Olives (Including Preserved) Consumption by Country

FAO Food Balances data record 5,094 thousand tonnes of listed olives food supply in 2023 across 153 reporters with reported values. The United States accounts for 510 thousand tonnes of that total, ahead of Brazil at 434 thousand tonnes and Saudi Arabia at 354 thousand tonnes. Greece records the highest per-capita food supply at 34.17 kilograms per person per year. The series spans 2019 through 2023, although some reporters have missing values in individual years.

The United States leads the 2023 ranking at 510 thousand tonnes, only 1.18 times Brazil at 434 thousand tonnes. Greece tops the per-capita ranking at 34.17 kilograms per person per year, ahead of Saudi Arabia at 10.63 kilograms.

Olives Food Supply at a Glance

• The United States had the largest listed olives food supply in 2023 at 510 thousand tonnes.
• Brazil ranked second at 434 thousand tonnes, followed by Saudi Arabia at 354 thousand tonnes.
• Greece had the highest per-capita food supply at 34.17 kilograms per person per year.
• The 2023 listed total was 5,094 thousand tonnes across 153 reporters with reported values.
• Among 153 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, listed olives food supply decreased by 82 thousand tonnes, or 1.6 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 olives food supply at 510 thousand tonnes, with Brazil second at 434 thousand tonnes and Saudi Arabia third at 354 thousand tonnes. Greece followed at 350 thousand tonnes and Algeria at 334 thousand tonnes. Greece's 34.17 kilograms per person per year lead the per-capita ranking, followed by Saudi Arabia at 10.63 kilograms.

Between 2022 and 2023, listed supply across the 153 reporters with data in both years fell from 6,303 thousand tonnes to 5,094 thousand tonnes, a decline of 1,209 thousand tonnes (19.2 percent), as Türkiye fell 969 thousand tonnes from an exceptional 1,173 thousand tonnes in 2022. Since 2019, the common-reporter total has eased 1.6 percent, with offsetting moves in Egypt, Algeria, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye. These figures represent food available for human consumption in the FAO Food Balances and should not be interpreted as the amount of olives actually eaten.

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#	Country	2023 (thousand tonnes)2023	2023 (kg per person per year)2023
1	United States US	510	1.49
2	Brazil BR	434	2.06
3	Saudi Arabia SA	354	10.63
4	Greece GR	350	34.17
5	Algeria DZ	334	7.23
6	France FR	316	4.75
7	Egypt EG	278	2.42
8	Italy IT	265	4.46
9	Türkiye TR	204	2.34
10	Russia RU	181	1.24
11	United Kingdom GB	155	2.25
12	Peru PE	139	4.11
13	Romania RO	133	6.93
14	Morocco MA	100	2.65
15	Portugal PT	97	9.29
16	Germany DE	76	0.9
17	Libya LY	75	10.22
18	Tunisia TN	64	5.24
19	Australia AU	58	2.2
20	Belgium BE	58	4.91
21	Iran IR	58	0.64
22	Iraq IQ	56	1.45
23	Syria SY	55	2.33
24	Bulgaria BG	45	6.56
25	Netherlands NL	39	2.14
26	Sweden SE	37	3.5
27	Jordan JO	36	3.15
28	Czech Republic CZ	32	2.96
29	Lebanon LB	32	5.63
30	Canada CA	30	0.77
31	Chile CL	29	1.46
32	Albania AL	28	10.1
33	Argentina AR	28	0.6
34	Switzerland CH	26	2.93
35	Mexico MX	25	0.19
36	Spain ES	24	0.49
37	Austria AT	23	2.54
38	Poland PL	23	0.58
39	Hungary HU	18	1.91
40	Ireland IE	16	3.04
41	Denmark DK	15	2.44
42	Israel IL	15	1.64
43	North Macedonia MK	15	8.17
44	Kuwait KW	14	2.87
45	United Arab Emirates AE	14	1.3
46	Armenia AM	11	3.82
47	Finland FI	11	1.88
48	Kazakhstan KZ	11	0.52
49	Ukraine UA	11	0.3
50	Norway NO	10	1.73
51	Croatia HR	8	2.03
52	Latvia LV	7	3.52
53	Lithuania LT	7	2.32
54	Slovakia SK	7	1.18
55	South Korea KR	7	0.13
56	Venezuela VE	7	0.24
57	New Zealand NZ	6	1.2
58	Belarus BY	5	0.51
59	Malta MT	5	9.24
60	India IN	4	0
61	Slovenia SI	4	1.82
62	Taiwan TW	4	0.15
63	Luxembourg LU	3	5.18
64	Montenegro ME	3	4.07
65	Uruguay UY	3	0.79
66	Azerbaijan AZ	2	0.22
67	China CN	2	0
68	Cyprus CY	2	1.14
69	El Salvador SV	2	0.31
70	Estonia EE	2	1.36
71	Georgia GE	2	0.6
72	Moldova MD	2	0.96
73	Oman OM	2	0.45
74	Panama PA	2	0.56
75	Qatar QA	2	0.72
76	Serbia RS	2	0.34
77	South Africa ZA	2	0.03
78	Angola AO	1	0.02
79	Bahrain BH	1	0.85
80	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	1	0.42
81	Colombia CO	1	0.02
82	Costa Rica CR	1	0.12
83	Dominican Republic DO	1	0.05
84	Ecuador EC	1	0.06
85	Guatemala GT	1	0.03
86	Honduras HN	1	0.1
87	Hong Kong HK	1	0.14
88	Iceland IS	1	2.16
89	Malaysia MY	1	0.04
90	Maldives MV	1	1.4
91	Namibia NA	1	0.18
92	Pakistan PK	1	0.01
93	Paraguay PY	1	0.18
94	Philippines PH	1	0.01
95	Senegal SN	1	0.05
96	Thailand TH	1	0.01
97	Uzbekistan UZ	1	0.03
98	Vietnam VN	1	0.01
99	Yemen YE	1	0.02
100	Afghanistan AF	0	0.01
101	Antigua and Barbuda AG	0	0.36
102	Bahamas BS	0	0.33
103	Barbados BB	0	0.18
104	Belize BZ	0	0
105	Bhutan BT	0	0
106	Bolivia BO	0	0.02
107	Botswana BW	0	0.12
108	Burkina Faso BF	0	0
109	Cambodia KH	0	0.01
110	Cameroon CM	0	0
111	Cape Verde CV	0	0.44
112	Comoros KM	0	0
113	Congo CG	0	0.01
114	Djibouti DJ	0	0.03
115	Eswatini SZ	0	0.01
116	Fiji FJ	0	0.06
117	French Polynesia PF	0	0.44
118	Gabon GA	0	0.05
119	Gambia GM	0	0.01
120	Grenada GD	0	0.21
121	Guinea-Bissau GW	0	0
122	Guyana GY	0	0.03
123	Ivory Coast CI	0	0.01
124	Jamaica JM	0	0.04
125	Kyrgyzstan KG	0	0.03
126	Laos LA	0	0.02
127	Lesotho LS	0	0.01
128	Macau MO	0	0.05
129	Madagascar MG	0	0
130	Marshall Islands MH	0	0.55
131	Mauritania MR	0	0.04
132	Mauritius MU	0	0.17
133	Mongolia MN	0	0.02
134	Mozambique MZ	0	0.01
135	Nauru NR	0	0.01
136	New Caledonia NC	0	0.11
137	Nicaragua NI	0	0.03
138	Niger NE	0	0
139	Rwanda RW	0	0.01
140	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	0	0.01
141	Saint Lucia LC	0	0.01
142	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	0	0
143	Samoa WS	0	0.01
144	Sao Tome and Principe ST	0	0.17
145	Seychelles SC	0	0.62
146	Sri Lanka LK	0	0.01
147	Suriname SR	0	0.04
148	Tajikistan TJ	0	0
149	Timor-Leste TL	0	0.01
150	Tonga TO	0	0
151	Trinidad and Tobago TT	0	0.07
152	Turkmenistan TM	0	0.06
153	Vanuatu VU	0	0.01

Olives Consumption by Country in 2023

The United States holds 510 thousand tonnes, or 10.0 percent of the 5,094-thousand-tonne listed total. Brazil follows at 434 thousand tonnes (8.5 percent) and Saudi Arabia at 354 thousand tonnes (6.9 percent), with Greece fourth at 350 thousand tonnes and Algeria fifth at 334 thousand tonnes.

The top three reporters account for 25.5 percent of the listed total, while the top five account for 38.9 percent and the top ten account for 63.3 percent. No reporter accounts for even one-tenth of the listed total, with the United States representing 10.0 percent.

Türkiye Falls 969 Thousand Tonnes as Supply Drops 19.2 Percent Between 2022 and 2023

Among the 153 reporters with data in both 2022 and 2023, the listed food supply decreased from 6,303 thousand tonnes to 5,094 thousand tonnes, a decline of 1,209 thousand tonnes (19.2 percent). The 2022 and 2023 listed totals come from the same 153 reporters, with no reporter entering or leaving the comparison. Türkiye fell 969 thousand tonnes (down 82.6 percent), accounting for 80.2 percent of the net decline, while Spain fell 111 thousand tonnes (down 82.2 percent), Egypt fell 84 thousand tonnes (down 23.2 percent), Saudi Arabia fell 58 thousand tonnes (down 14.1 percent), the United States fell 51 thousand tonnes (down 9.1 percent) and France fell 36 thousand tonnes (down 10.2 percent). Algeria added 88 thousand tonnes (up 35.8 percent) and Italy added 77 thousand tonnes (up 41.0 percent).

Offsetting Moves Leave Supply Down 1.6 Percent Since 2019

For the 153 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, the listed food supply eased from 5,176 thousand tonnes to 5,094 thousand tonnes, a decline of 82 thousand tonnes (1.6 percent). The 2019 total includes 154 reporters with reported values, while the 2023 total includes 153; Cuba, with 1 thousand tonnes in 2019, had no reported 2023 value. Egypt fell 387 thousand tonnes (down 58.2 percent), Russia fell 109 thousand tonnes (down 37.6 percent), Türkiye fell 92 thousand tonnes (down 31.1 percent) and Spain fell 81 thousand tonnes (down 77.1 percent), while Algeria added 158 thousand tonnes (up 89.8 percent), Saudi Arabia added 93 thousand tonnes (up 35.6 percent), Morocco added 83 thousand tonnes (up 488.2 percent) and Italy added 68 thousand tonnes (up 34.5 percent).

The five-year comparison shows a much smaller net change because large increases and decreases offset one another: Türkiye recorded 1,173 thousand tonnes in 2022 against 296 in 2019 and 204 in 2023, so its single-year crash dominates the short window while barely registering in the five-year net. Per capita, Greece had the highest per-capita food supply at 34.17 kilograms per person per year, followed by Saudi Arabia at 10.63 kilograms, while the United States, first by total, records 1.49 kilograms.

What Does Olives Consumption Measure?

For FAO Food Balances, the olives figure used here covers olives including preserved olives 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 olives people actually consumed. Olives pressed for oil are recorded elsewhere and 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.

Olives (Including Preserved) Consumption by Country

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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	555	1.64	438	1.29	507	1.49	561	1.64	510	1.49
2	Brazil	393	1.89	475	2.28	396	1.89	429	2.04	434	2.06
3	Saudi Arabia	261	8.57	219	7.08	202	6.45	412	12.8	354	10.63
4	Greece	325	30.32	338	31.54	350	33.08	338	32.41	350	34.17
5	Algeria	176	4.06	235	5.35	213	4.77	246	5.41	334	7.23
6	France	317	4.82	314	4.77	336	5.09	352	5.31	316	4.75
7	Egypt	665	6.18	822	7.52	824	7.43	362	3.22	278	2.42
8	Italy	197	3.28	193	3.21	247	4.13	188	3.16	265	4.46
9	Türkiye	296	3.47	2	0.02	438	5.06	1.17K	13.47	204	2.34
10	Russia	290	1.98	391	2.67	382	2.62	199	1.36	181	1.24
11	United Kingdom	146	2.17	144	2.14	103	1.52	163	2.38	155	2.25
12	Peru	97	3	71	2.16	47	1.42	131	3.92	139	4.11
13	Romania	81	4.14	108	5.56	131	6.83	136	7.09	133	6.93
14	Morocco	17	0.47	19	0.53	4	0.11	110	2.95	100	2.65
15	Portugal	35	3.4	80	7.71	67	6.48	68	6.48	97	9.29
16	Germany	77	0.92	75	0.89	74	0.88	71	0.84	76	0.9
17	Libya	89	12.76	86	12.15	92	12.89	91	12.56	75	10.22
18	Tunisia	29	2.41	29	2.38	27	2.24	65	5.32	64	5.24
19	Australia	60	2.35	61	2.38	63	2.44	68	2.6	58	2.2
20	Belgium	54	4.72	45	3.92	69	5.97	63	5.41	58	4.91
21	Iran	56	0.65	51	0.58	40	0.45	59	0.66	58	0.64
22	Iraq	54	1.54	58	1.61	58	1.58	59	1.57	56	1.45
23	Syria	101	4.98	109	5.16	59	2.71	79	3.51	55	2.33
24	Bulgaria	46	6.6	46	6.66	47	6.81	45	6.52	45	6.56
25	Netherlands	37	2.1	57	3.23	52	2.96	43	2.4	39	2.14
26	Sweden	37	3.64	34	3.31	34	3.27	37	3.49	37	3.5
27	Jordan	38	3.56	31	2.87	30	2.69	31	2.72	36	3.15
28	Czech Republic	27	2.51	29	2.72	27	2.57	31	2.88	32	2.96
29	Lebanon	20	3.45	22	3.79	51	8.95	38	6.66	32	5.63
30	Canada	30	0.79	32	0.83	32	0.83	32	0.83	30	0.77
31	Chile	48	2.48	29	1.49	36	1.85	30	1.54	29	1.46
32	Albania	23	8	28	9.83	38	13.16	29	10.08	28	10.1
33	Argentina	27	0.6	28	0.63	37	0.81	25	0.54	28	0.6
34	Switzerland	25	2.9	26	2.99	25	2.86	26	2.93	26	2.93
35	Mexico	30	0.24	31	0.25	39	0.31	34	0.26	25	0.19
36	Spain	105	2.22	114	2.38	184	3.85	135	2.82	24	0.49
37	Austria	20	2.3	19	2.1	18	1.96	19	2.15	23	2.54
38	Poland	15	0.39	18	0.46	27	0.7	21	0.56	23	0.58
39	Hungary	13	1.35	16	1.63	18	1.83	17	1.8	18	1.91
40	Ireland	18	3.65	18	3.52	15	2.96	14	2.77	16	3.04
41	Denmark	14	2.34	13	2.2	14	2.43	14	2.29	15	2.44
42	Israel	16	1.87	18	1.99	18	1.97	20	2.18	15	1.64
43	North Macedonia	14	7.46	12	6.17	11	5.85	12	6.39	15	8.17
44	Kuwait	18	3.94	16	3.7	14	3.15	15	3.33	14	2.87
45	United Arab Emirates	8	0.86	18	1.88	16	1.64	17	1.63	14	1.3
46	Armenia	11	3.79	7	2.36	4	1.5	12	4.18	11	3.82
47	Finland	11	1.99	10	1.75	10	1.78	12	2.08	11	1.88
48	Kazakhstan	9	0.47	9	0.47	10	0.53	11	0.55	11	0.52
49	Ukraine	12	0.27	13	0.29	15	0.33	10	0.25	11	0.3
50	Norway	9	1.75	9	1.64	9	1.73	9	1.74	10	1.73
51	Croatia	12	3.12	9	2.24	5	1.34	11	2.85	8	2.03
52	Latvia	10	4.99	10	5.09	10	5.1	7	3.57	7	3.52
53	Lithuania	6	2.27	7	2.41	6	2.19	5	1.67	7	2.32
54	Slovakia	7	1.26	7	1.24	8	1.52	7	1.33	7	1.18
55	South Korea	5	0.09	7	0.13	8	0.15	9	0.17	7	0.13
56	Venezuela	1	0.03	3	0.11	3	0.11	8	0.3	7	0.24
57	New Zealand	7	1.33	6	1.25	6	1.24	6	1.22	6	1.2
58	Belarus	1	0.11	0	0.03	0	0	8	0.91	5	0.51
59	Malta	4	8.39	4	7.09	4	7.57	4	8.14	5	9.24
60	India	3	0	2	0	4	0	5	0	4	0
61	Slovenia	4	1.95	4	1.7	4	1.82	4	1.82	4	1.82
62	Taiwan	3	0.14	3	0.13	3	0.13	3	0.15	4	0.15
63	Luxembourg	2	2.82	2	3.63	3	3.94	3	4.05	3	5.18
64	Montenegro	2	2.74	1	2.14	2	3.06	2	3.95	3	4.07
65	Uruguay	3	0.76	2	0.7	3	0.79	2	0.59	3	0.79
66	Azerbaijan	1	0.1	1	0.09	1	0.1	2	0.15	2	0.22
67	China	2	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	2	0
68	Cyprus	2	1.38	1	1.02	2	1.3	2	1.23	2	1.14
69	El Salvador	1	0.2	1	0.16	2	0.24	2	0.39	2	0.31
70	Estonia	2	1.25	2	1.32	2	1.51	2	1.65	2	1.36
71	Georgia	2	0.44	1	0.37	1	0.32	2	0.56	2	0.6
72	Moldova	2	0.93	2	0.81	3	1.12	2	0.95	2	0.96
73	Oman	4	0.85	4	0.99	4	0.89	4	0.78	2	0.45
74	Panama	4	0.9	4	0.93	4	0.92	3	0.75	2	0.56
75	Qatar	3	0.92	3	0.93	2	0.81	3	1	2	0.72
76	Serbia	2	0.27	2	0.32	2	0.35	2	0.36	2	0.34
77	South Africa	4	0.07	4	0.06	3	0.05	3	0.05	2	0.03
78	Angola	0	0	1	0.02	1	0.03	1	0.04	1	0.02
79	Bahrain	2	1.11	2	1.18	2	1.05	2	1.05	1	0.85
80	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1	0.39	1	0.44	1	0.45	1	0.32	1	0.42
81	Colombia	1	0.02	1	0.03	2	0.03	2	0.04	1	0.02
82	Costa Rica	1	0.12	1	0.11	1	0.12	1	0.14	1	0.12
83	Dominican Republic	1	0.07	1	0.07	1	0.07	1	0.05	1	0.05
84	Ecuador	1	0.05	1	0.04	1	0.05	1	0.07	1	0.06
85	Guatemala	1	0.03	0	0.03	1	0.04	1	0.04	1	0.03
86	Honduras	1	0.14	1	0.1	1	0.14	1	0.1	1	0.1
87	Hong Kong	1	0.18	1	0.11	1	0.11	1	0.11	1	0.14
88	Iceland	1	2.75	1	2.6	1	2.56	1	2.49	1	2.16
89	Malaysia	3	0.08	2	0.07	2	0.06	2	0.06	1	0.04
90	Maldives	1	2.62	0	0.8	1	1.71	1	1.43	1	1.4
91	Namibia	1	0.25	0	0.15	0	0.16	1	0.18	1	0.18
92	Pakistan	1	0.01	1	0.01	1	0.01	1	0.01	1	0.01
93	Paraguay	1	0.15	1	0.18	1	0.17	1	0.14	1	0.18
94	Philippines	1	0.01	1	0.01	1	0.01	1	0.01	1	0.01
95	Senegal	1	0.04	1	0.04	1	0.04	1	0.06	1	0.05
96	Thailand	1	0.01	1	0.01	0	0.01	1	0.01	1	0.01
97	Uzbekistan	0	0.01	1	0.02	1	0.02	1	0.02	1	0.03
98	Vietnam	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	1	0.01
99	Yemen	1	0.02	2	0.07	3	0.08	4	0.1	1	0.02
100	Afghanistan	3	0.08	3	0.07	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01
101	Antigua and Barbuda	0	0.28	0	0.02	0	0.28	0	0.3	0	0.36
102	Bahamas	0	0.03	0	0.05	0	0.01	0	0.18	0	0.33
103	Barbados	0	0.2	0	0.12	0	0.14	0	0.2	0	0.18
104	Belize	0	0.1	0	0.07	0	0.11	0	0.11	0	0
105	Bhutan	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0
106	Bolivia	0	0.02	0	0.04	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.02
107	Botswana	0	0.04	0	0.1	0	0.12	0	0.13	0	0.12
108	Burkina Faso	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
109	Cambodia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
110	Cameroon	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
111	Cape Verde	0	0.5	0	0.48	0	0.35	0	0.52	0	0.44
112	Comoros	0	0.06	0	0.1	0	0.04	0	0	0	0
113	Congo	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01
114	Djibouti	0	0.03	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.03
115	Eswatini	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.01
116	Fiji	0	0.04	0	0.03	0	0.02	0	0.06	0	0.06
117	French Polynesia	0	0.13	0	0.42	0	0.43	0	0.58	0	0.44
118	Gabon	0	0.02	0	0.05	0	0.04	0	0.06	0	0.05
119	Gambia	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.01
120	Grenada	0	0.03	0	0.13	0	0.08	0	0.17	0	0.21
121	Guinea-Bissau	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0
122	Guyana	0	0.11	0	0.07	0	0.03	0	0.04	0	0.03
123	Ivory Coast	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
124	Jamaica	0	0.04	0	0.02	0	0.04	0	0.04	0	0.04
125	Kyrgyzstan	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.03
126	Laos	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.02
127	Lesotho	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
128	Macau	0	0.13	0	0.05	0	0.05	0	0.04	0	0.05
129	Madagascar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
130	Marshall Islands	0	0.2	0	0.25	0	0.31	0	0.39	0	0.55
131	Mauritania	0	0.04	0	0.03	0	0.05	0	0.06	0	0.04
132	Mauritius	0	0.18	0	0.15	0	0.15	0	0.26	0	0.17
133	Mongolia	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.02
134	Mozambique	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
135	Nauru	0	0.04	0	0.04	0	0.03	0	0	0	0.01
136	New Caledonia	0	0.12	0	0.15	0	0.18	0	0.12	0	0.11
137	Nicaragua	0	0.04	0	0.03	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.03
138	Niger	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0
139	Rwanda	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
140	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0.05	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
141	Saint Lucia	0	0.12	0	0.1	0	0.04	0	0.09	0	0.01
142	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0	0.03	0	0	0	0.04	0	0	0	0
143	Samoa	0	0.1	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.01	0	0.01
144	Sao Tome and Principe	0	0.27	0	0.2	0	0.4	0	0.37	0	0.17
145	Seychelles	0	1.03	0	0.56	0	0.85	0	0.58	0	0.62
146	Sri Lanka	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
147	Suriname	0	0.06	0	0.09	0	0.07	0	0.04	0	0.04
148	Tajikistan	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0
149	Timor-Leste	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
150	Tonga	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
151	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0.09	0	0.1	0	0.11	0	0.14	0	0.07
152	Turkmenistan	0	0.06	0	0.04	1	0.09	1	0.09	0	0.06
153	Vanuatu	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01
154	Cuba	1	0.13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Olives Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

In 2023, the United States had the largest listed olives food supply among the 153 reporters with reported values, at 510 thousand tonnes. Brazil ranked second at 434 thousand tonnes, while Saudi Arabia ranked third at 354 thousand tonnes. Greece had the highest per-capita olives food supply at 34.17 kilograms per person per year. These FAO Food Balances figures represent food available for human consumption, not a direct measurement of olives 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 Olives including preserved 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 quantity actually eaten, as additional losses or waste may occur after food reaches the consumer.

The reporter universe for this item contains 154 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 5,094 thousand tonnes is the sum of the 153 reporters with a reported 2023 value; it excludes aggregate rows and reporters without a 2023 value.