Sesameseed Oil Consumption by Country

In 2023, China had the largest listed sesameseed oil food supply among 113 reporters, at 268 thousand tonnes, while Lebanon had the highest per-capita figure at 1.35 kilograms per person per year. The 2023 listed total was 662 thousand tonnes, with India second at 58 thousand tonnes and Türkiye third at 40 thousand tonnes. The series spans 2019 through 2023, although some reporters have missing values in individual years.

China leads the 2023 ranking at 268 thousand tonnes, 4.62 times India at 58 thousand tonnes. Lebanon tops the per-capita ranking at 1.35 kilograms per person per year from 8 thousand tonnes, ahead of Jordan at 0.71 kilograms.

Sesameseed Oil Food Supply at a Glance

• China had the largest listed sesameseed oil food supply in 2023 at 268 thousand tonnes.
• India ranked second at 58 thousand tonnes, followed by Türkiye at 40 thousand tonnes.
• Lebanon had the highest per-capita food supply at 1.35 kilograms per person per year.
• The 2023 listed total was 662 thousand tonnes across 113 reporters with reported values.
• Among 110 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, listed sesameseed oil food supply decreased by 21 thousand tonnes, or 3.1 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, China led listed sesameseed oil food supply at 268 thousand tonnes, with India second at 58 thousand tonnes and Türkiye third at 40 thousand tonnes. Nigeria followed at 37 thousand tonnes and Myanmar at 34 thousand tonnes. Lebanon's 1.35 kilograms per person per year lead the per-capita ranking, followed by Jordan at 0.71 kilograms.

Between 2022 and 2023, listed supply across the 113 reporters with data in both years rose from 650 thousand tonnes to 662 thousand tonnes, a gain of 12 thousand tonnes (1.8 percent), as Nigeria rebounded 21 thousand tonnes from 16 thousand tonnes in 2022. Since 2019, the common-reporter total has eased 3.1 percent, with India's 17-thousand-tonne decline partly offset by Mexico's 16-thousand-tonne gain. These figures represent food available for human consumption in the FAO Food Balances and should not be interpreted as the amount of sesameseed oil actually eaten.

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#	Country	2023 (thousand tonnes)2023	2023 (kg per person per year)2023
1	China CN	268	0.19
2	India IN	58	0.04
3	Türkiye TR	40	0.46
4	Nigeria NG	37	0.16
5	Myanmar MM	34	0.64
6	Uganda UG	32	0.66
7	Mexico MX	24	0.18
8	Saudi Arabia SA	22	0.68
9	Mozambique MZ	16	0.47
10	South Korea KR	15	0.28
11	Taiwan TW	11	0.47
12	Iran IR	9	0.1
13	Jordan JO	8	0.71
14	Lebanon LB	8	1.35
15	France FR	7	0.1
16	Yemen YE	6	0.16
17	Australia AU	5	0.18
18	Greece GR	5	0.47
19	Tanzania TZ	5	0.07
20	Thailand TH	5	0.07
21	Venezuela VE	5	0.19
22	Vietnam VN	4	0.04
23	Bangladesh BD	3	0.02
24	Italy IT	3	0.06
25	Kazakhstan KZ	3	0.14
26	Malaysia MY	3	0.08
27	Poland PL	3	0.06
28	Syria SY	3	0.13
29	United Kingdom GB	3	0.05
30	Hong Kong HK	2	0.21
31	Iraq IQ	2	0.04
32	Philippines PH	2	0.02
33	Afghanistan AF	1	0.02
34	Colombia CO	1	0.02
35	Denmark DK	1	0.11
36	Guatemala GT	1	0.08
37	Indonesia ID	1	0
38	Pakistan PK	1	0
39	Peru PE	1	0.03
40	Spain ES	1	0.02
41	Sri Lanka LK	1	0.03
42	Switzerland CH	1	0.07
43	United Arab Emirates AE	1	0.05
44	Antigua and Barbuda AG	0	0.09
45	Armenia AM	0	0
46	Austria AT	0	0.02
47	Bahamas BS	0	0.07
48	Bahrain BH	0	0.06
49	Barbados BB	0	0.03
50	Belize BZ	0	0.03
51	Bhutan BT	0	0.01
52	Botswana BW	0	0
53	Brazil BR	0	0
54	Burkina Faso BF	0	0.02
55	Cambodia KH	0	0.01
56	Cape Verde CV	0	0
57	Chile CL	0	0
58	Comoros KM	0	0
59	Costa Rica CR	0	0.05
60	Croatia HR	0	0.01
61	Cyprus CY	0	0.02
62	Dominican Republic DO	0	0
63	El Salvador SV	0	0.01
64	Estonia EE	0	0
65	Eswatini SZ	0	0.03
66	Fiji FJ	0	0.01
67	Finland FI	0	0.02
68	French Polynesia PF	0	0.03
69	Grenada GD	0	0.03
70	Guyana GY	0	0.01
71	Honduras HN	0	0.04
72	Hungary HU	0	0.01
73	Iceland IS	0	0.04
74	Ireland IE	0	0.05
75	Israel IL	0	0.02
76	Kiribati KI	0	0
77	Kuwait KW	0	0.09
78	Kyrgyzstan KG	0	0.01
79	Laos LA	0	0
80	Lesotho LS	0	0
81	Lithuania LT	0	0.01
82	Luxembourg LU	0	0.11
83	Macau MO	0	0.3
84	Maldives MV	0	0.05
85	Malta MT	0	0.04
86	Marshall Islands MH	0	0.17
87	Mauritius MU	0	0.02
88	Mongolia MN	0	0.01
89	Namibia NA	0	0
90	Nauru NR	0	0.01
91	New Zealand NZ	0	0.09
92	North Macedonia MK	0	0.21
93	Norway NO	0	0.01
94	Oman OM	0	0.02
95	Panama PA	0	0.02
96	Papua New Guinea PG	0	0
97	Portugal PT	0	0.03
98	Qatar QA	0	0.05
99	Russia RU	0	0
100	Saint Lucia LC	0	0
101	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	0	0
102	Samoa WS	0	0.01
103	Seychelles SC	0	0.16
104	Slovenia SI	0	0.04
105	South Africa ZA	0	0.01
106	Suriname SR	0	0.02
107	Sweden SE	0	0.02
108	Timor-Leste TL	0	0
109	Tonga TO	0	0.01
110	Trinidad and Tobago TT	0	0.04
111	Tunisia TN	0	0.02
112	Tuvalu TV	0	0.32
113	Vanuatu VU	0	0

Sesameseed Oil Consumption by Country in 2023

China holds 268 thousand tonnes, or 40.5 percent of the 662-thousand-tonne listed total. India follows at 58 thousand tonnes (8.8 percent) and Türkiye at 40 thousand tonnes (6.0 percent), with Nigeria fourth at 37 thousand tonnes and Myanmar fifth at 34 thousand tonnes.

The top three reporters account for 55.3 percent of the listed total, while the top five account for 66.0 percent and the top ten account for 82.5 percent. China remained relatively stable over the period, at 261 thousand tonnes in 2021, 271 thousand tonnes in 2022 and 268 thousand tonnes in 2023.

Nigeria Rebounds 21 Thousand Tonnes as Supply Edges Up 1.8 Percent Between 2022 and 2023

Among the 113 reporters with data in both 2022 and 2023, the listed food supply increased from 650 thousand tonnes to 662 thousand tonnes, a gain of 12 thousand tonnes (1.8 percent). The 2022 and 2023 listed totals come from the same 113 reporters, with no reporter entering or leaving the comparison. Nigeria added 21 thousand tonnes (up 131.2 percent), Myanmar added 4 thousand tonnes (up 13.3 percent), Saudi Arabia added 4 thousand tonnes (up 22.2 percent) and Tanzania added 4 thousand tonnes (up 400.0 percent), while Iran fell 12 thousand tonnes (down 57.1 percent), Mozambique fell 6 thousand tonnes (down 27.3 percent), Venezuela fell 4 thousand tonnes (down 44.4 percent) and China fell 3 thousand tonnes (down 1.1 percent).

India Falls 17 Thousand Tonnes as Supply Edges Down 3.1 Percent Since 2019

For the 110 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, the listed food supply eased from 683 thousand tonnes to 662 thousand tonnes, a decline of 21 thousand tonnes (3.1 percent). The 2019 total includes 110 reporters with reported values, while the 2023 total includes 113; Laos, Luxembourg and Nauru have no reported 2019 value but show a reported zero in 2023. India fell 17 thousand tonnes (down 22.7 percent), Tanzania fell 15 thousand tonnes (down 75.0 percent), Nigeria fell 9 thousand tonnes (down 19.6 percent), South Korea fell 9 thousand tonnes (down 37.5 percent) and Myanmar fell 4 thousand tonnes (down 10.5 percent), while Mexico added 16 thousand tonnes (up 200.0 percent), Mozambique added 10 thousand tonnes (up 166.7 percent) and Lebanon added 6 thousand tonnes (up 300.0 percent).

The two comparison periods point in different directions: the common-reporter total rose by 12 thousand tonnes from 2022 to 2023, but remained 21 thousand tonnes below its 2019 level in the five-year comparison. Nigeria's path runs 46 to 16 to 37 thousand tonnes across 2019, 2022 and 2023. Per capita, Lebanon's 1.35 kilograms from 8 thousand tonnes lead Jordan at 0.71 kilograms, while China, first by total, records 0.19 kilograms.

What Does Sesameseed Oil Consumption Measure?

For FAO Food Balances, the sesameseed oil figure used here covers sesameseed oil 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 sesameseed oil people actually consumed. Sesame seed used for other purposes sits 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	China	268	0.19	278	0.2	261	0.18	271	0.19	268	0.19
2	India	75	0.05	66	0.05	69	0.05	56	0.04	58	0.04
3	Türkiye	38	0.45	48	0.55	44	0.51	40	0.46	40	0.46
4	Nigeria	46	0.22	33	0.15	27	0.13	16	0.07	37	0.16
5	Myanmar	38	0.72	38	0.72	32	0.6	30	0.56	34	0.64
6	Uganda	33	0.77	33	0.73	32	0.7	32	0.68	32	0.66
7	Mexico	8	0.07	22	0.17	19	0.15	22	0.17	24	0.18
8	Saudi Arabia	24	0.79	22	0.72	20	0.65	18	0.56	22	0.68
9	Mozambique	6	0.19	24	0.79	16	0.51	22	0.68	16	0.47
10	South Korea	24	0.46	23	0.44	22	0.43	18	0.35	15	0.28
11	Taiwan	10	0.44	13	0.56	14	0.61	13	0.57	11	0.47
12	Iran	11	0.13	16	0.18	22	0.25	21	0.23	9	0.1
13	Jordan	7	0.62	7	0.61	7	0.61	7	0.64	8	0.71
14	Lebanon	2	0.3	3	0.53	7	1.14	8	1.34	8	1.35
15	France	7	0.11	8	0.12	7	0.11	6	0.09	7	0.1
16	Yemen	6	0.18	6	0.17	5	0.14	6	0.16	6	0.16
17	Australia	5	0.2	5	0.21	5	0.19	4	0.17	5	0.18
18	Greece	4	0.38	4	0.38	5	0.49	5	0.47	5	0.47
19	Tanzania	20	0.35	17	0.27	20	0.31	1	0.01	5	0.07
20	Thailand	5	0.07	5	0.07	5	0.07	5	0.07	5	0.07
21	Venezuela	6	0.22	10	0.36	9	0.31	9	0.32	5	0.19
22	Vietnam	3	0.03	3	0.03	2	0.02	4	0.04	4	0.04
23	Bangladesh	4	0.02	4	0.02	4	0.02	4	0.02	3	0.02
24	Italy	3	0.05	3	0.06	4	0.07	3	0.05	3	0.06
25	Kazakhstan	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.14
26	Malaysia	4	0.12	3	0.09	4	0.1	3	0.09	3	0.08
27	Poland	0	0.01	2	0.06	3	0.08	2	0.06	3	0.06
28	Syria	3	0.13	3	0.13	3	0.15	3	0.13	3	0.13
29	United Kingdom	3	0.04	3	0.05	3	0.05	2	0.04	3	0.05
30	Hong Kong	2	0.2	2	0.21	2	0.21	2	0.23	2	0.21
31	Iraq	4	0.11	1	0.02	1	0.03	1	0.03	2	0.04
32	Philippines	2	0.02	2	0.02	2	0.02	2	0.02	2	0.02
33	Afghanistan	1	0.03	2	0.06	0	0.01	2	0.06	1	0.02
34	Colombia	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	2	0.03	1	0.02
35	Denmark	1	0.13	1	0.15	1	0.1	1	0.1	1	0.11
36	Guatemala	2	0.14	2	0.1	2	0.09	1	0.03	1	0.08
37	Indonesia	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0
38	Pakistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
39	Peru	1	0.03	1	0.02	1	0.03	2	0.05	1	0.03
40	Spain	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01	1	0.01	1	0.02
41	Sri Lanka	1	0.02	1	0.04	1	0.04	0	0.01	1	0.03
42	Switzerland	0	0.06	0	0.05	1	0.07	1	0.08	1	0.07
43	United Arab Emirates	1	0.08	1	0.09	1	0.14	0	0.04	1	0.05
44	Antigua and Barbuda	0	0.07	0	0.02	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0.09
45	Armenia	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0
46	Austria	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.02
47	Bahamas	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.07	0	0.07
48	Bahrain	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0.06
49	Barbados	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.04	0	0.03
50	Belize	0	0.07	0	0.05	0	0.06	0	0.08	0	0.03
51	Bhutan	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.01
52	Botswana	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.04	0	0	0	0
53	Brazil	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
54	Burkina Faso	1	0.04	1	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.02
55	Cambodia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
56	Cape Verde	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
57	Chile	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0
58	Comoros	0	0.03	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
59	Costa Rica	0	0.07	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0.07	0	0.05
60	Croatia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
61	Cyprus	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.02
62	Dominican Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
63	El Salvador	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
64	Estonia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
65	Eswatini	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.03
66	Fiji	0	0	0	0.03	0	0.04	0	0.01	0	0.01
67	Finland	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.02
68	French Polynesia	0	0.02	0	0.14	0	0.28	0	0.21	0	0.03
69	Grenada	0	0	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.04	0	0.03
70	Guyana	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
71	Honduras	0	0.04	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.04
72	Hungary	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
73	Iceland	0	0.04	0	0.03	0	0.04	0	0.04	0	0.04
74	Ireland	0	0.09	0	0.07	0	0.04	0	0.04	0	0.05
75	Israel	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.02
76	Kiribati	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0
77	Kuwait	0	0.03	0	0.04	0	0.03	0	0.06	0	0.09
78	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01
79	Laos	-	-	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
80	Lesotho	0	0	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0	0	0
81	Lithuania	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
82	Luxembourg	-	-	0	0.08	0	0.11	0	0.1	0	0.11
83	Macau	0	0.28	0	0.27	0	0.29	0	0.3	0	0.3
84	Maldives	0	0.1	0	0.01	0	0.05	0	0.05	0	0.05
85	Malta	0	0.02	0	0.04	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.04
86	Marshall Islands	0	0.04	0	0.08	0	0.13	0	0.06	0	0.17
87	Mauritius	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02
88	Mongolia	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.01
89	Namibia	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.03	0	0	0	0
90	Nauru	-	-	0	0.01	0	0.35	0	0.64	0	0.01
91	New Zealand	0	0.09	1	0.11	1	0.12	0	0.09	0	0.09
92	North Macedonia	0	0.21	0	0.22	0	0.25	0	0.19	0	0.21
93	Norway	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
94	Oman	0	0.03	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.02	0	0.02
95	Panama	0	0.03	0	0.06	0	0.05	0	0.03	0	0.02
96	Papua New Guinea	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
97	Portugal	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.04	0	0.02	0	0.03
98	Qatar	1	0.18	1	0.19	0	0.05	0	0.06	0	0.05
99	Russia	1	0	0	0	1	0.01	1	0	0	0
100	Saint Lucia	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
101	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0	0.02	0	0	0	0.02	0	0	0	0
102	Samoa	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.02	0	0	0	0.01
103	Seychelles	0	0.35	0	0.21	0	0.24	0	0.3	0	0.16
104	Slovenia	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.04	0	0.04
105	South Africa	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	1	0.01	0	0.01
106	Suriname	0	0	0	0.02	0	0.05	0	0.03	0	0.02
107	Sweden	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.03	0	0.02
108	Timor-Leste	0	0	0	0	0	0.19	0	0	0	0
109	Tonga	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
110	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0.03	0	0.16	0	0.16	0	0.13	0	0.04
111	Tunisia	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.02
112	Tuvalu	0	0.03	-	-	0	0.21	0	0.1	0	0.32
113	Vanuatu	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0

Sesameseed Oil Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

In 2023, China had the largest listed sesameseed oil food supply among the 113 reporters with reported values, at 268 thousand tonnes. India ranked second at 58 thousand tonnes, while Türkiye ranked third at 40 thousand tonnes. Lebanon had the highest per-capita sesameseed oil food supply at 1.35 kilograms per person per year. These FAO Food Balances figures represent food available for human consumption, not a direct measurement of sesameseed oil 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 Sesameseed oil 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.

The reporter universe for this item contains 113 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 662 thousand tonnes is the sum of the 113 reporters with a reported 2023 value; it excludes aggregate rows and reporters without a 2023 value.