FAOSTAT · 2024
Agricultural production in Bangladesh
According to FAOSTAT, Bangladesh produced 66.3 million t of cereals (8th in the world), 8.6 million t of vegetables (19th in the world), 6.2 million t of fruit, 777,844 t of meat and 15.0 million t of milk (13th in the world) in 2024. Its largest crops by volume were rice (60.6 million t), potatoes (10.6 million t) and maize (4.6 million t).
- Products recorded
- 107
- World #1
- 1
- products
- World top 10
- 34
- products
- Year
- 2024
Bangladesh is the world’s largest producer of jute, raw or retted, and ranks second or third for 3 other products.
Among its twelve largest crops, the biggest ten-year change was in maize (+116%), followed by rapeseed (+116%).
Livestock numbers: 25.0 million cattle, 3.9 million sheep and 27.1 million goats.
Totals by group
| Group | Tonnes | World rank | Share | 10-year change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All cereals | 66,347,851 | 8 | 2.12% | +20% |
| All milk | 15,044,000 | 13 | 1.53% | +147% |
| All roots and tubers | 10,903,255 | 20 | 1.15% | +18% |
| All vegetables | 8,565,895 | 19 | 0.72% | +74% |
| All fruit | 6,249,055 | 32 | 0.66% | +45% |
| All sugar crops | 3,152,975 | 51 | 0.14% | −35% |
| All eggs | 1,275,300 | 10 | 1.28% | +175% |
| All meat | 777,844 | 59 | 0.21% | +20% |
| All pulses | 711,401 | 26 | 0.73% | +101% |
| All citrus fruit | 181,825 | 54 | 0.11% | +18% |
All products by volume, 2024
| Product | Tonnes | World rank | Share | 10-year change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rice (paddy) | 60,570,453 | 3 | 7.38% | +17% |
| Cow milk | 13,539,600 | 15 | 1.7% | +147% |
| Potatoes | 10,601,182 | 7 | 2.72% | +18% |
| Maize | 4,592,508 | 27 | 0.38% | +116% |
| Sugar cane | 2,933,694 | 38 | 0.15% | −35% |
| Onions, dry | 2,917,354 | 5 | 2.69% | +110% |
| Mangoes and guavas | 2,100,639 | 7 | 3.38% | +112% |
| Jute, raw or retted | 2,086,101 | 1 | 56.35% | +55% |
| Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. | 1,727,380 | 15 | 0.61% | +27% |
| Other tropical fruits, n.e.c. | 1,234,192 | 7 | 5.16% | +16% |
| Wheat | 1,172,242 | 49 | 0.15% | −10% |
| Goat milk | 1,053,080 | 4 | 5.15% | +147% |
| Hen eggs | 947,600 | 14 | 1.01% | +189% |
| Other fruits, n.e.c. | 900,000 | 12 | 2.29% | +66% |
| Pumpkins and squash | 831,384 | 7 | 2.4% | +96% |
| Bananas | 813,560 | 27 | 0.58% | +5.6% |
| Rapeseed | 637,745 | 17 | 0.73% | +116% |
| Skim milk of cows | 631,601 | 40 | 0.44% | +29% |
| Eggplants | 563,689 | 8 | 0.98% | +31% |
| Green garlic | 527,665 | 4 | 1.78% | +69% |
| Tomatoes | 491,488 | 45 | 0.26% | +37% |
| Cabbages | 450,024 | 22 | 0.6% | +107% |
| Tea leaves | 437,652 | 8 | 1.34% | +58% |
| Cauliflower and broccoli | 429,670 | 6 | 1.6% | +135% |
| Other pulses n.e.c. | 429,231 | 2 | 9.65% | +290% |
| Coconuts, in shell | 400,392 | 15 | 0.61% | +15% |
| Melons | 400,072 | 15 | 1.42% | +37% |
| Buffalo milk | 376,100 | 7 | 0.25% | +147% |
| Areca nuts | 356,029 | 2 | 15.27% | +67% |
| Eggs from other birds in shell, fresh, n.e.c. | 327,700 | 3 | 5.2% | +139% |
| Sweet potatoes | 302,073 | 29 | 0.33% | +16% |
| Other stimulant, spice and aromatic crops, n.e.c. | 301,705 | 3 | 9.11% | +95% |
| Chillies and peppers, dry | 301,311 | 4 | 5.52% | +174% |
| Soya bean oil | 294,100 | 23 | 0.49% | +268% |
| Rapeseed or canola oil, crude | 266,600 | 21 | 0.85% | +197% |
| Goat meat | 243,825 | 5 | 3.15% | +22% |
| Chicken meat | 232,508 | 54 | 0.18% | +29% |
| Other beans, green | 226,331 | 7 | 0.87% | +106% |
| Other sugar crops n.e.c. | 219,281 | 2 | 24.61% | −30% |
| Pineapples | 208,827 | 25 | 0.71% | +5.0% |
| Beef (cattle meat) | 204,685 | 51 | 0.29% | +6.1% |
| Cucumbers | 189,286 | 27 | 0.22% | +244% |
| Lentils, dry | 184,819 | 8 | 2.34% | +18% |
| Plantains | 184,515 | 21 | 0.41% | +28% |
| Papayas | 146,157 | 14 | 1% | +12% |
| Soybeans | 106,833 | 42 | 0.03% | −4.6% |
| Lemons and limes | 106,568 | 23 | 0.46% | +52% |
| Okra | 99,079 | 11 | 0.75% | — |
| Tobacco, unmanufactured | 97,814 | 11 | 1.62% | +15% |
| Tea, packed | 93,208 | 8 | 1.28% | +41% |
| Beans, dry | 83,925 | 44 | 0.28% | +27% |
| Ginger | 83,175 | 7 | 1.7% | +8.0% |
| Raw sugar | 80,548 | 79 | 0.04% | −31% |
| Other berries and fruits of the genus vaccinium n.e.c. | 78,909 | 5 | 7.31% | +179% |
| Groundnuts (peanuts) | 75,364 | 36 | 0.13% | +34% |
| Sheep milk | 75,220 | 24 | 0.77% | +147% |
| Grapefruit and pomelos | 71,303 | 17 | 0.72% | +13% |
| Edible offal of goat, fresh, chilled or frozen | 69,664 | 4 | 4.71% | +22% |
| Raw hides and skins of goats or kids | 69,664 | 4 | 4.57% | +22% |
| Spinach | 66,839 | 14 | 0.22% | +52% |
| Duck meat | 66,165 | 10 | 0.9% | +37% |
| Seed cotton | 63,000 | 32 | 0.09% | +9.4% |
| Carrots and turnips | 45,706 | 66 | 0.1% | — |
| Edible offal of cattle, fresh, chilled or frozen | 40,937 | 40 | 0.42% | +6.1% |
| Cotton seed | 40,900 | 34 | 0.1% | +17% |
| Raw hides and skins of cattle | 34,263 | 36 | 0.39% | +6.1% |
| Molasses | 32,739 | 74 | 0.04% | −45% |
| Ghee from cow milk | 32,200 | 3 | 4.91% | +29% |
| Sesame seed | 29,997 | 25 | 0.45% | −1.5% |
| Coconut oil | 29,300 | 9 | 0.94% | +60% |
| Natural rubber | 23,000 | 22 | 0.16% | +16% |
| Cotton lint | 21,100 | 34 | 0.09% | +0.5% |
| Groundnut oil | 21,042 | 28 | 0.33% | +90% |
| Goat fat, unrendered | 17,914 | 4 | 5.71% | +22% |
| Other meat of mammals, fresh or chilled | 17,240 | 11 | 1.1% | +7.7% |
| Millet | 12,392 | 44 | 0.04% | +74% |
| Coir | 10,279 | 7 | 0.58% | −0.2% |
| Peas, dry | 7,994 | 51 | 0.06% | −46% |
| Buffalo meat | 7,098 | 16 | 0.1% | +6.9% |
| Cattle fat, unrendered | 6,675 | 40 | 0.2% | +6.1% |
| Sheep meat | 6,323 | 81 | 0.05% | +27% |
| Cottonseed oil | 6,066 | 37 | 0.15% | +19% |
| Oil of sesame seed | 5,996 | 25 | 0.5% | +62% |
| Chick peas, dry | 5,048 | 28 | 0.03% | −16% |
| Oranges | 3,954 | 91 | 0.01% | +7.6% |
| Other oil seeds, n.e.c. | 3,895 | 38 | 0.16% | +126% |
| Linseed | 3,420 | 21 | 0.11% | −62% |
| Raw hides and skins of buffaloes | 2,810 | 12 | 0.19% | +6.9% |
| Butter of buffalo milk | 2,691 | 6 | 0.14% | +800% |
| Wool, greasy | 2,528 | 44 | 0.15% | +9.9% |
| Ghee from buffalo milk | 2,157 | 4 | 0.05% | +217% |
| Oil of linseed | 2,000 | 25 | 0.26% | +5.3% |
| Butter of cow milk | 1,488 | 90 | 0.02% | +29% |
| Edible offal of buffalo, fresh, chilled or frozen | 1,479 | 16 | 0.12% | +6.9% |
| Cheese from whole cow milk | 1,305 | 88 | 0.01% | +31% |
| Raw hides and skins of sheep or lambs | 1,224 | 70 | 0.06% | +26% |
| Edible offal of sheep, fresh, chilled or frozen | 1,049 | 71 | 0.05% | +26% |
| Sheep fat, unrendered | 430 | 63 | 0.07% | +27% |
| Buttermilk, dry | 405 | 71 | 0.06% | — |
| Pigeon peas, dry | 384 | 21 | 0.01% | −37% |
| Other fibre crops, raw, n.e.c. | 379 | 18 | 0.06% | −7.3% |
| Strawberries | 359 | 75 | 0% | — |
| Buffalo fat, unrendered | 340 | 15 | 0.08% | +6.9% |
| Castor oil seeds | 278 | 24 | 0.02% | +3.7% |
| Kenaf | 218 | 21 | 0.09% | −71% |
| Barley | 195 | 98 | 0% | −27% |
| Sorghum | 61 | 102 | 0% | −51% |
Live animals, 2024
Source: FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Crops and livestock products. Accessed on 4 November 2026. fao.org/faostat. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Charts, rankings and changes calculated by Husfarm.