Onions Consumption by Country

In 2023, India had the largest listed onions food supply among 168 reporters, at 25,136 thousand tonnes, while Tajikistan had the highest per-capita figure at 56.83 kilograms per person per year. The 2023 listed total was 96,140 thousand tonnes, with China second at 20,973 thousand tonnes and the United States third at 3,305 thousand tonnes. The series spans 2019 through 2023, although some reporters have missing values in individual years.

India leads the 2023 ranking at 25,136 thousand tonnes, 1.20 times China at 20,973 thousand tonnes. Tajikistan tops the per-capita ranking at 56.83 kilograms per person per year from 590 thousand tonnes, ahead of Niger at 49.55 kilograms.

Onions Food Supply at a Glance

• India had the largest listed onions food supply in 2023 at 25,136 thousand tonnes.
• China ranked second at 20,973 thousand tonnes, followed by the United States at 3,305 thousand tonnes.
• Tajikistan had the highest per-capita food supply at 56.83 kilograms per person per year.
• The 2023 listed total was 96,140 thousand tonnes across 168 reporters with reported values.
• Among 168 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, listed onions food supply increased by 10,930 thousand tonnes, or 12.8 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 led listed onions food supply at 25,136 thousand tonnes, with China second at 20,973 thousand tonnes and the United States third at 3,305 thousand tonnes. Bangladesh followed at 3,194 thousand tonnes and Egypt at 2,958 thousand tonnes. Tajikistan's 56.83 kilograms per person per year lead the per-capita ranking, followed by Niger at 49.55 kilograms.

Between 2022 and 2023, listed supply across the 168 reporters with data in both years eased from 96,800 thousand tonnes to 96,140 thousand tonnes, a decline of 660 thousand tonnes (0.7 percent), as India's 1,740-thousand-tonne fall outweighed gains in Türkiye, Iran, Egypt, Mexico and Bangladesh. Since 2019, the common-reporter total has grown 12.8 percent, with India contributing 51.4 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 onions actually eaten.

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#	Country	2023 (thousand tonnes)2023	2023 (kg per person per year)2023
1	India IN	25.14K	17.48
2	China CN	20.97K	14.74
3	United States US	3.31K	9.62
4	Bangladesh BD	3.19K	18.63
5	Egypt EG	2.96K	25.82
6	Indonesia ID	2.12K	7.53
7	Iran IR	1.88K	20.72
8	Pakistan PK	1.85K	7.49
9	Türkiye TR	1.83K	21
10	Russia RU	1.83K	12.58
11	Algeria DZ	1.66K	35.98
12	Nigeria NG	1.54K	6.76
13	Brazil BR	1.5K	7.12
14	Niger NE	1.3K	49.55
15	South Korea KR	1.2K	23.09
16	Mexico MX	1.18K	9.12
17	Ukraine UA	942	24.96
18	Uzbekistan UZ	922	25.87
19	Spain ES	895	18.69
20	Kazakhstan KZ	875	43.02
21	Myanmar MM	859	15.86
22	Germany DE	840	9.93
23	France FR	642	9.66
24	Vietnam VN	630	6.28
25	United Kingdom GB	602	8.76
26	Poland PL	592	15.27
27	Tajikistan TJ	590	56.83
28	Colombia CO	574	10.98
29	Morocco MA	569	15.08
30	Senegal SN	563	31.15
31	Malaysia MY	539	15.35
32	South Africa ZA	508	8.03
33	Argentina AR	507	11.14
34	Saudi Arabia SA	471	14.16
35	Italy IT	422	7.09
36	Canada CA	413	10.51
37	Chile CL	378	19.21
38	Zimbabwe ZW	356	21.82
39	Sri Lanka LK	350	15.22
40	Cameroon CM	329	11.6
41	Uganda UG	328	6.74
42	Mozambique MZ	308	9.16
43	Philippines PH	294	2.56
44	Ethiopia ET	291	2.26
45	Afghanistan AF	287	6.92
46	Malawi MW	277	13.13
47	Azerbaijan AZ	268	25.95
48	Tanzania TZ	266	3.99
49	Belarus BY	227	24.93
50	Peru PE	220	6.5
51	Kyrgyzstan KG	212	29.91
52	Romania RO	210	10.97
53	Australia AU	198	7.5
54	Venezuela VE	179	6.31
55	Libya LY	177	24.23
56	Tunisia TN	173	14.16
57	Guatemala GT	163	9.02
58	Ghana GH	155	4.58
59	Kenya KE	146	2.64
60	Bolivia BO	137	11.2
61	United Arab Emirates AE	137	12.91
62	Iraq IQ	136	3.52
63	Nepal NP	134	4.52
64	Jordan JO	128	11.19
65	Yemen YE	125	3.18
66	Portugal PT	121	11.61
67	Taiwan TW	121	5.17
68	Greece GR	119	11.65
69	Thailand TH	119	1.66
70	Dominican Republic DO	116	10.27
71	Czech Republic CZ	115	10.67
72	Israel IL	115	12.41
73	Albania AL	110	39.28
74	Oman OM	107	21.19
75	Kuwait KW	100	20.71
76	Sweden SE	90	8.51
77	Turkmenistan TM	89	12.14
78	Netherlands NL	73	4.04
79	Austria AT	71	7.73
80	Guinea GN	69	4.77
81	Hungary HU	68	7
82	DR Congo CD	62	0.59
83	Mauritania MR	60	11.94
84	Qatar QA	58	19.44
85	Lebanon LB	57	9.88
86	North Macedonia MK	56	30.79
87	Syria SY	52	2.22
88	Denmark DK	50	8.35
89	Bulgaria BG	49	7.28
90	Moldova MD	49	19.11
91	Switzerland CH	48	5.44
92	Nicaragua NI	47	6.86
93	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	43	13.37
94	Costa Rica CR	43	8.42
95	Ireland IE	43	8.22
96	Mongolia MN	41	11.97
97	Croatia HR	40	10.26
98	El Salvador SV	40	6.28
99	Finland FI	40	7.19
100	Georgia GE	38	9.96
101	Zambia ZM	37	1.8
102	Rwanda RW	33	2.34
103	Armenia AM	30	10.06
104	Bahrain BH	30	18.8
105	Panama PA	30	6.69
106	Paraguay PY	29	4.19
107	Slovakia SK	28	5.05
108	Uruguay UY	27	7.96
109	Djibouti DJ	23	19.81
110	Mauritius MU	21	16.17
111	Guyana GY	20	24.02
112	Namibia NA	19	6.36
113	Haiti HT	18	1.55
114	Lithuania LT	18	6.41
115	Slovenia SI	18	8.45
116	Sierra Leone SL	17	2.04
117	Latvia LV	15	7.98
118	Maldives MV	14	26.54
119	Jamaica JM	13	4.73
120	Belgium BE	12	1.02
121	Congo CG	12	1.89
122	Honduras HN	12	1.16
123	Serbia RS	11	1.58
124	Angola AO	10	0.27
125	Estonia EE	10	7.22
126	Ecuador EC	9	0.5
127	Fiji FJ	8	8.45
128	Malta MT	8	15.41
129	Norway NO	7	1.29
130	Botswana BW	6	2.58
131	Madagascar MG	6	0.18
132	Cape Verde CV	5	9.91
133	Eswatini SZ	5	4.46
134	Gabon GA	5	2
135	Montenegro ME	5	8.33
136	Bhutan BT	4	5.26
137	Cyprus CY	4	2.99
138	Guinea-Bissau GW	4	1.77
139	Luxembourg LU	4	6.7
140	Macau MO	4	5.37
141	Suriname SR	4	7.03
142	Bahamas BS	3	7.94
143	Barbados BB	3	9.51
144	Comoros KM	3	3.03
145	Hong Kong HK	3	0.34
146	Iceland IS	2	5.35
147	Papua New Guinea PG	2	0.17
148	Seychelles SC	2	12.48
149	Antigua and Barbuda AG	1	6.73
150	Belize BZ	1	3.24
151	Grenada GD	1	5.33
152	Laos LA	1	0.1
153	Saint Lucia LC	1	5.46
154	Samoa WS	1	6.66
155	Sao Tome and Principe ST	1	3.48
156	Cambodia KH	0	0.01
157	French Polynesia PF	0	1.67
158	Kiribati KI	0	0.49
159	Marshall Islands MH	0	0.52
160	Nauru NR	0	7.17
161	New Caledonia NC	0	0.43
162	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	0	4.4
163	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	0	3.56
164	Solomon Islands SB	0	0.56
165	Timor-Leste TL	0	0
166	Tonga TO	0	1
167	Tuvalu TV	0	1.96
168	Vanuatu VU	0	0.41

Onions Consumption by Country in 2023

India holds 25,136 thousand tonnes, or 26.1 percent of the 96,140-thousand-tonne listed total. China follows at 20,973 thousand tonnes (21.8 percent) and the United States at 3,305 thousand tonnes (3.4 percent), with Bangladesh fourth at 3,194 thousand tonnes and Egypt fifth at 2,958 thousand tonnes.

The top three reporters account for 51.4 percent of the listed total, while the top five account for 57.8 percent and the top ten account for 67.7 percent. The gap between second and third exceeds the entire listed total of every reporter below fourth place.

India Falls 1,740 Thousand Tonnes as Supply Edges Down 0.7 Percent Between 2022 and 2023

Among the 168 reporters with data in both 2022 and 2023, the listed food supply decreased from 96,800 thousand tonnes to 96,140 thousand tonnes, a decline of 660 thousand tonnes (0.7 percent). The 2022 and 2023 listed totals come from the same 168 reporters, with no reporter entering or leaving the comparison. India fell 1,740 thousand tonnes (down 6.5 percent), Pakistan fell 363 thousand tonnes (down 16.4 percent) and China fell 216 thousand tonnes (down 1.0 percent), while Türkiye added 294 thousand tonnes (up 19.1 percent), Iran added 265 thousand tonnes (up 16.4 percent), Egypt added 248 thousand tonnes (up 9.2 percent), Mexico added 193 thousand tonnes (up 19.5 percent) and Bangladesh added 192 thousand tonnes (up 6.4 percent).

India Adds 5,617 Thousand Tonnes as Supply Grows 12.8 Percent Since 2019

For the 168 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, the listed food supply rose from 85,210 thousand tonnes to 96,140 thousand tonnes, a gain of 10,930 thousand tonnes (12.8 percent). The 2019 total includes 169 reporters with reported values, while the 2023 total includes 168; Cuba, with 72 thousand tonnes in 2019, had no reported 2023 value. India added 5,617 thousand tonnes (up 28.8 percent), Bangladesh added 1,281 thousand tonnes (up 67.0 percent), China added 872 thousand tonnes (up 4.3 percent), Egypt added 624 thousand tonnes (up 26.7 percent), Indonesia added 565 thousand tonnes (up 36.4 percent), Iran added 305 thousand tonnes (up 19.4 percent), Nigeria added 283 thousand tonnes (up 22.5 percent) and Vietnam added 269 thousand tonnes (up 74.5 percent).

India's two windows point in opposite directions: down 1,740 thousand tonnes on the year, up 5,617 thousand tonnes over five years, contributing 51.4 percent of the long increase. Bangladesh's 1,281-thousand-tonne gain is the next-largest. Per capita, Tajikistan's 56.83 kilograms from 590 thousand tonnes lead Niger at 49.55 kilograms, while India, first by total, records 17.48 kilograms.

What Does Onions Consumption Measure?

For FAO Food Balances, the onions figure used here covers onions 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 onions people actually consumed. Quantities allocated to other uses are accounted for separately in the food balance.

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	19.52K	14.05	22.53K	16.06	22.98K	16.25	26.88K	18.86	25.14K	17.48
2	China	20.1K	14.12	20.64K	14.47	21.11K	14.8	21.19K	14.87	20.97K	14.74
3	United States	3.39K	10.05	3.23K	9.52	3.12K	9.17	3.24K	9.47	3.31K	9.62
4	Bangladesh	1.91K	11.6	2.46K	14.77	2.64K	15.74	3K	17.72	3.19K	18.63
5	Egypt	2.33K	21.7	2.56K	23.41	2.83K	25.52	2.71K	24.06	2.96K	25.82
6	Indonesia	1.55K	5.7	1.92K	7	2.09K	7.56	2.13K	7.65	2.12K	7.53
7	Iran	1.57K	18.06	1.7K	19.38	1.67K	18.87	1.61K	18	1.88K	20.72
8	Pakistan	1.83K	7.91	1.8K	7.66	1.79K	7.46	2.22K	9.1	1.85K	7.49
9	Türkiye	1.58K	18.45	1.51K	17.57	1.6K	18.46	1.54K	17.67	1.83K	21
10	Russia	1.76K	12	1.86K	12.73	1.63K	11.18	1.75K	12.05	1.83K	12.58
11	Algeria	1.48K	34.15	1.53K	34.65	1.57K	34.99	1.61K	35.45	1.66K	35.98
12	Nigeria	1.26K	6.01	1.28K	5.96	1.4K	6.4	1.46K	6.53	1.54K	6.76
13	Brazil	1.43K	6.89	1.37K	6.57	1.5K	7.16	1.52K	7.24	1.5K	7.12
14	Niger	1.09K	47.62	1.1K	46.41	1.1K	44.67	1.29K	51.13	1.3K	49.55
15	South Korea	1.44K	27.78	1.1K	21.14	1.48K	28.51	1.17K	22.53	1.2K	23.09
16	Mexico	1.14K	9.07	1.03K	8.16	918	7.19	991	7.7	1.18K	9.12
17	Ukraine	1.05K	23.33	1.03K	22.96	1.01K	22.69	895	21.8	942	24.96
18	Uzbekistan	872	26.46	937	27.89	936	27.34	917	26.25	922	25.87
19	Spain	942	19.86	883	18.51	1.05K	21.89	856	17.91	895	18.69
20	Kazakhstan	666	34.65	812	41.69	831	42.1	801	39.96	875	43.02
21	Myanmar	926	17.6	970	18.3	882	16.52	901	16.77	859	15.86
22	Germany	744	8.9	728	8.7	829	9.9	703	8.36	840	9.93
23	France	627	9.54	601	9.12	787	11.9	632	9.54	642	9.66
24	Vietnam	361	3.72	355	3.62	348	3.51	593	5.94	630	6.28
25	United Kingdom	637	9.5	622	9.23	597	8.82	586	8.6	602	8.76
26	Poland	533	13.95	591	15.47	557	14.65	599	15.59	592	15.27
27	Tajikistan	505	53.01	573	58.78	496	49.77	583	57.21	590	56.83
28	Colombia	692	13.86	541	10.68	534	10.43	580	11.22	574	10.98
29	Morocco	807	22.27	760	20.77	782	21.15	731	19.58	569	15.08
30	Senegal	550	33.64	546	32.5	545	31.64	529	29.97	563	31.15
31	Malaysia	490	14.65	462	13.62	468	13.66	505	14.55	539	15.35
32	South Africa	524	8.79	551	9.09	551	8.96	504	8.09	508	8.03
33	Argentina	448	9.95	478	10.58	445	9.82	516	11.37	507	11.14
34	Saudi Arabia	364	11.95	560	18.09	565	18.03	523	16.25	471	14.16
35	Italy	492	8.18	463	7.72	421	7.05	413	6.93	422	7.09
36	Canada	373	9.88	359	9.4	404	10.5	404	10.42	413	10.51
37	Chile	325	16.94	341	17.62	379	19.47	357	18.28	378	19.21
38	Zimbabwe	178	11.67	182	11.69	220	13.95	290	18.06	356	21.82
39	Sri Lanka	325	14.5	368	16.31	379	16.67	335	14.68	350	15.22
40	Cameroon	281	11	309	11.78	321	11.94	350	12.65	329	11.6
41	Uganda	301	6.99	314	7.06	334	7.27	312	6.6	328	6.74
42	Mozambique	346	11.56	263	8.53	441	13.89	463	14.18	308	9.16
43	Philippines	225	2.03	282	2.51	296	2.62	247	2.17	294	2.56
44	Ethiopia	306	2.64	354	2.98	176	1.44	248	1.98	291	2.26
45	Afghanistan	198	5.24	238	6.1	336	8.41	253	6.24	287	6.92
46	Malawi	156	8.22	170	8.69	180	8.97	256	12.46	277	13.13
47	Azerbaijan	226	22.31	251	24.61	264	25.76	243	23.6	268	25.95
48	Tanzania	165	2.79	163	2.67	154	2.44	402	6.21	266	3.99
49	Belarus	187	19.87	208	22.26	215	23.25	228	24.82	227	24.93
50	Peru	320	9.86	285	8.67	242	7.3	165	4.92	220	6.5
51	Kyrgyzstan	182	28.06	212	31.74	202	29.58	215	30.98	212	29.91
52	Romania	285	14.62	289	14.9	284	14.77	209	10.92	210	10.97
53	Australia	227	8.92	222	8.62	223	8.61	252	9.62	198	7.5
54	Venezuela	159	5.5	153	5.37	155	5.49	160	5.66	179	6.31
55	Libya	198	28.52	179	25.47	186	26.04	185	25.55	177	24.23
56	Tunisia	174	14.65	177	14.79	179	14.84	174	14.39	173	14.16
57	Guatemala	124	7.26	131	7.55	133	7.53	160	8.99	163	9.02
58	Ghana	211	6.75	216	6.76	257	7.89	195	5.89	155	4.58
59	Kenya	99	1.93	181	3.46	151	2.84	145	2.68	146	2.64
60	Bolivia	86	7.34	115	9.7	138	11.6	135	11.15	137	11.2
61	United Arab Emirates	140	14.9	263	27.87	268	27.42	179	17.49	137	12.91
62	Iraq	205	5.81	292	8.08	314	8.49	122	3.22	136	3.52
63	Nepal	141	4.96	57	1.98	113	3.82	174	5.85	134	4.52
64	Jordan	49	4.59	72	6.6	77	6.94	102	9.11	128	11.19
65	Yemen	140	3.99	134	3.71	62	1.67	118	3.08	125	3.18
66	Portugal	115	11.14	132	12.69	126	12.13	124	11.9	121	11.61
67	Taiwan	135	5.72	140	5.93	122	5.17	120	5.11	121	5.17
68	Greece	148	13.85	171	15.99	132	12.44	112	10.74	119	11.65
69	Thailand	140	1.96	119	1.67	74	1.03	77	1.07	119	1.66
70	Dominican Republic	74	6.78	82	7.44	79	7.13	94	8.36	116	10.27
71	Czech Republic	101	9.61	107	10.14	107	10.18	102	9.53	115	10.67
72	Israel	112	12.96	111	12.62	103	11.56	111	12.14	115	12.41
73	Albania	101	35.05	96	33.41	99	34.61	100	35.29	110	39.28
74	Oman	104	22.66	102	22.61	95	21.08	85	17.97	107	21.19
75	Kuwait	103	23.15	118	26.91	95	21.69	101	21.94	100	20.71
76	Sweden	76	7.41	88	8.48	82	7.9	88	8.37	90	8.51
77	Turkmenistan	100	14.72	99	14.29	99	14.02	83	11.52	89	12.14
78	Netherlands	182	10.37	5	0.27	132	7.47	0	0	73	4.04
79	Austria	94	10.58	84	9.47	93	10.37	83	9.18	71	7.73
80	Guinea	57	4.4	72	5.4	81	5.92	91	6.45	69	4.77
81	Hungary	63	6.45	74	7.59	68	7	64	6.61	68	7
82	DR Congo	62	0.66	65	0.67	65	0.66	69	0.68	62	0.59
83	Mauritania	36	8.16	73	15.87	86	18.15	96	19.66	60	11.94
84	Qatar	89	31.71	84	29.86	74	26.46	78	26.91	58	19.44
85	Lebanon	70	12	60	10.5	49	8.49	65	11.35	57	9.88
86	North Macedonia	52	27.55	56	29.69	57	30.54	60	32.35	56	30.79
87	Syria	55	2.68	45	2.15	44	2.05	46	2.04	52	2.22
88	Denmark	39	6.66	41	7.08	55	9.4	48	8.17	50	8.35
89	Bulgaria	52	7.41	43	6.17	42	6.15	41	6.05	49	7.28
90	Moldova	47	17.89	43	16.64	34	13.55	38	15.01	49	19.11
91	Switzerland	47	5.53	51	5.87	44	5.1	60	6.81	48	5.44
92	Nicaragua	43	6.56	39	5.87	43	6.44	41	6.05	47	6.86
93	Bosnia and Herzegovina	48	14.48	50	15.12	43	13.23	32	9.99	43	13.37
94	Costa Rica	25	5.01	33	6.64	41	8.01	41	8.09	43	8.42
95	Ireland	40	8.07	42	8.38	40	7.92	44	8.6	43	8.22
96	Mongolia	27	8.22	34	10.2	38	11.45	35	10.2	41	11.97
97	Croatia	36	9.14	32	8.13	36	9.2	35	8.92	40	10.26
98	El Salvador	37	5.9	43	6.92	45	7.18	40	6.34	40	6.28
99	Finland	44	7.88	38	6.94	41	7.33	53	9.45	40	7.19
100	Georgia	42	11.15	46	12.21	35	9.23	35	9.21	38	9.96
101	Zambia	43	2.3	45	2.36	42	2.13	40	1.98	37	1.8
102	Rwanda	39	3.04	33	2.55	38	2.87	39	2.86	33	2.34
103	Armenia	26	8.99	28	9.55	27	9.34	28	9.68	30	10.06
104	Bahrain	37	24.57	36	24.19	34	22.69	39	25.57	30	18.8
105	Panama	35	8.33	30	6.95	39	8.99	30	6.91	30	6.69
106	Paraguay	30	4.54	29	4.38	29	4.28	29	4.25	29	4.19
107	Slovakia	36	6.69	38	6.89	28	5.11	30	5.51	28	5.05
108	Uruguay	25	7.47	27	7.82	26	7.76	27	7.91	27	7.96
109	Djibouti	14	12.74	12	11.22	14	12.91	22	19.23	23	19.81
110	Mauritius	18	13.79	16	12.4	20	15.25	19	14.57	21	16.17
111	Guyana	7	8.88	8	9.3	7	8.87	19	23.44	20	24.02
112	Namibia	24	9.06	23	8.59	32	11.44	23	7.87	19	6.36
113	Haiti	16	1.43	22	1.94	23	2.02	18	1.6	18	1.55
114	Lithuania	26	9.27	23	8.35	18	6.49	25	8.79	18	6.41
115	Slovenia	17	8.01	18	8.51	16	7.76	14	6.71	18	8.45
116	Sierra Leone	20	2.52	27	3.42	27	3.34	25	3.07	17	2.04
117	Latvia	15	8	19	9.98	14	7.63	14	7.47	15	7.98
118	Maldives	11	23.57	10	20.31	12	22.86	12	23.2	14	26.54
119	Jamaica	11	3.83	11	4.02	12	4.22	12	4.12	13	4.73
120	Belgium	13	1.17	14	1.19	18	1.58	12	1.01	12	1.02
121	Congo	15	2.61	19	3.32	19	3.17	21	3.42	12	1.89
122	Honduras	24	2.46	14	1.34	12	1.19	12	1.19	12	1.16
123	Serbia	11	1.59	13	1.87	17	2.56	5	0.7	11	1.58
124	Angola	20	0.63	11	0.33	7	0.19	5	0.13	10	0.27
125	Estonia	9	6.46	8	6.26	9	6.92	9	6.56	10	7.22
126	Ecuador	0	0	0	0.02	11	0.62	14	0.8	9	0.5
127	Fiji	9	10.32	10	10.43	9	10.35	9	9.98	8	8.45
128	Malta	8	15.08	7	14.05	8	14.72	7	14.18	8	15.41
129	Norway	16	3.05	7	1.32	9	1.67	8	1.46	7	1.29
130	Botswana	13	5.48	14	5.78	15	6.2	4	1.78	6	2.58
131	Madagascar	7	0.24	8	0.27	5	0.17	6	0.2	6	0.18
132	Cape Verde	6	11.41	6	11.88	7	13.58	6	11.84	5	9.91
133	Eswatini	6	5.19	6	5.33	7	5.81	6	4.86	5	4.46
134	Gabon	7	3.05	8	3.5	6	2.32	8	3.3	5	2
135	Montenegro	5	7.77	5	7.93	5	7.88	5	8.1	5	8.33
136	Bhutan	3	4.26	4	5.26	4	5.21	5	6.69	4	5.26
137	Cyprus	4	3.46	4	3.24	5	3.48	4	3.16	4	2.99
138	Guinea-Bissau	4	1.86	6	3.02	6	3.07	6	2.8	4	1.77
139	Luxembourg	3	5.18	4	5.56	3	5.4	4	5.74	4	6.7
140	Macau	7	10.58	4	5.33	3	4.99	3	4.84	4	5.37
141	Suriname	5	8.83	6	9.07	5	8.39	5	7.41	4	7.03
142	Bahamas	3	7.08	2	5.3	2	5.11	3	7.79	3	7.94
143	Barbados	2	8.03	2	8.33	2	7.12	3	10.48	3	9.51
144	Comoros	1	1.26	-	-	0	0	2	2.69	3	3.03
145	Hong Kong	5	0.71	7	0.93	7	0.94	4	0.59	3	0.34
146	Iceland	2	5.32	2	5.16	2	4.45	2	5.13	2	5.35
147	Papua New Guinea	2	0.24	1	0.1	4	0.39	1	0.09	2	0.17
148	Seychelles	2	15.46	2	18.62	2	15.67	2	13.86	2	12.48
149	Antigua and Barbuda	1	6.66	0	5.07	1	5.99	1	5.63	1	6.73
150	Belize	1	3.51	2	4.9	1	2.84	1	2.55	1	3.24
151	Grenada	0	3.62	1	4.66	1	5.29	1	4.85	1	5.33
152	Laos	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.19	1	0.1
153	Saint Lucia	1	6.11	1	6.93	1	4.82	1	5.96	1	5.46
154	Samoa	1	6.25	1	5.9	1	5.7	1	5.3	1	6.66
155	Sao Tome and Principe	1	4.31	1	4.85	1	5.05	1	3.88	1	3.48
156	Cambodia	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01
157	French Polynesia	2	6.29	2	5.41	2	7.01	2	6.06	0	1.67
158	Kiribati	0	0.13	0	1.61	0	2.07	0	0.36	0	0.49
159	Marshall Islands	0	0.33	0	4.05	0	1.02	0	5.51	0	0.52
160	Nauru	0	3.05	0	2.08	0	4.02	0	2.84	0	7.17
161	New Caledonia	0	0.16	0	0	0	0.15	0	0.71	0	0.43
162	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	5.68	0	4.81	0	5.42	0	5.6	0	4.4
163	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0	3.35	0	3.07	1	9.18	0	2.35	0	3.56
164	Solomon Islands	0	0.23	0	0.12	0	0.2	0	0.23	0	0.56
165	Timor-Leste	1	0.75	1	0.7	1	0.83	0	0	0	0
166	Tonga	0	0.06	-	-	0	0.04	0	0	0	1
167	Tuvalu	0	3.34	0	2.37	0	3.93	0	2.68	0	1.96
168	Vanuatu	0	0.15	0	0.01	0	0.1	0	0.15	0	0.41
169	Cuba	72	6.43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Onions Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

In 2023, India had the largest listed onions food supply among the 168 reporters with reported values, at 25,136 thousand tonnes. China ranked second at 20,973 thousand tonnes, while the United States ranked third at 3,305 thousand tonnes. Tajikistan had the highest per-capita onions food supply at 56.83 kilograms per person per year. These FAO Food Balances figures represent food available for human consumption, not a direct measurement of onions 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 Onions 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 169 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 96,140 thousand tonnes is the sum of the 168 reporters with a reported 2023 value; it excludes aggregate rows and reporters without a 2023 value.