5	14	3.14	12	2.69	13	2.84	12	2.45
85	Qatar	14	5.05	16	5.65	15	5.17	16	5.61	12	4.05
86	Norway	10	1.86	10	1.93	11	2	11	1.95	11	1.92
87	Paraguay	11	1.67	13	1.96	12	1.8	12	1.81	11	1.64
88	Belarus	9	0.95	13	1.37	10	1.06	8	0.9	10	1.07
89	DR Congo	7	0.07	6	0.07	6	0.06	8	0.08	10	0.09
90	Indonesia	19	0.07	10	0.04	8	0.03	7	0.02	10	0.03
91	Tanzania	9	0.15	10	0.16	10	0.16	10	0.15	10	0.14
92	Ireland	4	0.91	4	0.76	8	1.63	9	1.81	9	1.74
93	Mauritius	2	1.32	2	1.31	2	1.22	2	1.39	9	6.92
94	Guyana	6	7.22	6	7.65	6	7.6	7	8.88	8	9.69
95	Senegal	3	0.2	3	0.19	13	0.75	8	0.44	8	0.45
96	Finland	9	1.57	9	1.57	8	1.48	7	1.27	7	1.2
97	Lithuania	7	2.34	7	2.44	6	2.31	7	2.41	7	2.36
98	North Macedonia	7	3.47	8	4.46	8	4.52	7	4.05	7	4.07
99	Slovenia	4	2.02	4	2.06	6	2.88	6	2.72	7	3.2
100	Kazakhstan	6	0.31	7	0.34	7	0.34	8	0.38	6	0.31
101	Laos	7	0.95	7	0.98	8	1.01	9	1.16	6	0.77
102	Maldives	2	5.07	3	4.98	5	9.99	6	12.18	6	11.26
103	New Zealand	4	0.86	4	0.83	3	0.68	5	0.98	6	1.07
104	Rwanda	7	0.58	7	0.54	6	0.48	7	0.48	6	0.43
105	Armenia	3	1.12	4	1.28	4	1.34	5	1.61	5	1.63
106	Congo	5	0.85	5	0.86	5	0.81	5	0.8	5	0.78
107	Djibouti	4	3.51	4	3.3	4	3.42	5	4.18	5	3.92
108	Moldova	4	1.66	5	2	5	1.93	5	1.93	5	1.99
109	Mozambique	3	0.11	3	0.1	3	0.1	3	0.09	5	0.14
110	Guinea-Bissau	4	2.1	4	2.01	4	1.96	4	1.94	4	1.9
111	Latvia	4	2.01	4	2.22	4	2.24	4	2.25	4	2.1
112	Madagascar	4	0.15	4	0.14	4	0.14	4	0.13	4	0.13
113	Montenegro	4	6.93	3	5.58	4	6.3	4	6.29	4	6.14
114	Cambodia	3	0.16	3	0.16	3	0.16	3	0.16	3	0.16
115	Cyprus	5	4.06	6	4.26	5	3.61	4	2.89	3	2.46
116	Estonia	3	2.04	3	2	3	2	3	2	3	1.92
117	Ethiopia	6	0.06	6	0.05	2	0.01	1	0.01	3	0.02
118	Georgia	4	1.17	4	0.97	5	1.38	5	1.23	3	0.88
119	Kyrgyzstan	1	0.15	1	0.17	2	0.29	2	0.3	3	0.44
120	Trinidad and Tobago	2	1.67	2	1.67	2	1.65	2	1.65	3	1.73
121	Barbados	1	2	2	6.24	2	5.93	2	6.35	2	7.25
122	Fiji	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.27	2	2.14	2	2.21
123	Haiti	7	0.59	7	0.58	6	0.49	3	0.26	2	0.16
124	Ivory Coast	0	0.01	0	0.01	1	0.02	1	0.05	2	0.07
125	Luxembourg	2	2.87	2	3.02	2	2.7	2	2.6	2	2.63
126	Macau	2	2.43	1	1.94	1	1.93	1	2.09	2	2.35
127	Myanmar	0	0	4	0.07	0	0	2	0.03	2	0.03
128	Tajikistan	4	0.41	4	0.42	4	0.35	3	0.27	2	0.17
129	Tonga	2	19.5	2	19.59	2	19.55	2	19.57	2	19.67
130	Afghanistan	1	0.02	2	0.05	1	0.03	1	0.01	1	0.03
131	Angola	1	0.04	1	0.02	1	0.02	1	0.02	1	0.03
132	Antigua and Barbuda	0	5.1	0	2.43	0	5.28	1	5.48	1	6.09
133	Cape Verde	1	1.35	1	1.06	1	0.99	1	1.21	1	1.3
134	French Polynesia	0	1.15	0	0.1	0	0.13	1	2.12	1	1.91
135	Iceland	1	2.43	1	2.02	1	1.93	1	2.13	1	2
136	Malta	1	2.06	1	1.83	1	1.61	1	2.34	1	2.74
137	Mauritania	-	-	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	1	0.14
138	New Caledonia	1	3.01	1	3.19	1	3.17	1	3.79	1	2.85
139	Nicaragua	1	0.09	1	0.15	1	0.1	1	0.17	1	0.12
140	Nigeria	1	0	1	0.01	1	0.01	1	0	1	0
141	Vanuatu	0	0	0	0.04	0	0.08	1	2.98	1	2.91
142	Belize	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.07	0	0.46
143	Bhutan	-	-	0	0.18	0	0.53	0	0.53	0	0.57
144	Botswana	1	0.56	1	0.23	1	0.34	0	0.17	0	0.18
145	Burkina Faso	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.02
146	Cameroon	0	0	0	0	4	0.15	0	0.01	0	0
147	Comoros	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.05	0	0.08
148	Eswatini	0	0.03	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
149	Gabon	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0.07	0	0.04	0	0.03
150	Gambia	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0
151	Grenada	1	11.79	0	2.96	0	2.75	0	3	0	3.79
152	Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0
153	Kiribati	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0
154	Lesotho	0	0.03	0	0.09	0	0.08	0	0.06	0	0.06
155	Liberia	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
156	Marshall Islands	0	0.53	0	0.65	0	0.66	0	0.64	0	0.83
157	Micronesia	0	0	0	0	-	-	0	0.01	0	0
158	Mongolia	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.08	0	0.08	0	0.04
159	Nauru	0	0.43	0	0.34	0	0.73	0	0.52	0	0.88
160	Papua New Guinea	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.04
161	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1	11.93	0	0.04	0	0.02	0	0.06	0	0
162	Saint Lucia	0	1.75	0	1.81	0	1.68	0	1.69	0	1.5
163	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1	9.22	1	7.75	1	8.23	0	1.65	0	1.36
164	Samoa	0	0.02	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
165	Sao Tome and Principe	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.02	0	0.02
166	Seychelles	0	1.29	0	1.03	0	0.51	0	0.72	0	1.17
167	Sierra Leone	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
168	Solomon Islands	0	0	0	0.29	0	0	0	0	0	0
169	Suriname	0	0.37	0	0.33	0	0.33	0	0.35	0	0.3
170	Timor-Leste	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.03
171	Turkmenistan	0	0	0	0.02	0	0.05	0	0.03	0	0.01
172	Tuvalu	0	0.01	0	0.09	0	0.2	0	0.03	0	0.02
173	Zambia	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.02
174	Cuba	4	0.39	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Lemons and Limes Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

In 2023, the United States had the largest listed lemons and limes food supply among the 173 reporters with reported values, at 5,800 thousand tonnes. India ranked second at 3,076 thousand tonnes, while Mexico ranked third at 2,244 thousand tonnes. The Bahamas had the highest per-capita lemons and limes food supply at 80.08 kilograms per person per year. These FAO Food Balances figures represent food available for human consumption, not a direct measurement of lemons and limes 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 Lemons, Limes and products 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 174 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 22,461 thousand tonnes is the sum of the 173 reporters with a reported 2023 value; it excludes aggregate rows and reporters without a 2023 value.