Poppy Seed Consumption by Country

Germany reported 3,699 tonnes of poppy seed food supply in 2023, 24.8 percent of the listed total. The United States came second at 3,105 tonnes and Poland third at 1,630. Per person, Latvia led at 1.77 grams. Latvia multiplied ninety-fold in the latest year, while the United States shed 1,493 tonnes. All figures count food available for human consumption, not actual intake.

Germany Holds a Narrow Lead

Germany led at 3,699 tonnes, 1.19 times the United States. Poland sat third at 1,630 tonnes, ahead of Latvia at 1,216 and Canada at 1,048. Serbia followed sixth at 1,046 tonnes, just 2 behind Canada, with Austria seventh at 1,040. The top three held 56.5 percent of the 14,924-tonne total, and the top five 71.7 percent. Of 82 countries in the file, 73 carried a 2023 value.

Latvia's Ninety-Fold Jump

Across the 73 countries in both 2022 and 2023, supply eased 5.7 percent, from 15,833 tonnes, a loss of 909. Latvia added 1,203 tonnes from 13, one of the sharpest percentage rises in the file at 9,140.1 percent. Serbia added 525 tonnes, doubling from 521. The United States shed 1,493 tonnes, down 32.5 percent, the largest fall in the file. Austria shed 399 tonnes and Poland 381, while Germany shed 366. Canada added 227 tonnes back. Chile shed 98 tonnes, down 79.6 percent, the sharpest fall among small tables. Two countries left the table entirely.

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#	Country	2023 (tonnes)2023	2023 (grams per person per day)2023
1	Germany DE	3.7K	0.12
2	United States US	3.11K	0.02
3	Poland PL	1.63K	0.12
4	Latvia LV	1.22K	1.77
5	Canada CA	1.05K	0.07
6	Serbia RS	1.05K	0.42
7	Austria AT	1.04K	0.31
8	United Kingdom GB	444.11	0.02
9	Israel IL	341.43	0.1
10	Slovakia SK	338.29	0.17
11	Romania RO	203.2	0.03
12	Switzerland CH	121.48	0.04
13	Ireland IE	114.52	0.06
14	Slovenia SI	103.07	0.13
15	Uzbekistan UZ	98.02	0.01
16	Kyrgyzstan KG	93.31	0.04
17	Croatia HR	84.9	0.06
18	New Zealand NZ	52.92	0.03
19	North Macedonia MK	45.68	0.07
20	Chile CL	25.13	0
21	Bhutan BT	20.68	0.07
22	Greece GR	14.92	0
23	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	10.95	0.01
24	Portugal PT	8.09	0
25	Colombia CO	3.55	0
26	Guatemala GT	1.84	0
27	Armenia AM	1.82	0
28	Namibia NA	1.77	0
29	Ivory Coast CI	1.3	0
30	Barbados BB	1.05	0.01
31	Senegal SN	1.04	0
32	Seychelles SC	0.91	0.02
33	Djibouti DJ	0.87	0
34	Madagascar MG	0.73	0
35	Hong Kong HK	0.64	0
36	Antigua and Barbuda AG	0.61	0.02
37	Mexico MX	0.52	0
38	Vietnam VN	0.51	0
39	Ghana GH	0.41	0
40	Grenada GD	0.36	0.01
41	Eswatini SZ	0.26	0
42	Fiji FJ	0.26	0
43	Bahamas BS	0.22	0
44	Gabon GA	0.17	0
45	Maldives MV	0.16	0
46	DR Congo CD	0.14	0
47	Azerbaijan AZ	0.12	0
48	Vanuatu VU	0.12	0
49	Nigeria NG	0.11	0
50	Liberia LR	0.08	0
51	Bolivia BO	0.04	0
52	Iraq IQ	0.03	0
53	Laos LA	0.03	0
54	Gambia GM	0.02	0
55	Lesotho LS	0.02	0
56	Indonesia ID	0.01	0
57	Malawi MW	0.01	0
58	Albania AL	0	0
59	Bangladesh BD	0	0
60	Belize BZ	0	0
61	Cameroon CM	0	0
62	Ecuador EC	0	0
63	Guinea GN	0	0
64	Libya LY	0	0
65	Myanmar MM	0	0
66	Niger NE	0	0
67	Oman OM	0	0
68	Samoa WS	0	0
69	Saudi Arabia SA	0	0
70	Sri Lanka LK	0	0
71	Tajikistan TJ	0	0
72	Trinidad and Tobago TT	0	0
73	Turkmenistan TM	0	0

Five Years Drift Down

Among the 62 countries in both 2019 and 2023, supply fell 16.0 percent, from 17,766 tonnes, a loss of 2,842. Germany shed 1,373 tonnes and the United States 1,218, together covering nearly all of the net loss. Latvia added 934 tonnes, more than quadrupling from 282. Austria shed 852 tonnes, down 45.0 percent. Poland added 850 tonnes, doubling from 780. The United Kingdom shed 460 tonnes, down 50.9 percent, and Ireland 223. Eleven countries joined over the period, adding 0.63 tonnes, against seven departures.

Serbia Doubles Sixth

Serbia sat sixth at 1,046 tonnes, doubling from 521 in the latest year, yet 372 below its 2019 level of 1,418. Per person, Serbia sat second at 0.42 grams. Canada, fifth at 1,048 tonnes, added 227 in the latest year and sits at 0.07 grams per person. Austria, seventh at 1,040 tonnes, shed 399 lately and 852 over five.

Latvia Leads Per Person Too

Latvia's 1.77 grams a day topped the per-person table, ahead of Serbia at 0.42 and Austria at 0.31. Germany, the volume leader, sat at 0.12 grams per person, level with Poland. Slovakia and Slovenia followed at 0.17 and 0.13 grams. Canada, fifth by volume, sat at 0.07 grams. Israel sat eighth per person at 0.10 grams with 341 tonnes, and Slovakia closed the volume top ten at 338.

What Poppy Seed Covers

This page follows the SUA item labelled Poppy seed 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.

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#	Country	2019 (t)	2019 (g/cap/d)	2020 (t)	2020 (g/cap/d)	2021 (t)	2021 (g/cap/d)	2022 (t)	2022 (g/cap/d)	2023 (t)	2023 (g/cap/d)
1	Germany	5.07K	0.17	5.81K	0.19	4.93K	0.16	4.07K	0.13	3.7K	0.12
2	United States	4.32K	0.04	3.29K	0.03	3.73K	0.03	4.6K	0.04	3.11K	0.02
3	Poland	780.46	0.06	1.82K	0.13	1.7K	0.12	2.01K	0.14	1.63K	0.12
4	Latvia	282.37	0.4	1.37K	1.98	73.61	0.11	13.16	0.02	1.22K	1.77
5	Canada	1.05K	0.08	854.68	0.06	1.08K	0.08	820.6	0.06	1.05K	0.07
6	Serbia	1.42K	0.56	1.3K	0.52	810.6	0.32	521.04	0.21	1.05K	0.42
7	Austria	1.89K	0.58	2.78K	0.85	2.18K	0.67	1.44K	0.44	1.04K	0.31
8	United Kingdom	903.9	0.04	306.97	0.01	506.69	0.02	401.56	0.02	444.11	0.02
9	Israel	557.48	0.18	416.45	0.13	422.36	0.13	358.41	0.11	341.43	0.1
10	Slovakia	115.29	0.06	492.95	0.25	395.04	0.2	335.54	0.17	338.29	0.17
11	Romania	182.9	0.03	207.96	0.03	227.47	0.03	203.71	0.03	203.2	0.03
12	Switzerland	98.56	0.03	105.61	0.03	105.29	0.03	130.59	0.04	121.48	0.04
13	Ireland	337.57	0.19	160.13	0.09	51.7	0.03	148.6	0.08	114.52	0.06
14	Slovenia	121.59	0.16	86.8	0.11	110.46	0.14	103.11	0.13	103.07	0.13
15	Uzbekistan	74.59	0.01	98.03	0.01	86.74	0.01	56	0	98.02	0.01
16	Kyrgyzstan	16.09	0.01	13.38	0.01	49.47	0.02	169.12	0.07	93.31	0.04
17	Croatia	60.78	0.04	70.34	0.05	94.36	0.07	49.75	0.03	84.9	0.06
18	New Zealand	199.18	0.11	100.83	0.05	156.86	0.08	131.31	0.07	52.92	0.03
19	North Macedonia	62.8	0.09	72.49	0.11	52.26	0.08	41.7	0.06	45.68	0.07
20	Chile	112.79	0.02	112.76	0.02	92.32	0.01	122.98	0.02	25.13	0
21	Bhutan	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	23.58	0.08	20.68	0.07
22	Greece	0	0	17.56	0	26.73	0.01	0	0	14.92	0
23	Bosnia and Herzegovina	40.74	0.03	54.26	0.05	1.58	0	14.12	0.01	10.95	0.01
24	Portugal	9.79	0	7.25	0	6.44	0	8.05	0	8.09	0
25	Colombia	7.96	0	12.08	0	8.5	0	31.01	0	3.55	0
26	Guatemala	0.61	0	1.7	0	2.69	0	0.49	0	1.84	0
27	Armenia	0.84	0	1.34	0	2.73	0	0.13	0	1.82	0
28	Namibia	3.81	0	1.94	0	2.65	0	1.51	0	1.77	0
29	Ivory Coast	0	0	1.23	0	0.92	0	0.74	0	1.3	0
30	Barbados	0.28	0	0.58	0.01	1.24	0.01	0.99	0.01	1.05	0.01
31	Senegal	0	0	0	0	0.51	0	0.46	0	1.04	0
32	Seychelles	0.28	0.01	0.18	0	0.38	0.01	0.59	0.01	0.91	0.02
33	Djibouti	0	0	0	0	-	-	0	0	0.87	0
34	Madagascar	0.15	0	0.38	0	0.6	0	0.23	0	0.73	0
35	Hong Kong	16.69	0.01	15.38	0.01	79.55	0.03	0	0	0.64	0
36	Antigua and Barbuda	0.28	0.01	-	-	0.87	0.03	0.34	0.01	0.61	0.02
37	Mexico	0.53	0	0.57	0	1.34	0	0.05	0	0.52	0
38	Vietnam	-	-	-	-	0	0	1.5	0	0.51	0
39	Ghana	0.41	0	0.03	0	0.13	0	0.1	0	0.41	0
40	Grenada	0.02	0	0.1	0	0.74	0.02	0.2	0	0.36	0.01
41	Eswatini	0.23	0	0.21	0	0.29	0	0.41	0	0.26	0
42	Fiji	0.25	0	1.45	0	0.8	0	0.17	0	0.26	0
43	Bahamas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.07	0	0.22	0
44	Gabon	0	0	-	-	0	0	0.12	0	0.17	0
45	Maldives	0.81	0	3.16	0.02	0.4	0	0.18	0	0.16	0
46	DR Congo	0.09	0	0.07	0	1.22	0	0.24	0	0.14	0
47	Azerbaijan	0.02	0	0.08	0	0.06	0	2.52	0	0.12	0
48	Vanuatu	0.02	0	0.12	0	0.59	0.01	0.07	0	0.12	0
49	Nigeria	0.17	0	0.54	0	0.29	0	0	0	0.11	0
50	Liberia	-	-	0	0	0	0	0.05	0	0.08	0
51	Bolivia	0	0	1.1	0	0.06	0	0.03	0	0.04	0
52	Iraq	0.24	0	0.08	0	0.06	0	0.04	0	0.03	0
53	Laos	-	-	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.03	0
54	Gambia	0.32	0	0	0	-	-	0	0	0.02	0
55	Lesotho	0.02	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0.02	0
56	Indonesia	-	-	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01	0
57	Malawi	0.16	0	0.03	0	0.02	0	0	0	0.01	0
58	Albania	0.3	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	0	0	0
59	Bangladesh	-	-	-	-	-	-	24	0	0	0
60	Belize	0	0	0	0	0.03	0	0.06	0	0	0
61	Cameroon	0.01	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0	0
62	Ecuador	-	-	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
63	Guinea	-	-	0.01	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0
64	Libya	0.01	0	0.09	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0	0
65	Myanmar	0.4	0	-	-	-	-	0	0	0	0
66	Niger	-	-	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0
67	Oman	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.01	0	0	0
68	Samoa	16.82	0.22	0	0	15.76	0.2	0	0	0	0
69	Saudi Arabia	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.01	0	0	0
70	Sri Lanka	0.16	0	-	-	0	0	0	0	0	0
71	Tajikistan	-	-	0	0	38.27	0.01	0.06	0	0	0
72	Trinidad and Tobago	0.25	0	2.69	0	0.49	0	0.88	0	0	0
73	Turkmenistan	0.84	0	0.47	0	2.49	0	0.03	0	0	0
74	Papua New Guinea	0.17	0	0	0	1.92	0	-	-	-	-
75	Philippines	-	-	-	-	1.52	0	-	-	-	-
76	Brazil	0.08	0	0.08	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
77	Burkina Faso	0	0	0.08	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
78	Saint Lucia	0.33	0.01	0.12	0	0.07	0	-	-	-	-
79	Cuba	0.03	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
80	Zimbabwe	-	-	-	-	0.01	0	0.03	0	-	-
81	Sierra Leone	0.01	0	-	-	0	0	0.02	0	-	-
82	Kuwait	4.4	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-

Key Findings

Germany had the largest reported poppy seed food supply in 2023 at 3,699 tonnes, followed by the United States at 3,105 tonnes and Poland at 1,630 tonnes. Latvia ranked first by food supply per person at 1.77 grams per person per day and increased its reported supply from 13 tonnes in 2022 to 1,216 tonnes in 2023. The United States recorded the largest absolute decline, falling by 1,493 tonnes to 3,105 tonnes.

Methodology

For poppy seed, 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. The file holds 82 countries after removing World, regional and aggregate rows; 73 carry 2023 values. The numbers describe food available for human consumption. Source: FAO FAOSTAT, compiled by StatsGeo.