FAOSTAT · 2024
Agricultural production in Ethiopia
According to FAOSTAT, Ethiopia produced 31.8 million t of cereals (20th in the world), 2.8 million t of vegetables, 1.9 million t of fruit, 912,484 t of meat and 3.8 million t of milk in 2024. Its largest crops by volume were maize (11.7 million t), wheat (6.2 million t) and sorghum (4.1 million t).
- Products recorded
- 118
- World #1
- 2
- products
- World top 10
- 38
- products
- Year
- 2024
Ethiopia is the world’s largest producer of vetches, and ranks second or third for 4 other products.
Among its twelve largest crops, the biggest ten-year change was in potatoes (+154%), followed by bananas (+149%).
Livestock numbers: 71.9 million cattle, 37,330 pigs, 41.1 million sheep and 54.0 million goats.
Totals by group
| Group | Tonnes | World rank | Share | 10-year change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All cereals | 31,763,174 | 20 | 1.01% | +31% |
| All roots and tubers | 7,111,250 | 28 | 0.75% | +25% |
| All milk | 3,791,726 | 38 | 0.39% | +5.4% |
| All pulses | 3,161,016 | 8 | 3.26% | +7.1% |
| All vegetables | 2,836,212 | 41 | 0.24% | +36% |
| All fruit | 1,870,560 | 63 | 0.2% | +98% |
| All sugar crops | 997,296 | 76 | 0.04% | −36% |
| All meat | 912,484 | 55 | 0.24% | +24% |
| All citrus fruit | 70,916 | 71 | 0.04% | −17% |
| All tree nuts | 59,409 | 37 | 0.32% | −6.1% |
| All eggs | 48,041 | 86 | 0.05% | +10% |
All products by volume, 2024
| Product | Tonnes | World rank | Share | 10-year change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maize | 11,701,131 | 13 | 0.96% | +51% |
| Wheat | 6,185,341 | 24 | 0.77% | +46% |
| Cereals n.e.c. | 5,798,195 | 1 | 72.31% | +22% |
| Sorghum | 4,100,000 | 6 | 6.38% | −5.5% |
| Potatoes | 4,089,166 | 19 | 1.05% | +154% |
| Cow milk | 3,443,913 | 39 | 0.43% | +3.1% |
| Barley | 2,517,344 | 16 | 1.77% | +22% |
| Taro | 1,791,635 | 4 | 9.84% | +46% |
| Beer | 1,267,000 | 31 | 0.68% | +172% |
| Cabbages | 1,222,178 | 8 | 1.62% | +118% |
| Bananas | 1,190,101 | 23 | 0.85% | +149% |
| Sweet potatoes | 1,185,148 | 10 | 1.3% | −58% |
| Broad beans and horse beans, dry | 1,156,009 | 2 | 18.47% | +16% |
| Millet | 1,125,000 | 6 | 3.65% | +33% |
| Sugar cane | 997,296 | 53 | 0.05% | −36% |
| Beans, dry | 604,791 | 12 | 2% | −8.2% |
| Coffee, green | 575,696 | 5 | 5.1% | +23% |
| Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. | 499,656 | 36 | 0.18% | −6.3% |
| Chick peas, dry | 443,954 | 4 | 2.63% | −3.2% |
| Raw sugar | 440,000 | 43 | 0.23% | +25% |
| Sesame seed | 435,456 | 6 | 6.52% | +37% |
| Beef (cattle meat) | 428,612 | 30 | 0.61% | +13% |
| Peas, dry | 399,813 | 8 | 2.82% | +1.3% |
| Chillies and peppers, green | 397,890 | 13 | 0.89% | +23% |
| Skim milk of cows | 384,509 | 52 | 0.27% | +21% |
| Vetches | 320,718 | 1 | 48.99% | +28% |
| Onions, dry | 299,856 | 45 | 0.28% | −11% |
| Chillies and peppers, dry | 298,080 | 5 | 5.46% | +75% |
| Other stimulant, spice and aromatic crops, n.e.c. | 283,916 | 5 | 8.57% | −5.6% |
| Rice (paddy) | 282,720 | 59 | 0.03% | +115% |
| Other oil seeds, n.e.c. | 270,050 | 3 | 11.14% | +20% |
| Soybeans | 240,000 | 27 | 0.06% | +140% |
| Camel milk | 229,858 | 5 | 5.49% | +38% |
| Green garlic | 215,517 | 9 | 0.73% | +17% |
| Avocados | 201,892 | 9 | 1.8% | +276% |
| Seed cotton | 178,704 | 26 | 0.25% | +38% |
| Goat meat | 149,310 | 7 | 1.93% | +88% |
| Mangoes and guavas | 139,019 | 35 | 0.22% | +47% |
| Sheep meat | 136,081 | 18 | 1.18% | +45% |
| Molasses | 134,454 | 43 | 0.18% | −19% |
| Other fruits, n.e.c. | 131,408 | 37 | 0.34% | +3.1% |
| Other pulses n.e.c. | 130,163 | 8 | 2.93% | +129% |
| Groundnuts (peanuts) | 122,000 | 33 | 0.21% | +18% |
| Lentils, dry | 105,568 | 11 | 1.34% | −23% |
| Cotton seed | 105,000 | 26 | 0.26% | +50% |
| Tomatoes | 103,550 | 81 | 0.05% | +41% |
| Game meat, fresh, chilled or frozen | 97,350 | 5 | 4.74% | +14% |
| Honey | 85,960 | 4 | 4.32% | +77% |
| Edible offal of cattle, fresh, chilled or frozen | 85,722 | 20 | 0.88% | +13% |
| Papayas | 82,703 | 21 | 0.56% | +57% |
| Linseed | 82,000 | 6 | 2.73% | −1.4% |
| Tea leaves | 76,731 | 19 | 0.23% | +40% |
| Cotton lint | 63,320 | 24 | 0.26% | +111% |
| Raw hides and skins of cattle | 62,344 | 22 | 0.71% | +13% |
| Chicken meat | 61,261 | 99 | 0.05% | −11% |
| Other nuts | 59,409 | 5 | 5.45% | −6.1% |
| Goat milk | 59,150 | 40 | 0.29% | +36% |
| Sheep milk | 58,805 | 29 | 0.6% | +19% |
| Oats | 53,443 | 37 | 0.24% | −25% |
| Oranges | 53,253 | 57 | 0.08% | −19% |
| Hen eggs | 48,041 | 86 | 0.05% | +10% |
| Other tropical fruits, n.e.c. | 47,446 | 27 | 0.2% | +4.4% |
| Yams | 45,301 | 26 | 0.05% | +279% |
| Edible offal of goat, fresh, chilled or frozen | 43,436 | 6 | 2.94% | +88% |
| Hop cones | 41,660 | 2 | 26.3% | +12% |
| Spring onions and shallots | 38,164 | 20 | 0.68% | +8.9% |
| Camel meat | 37,277 | 7 | 5.64% | +33% |
| Raw hides and skins of goats or kids | 35,292 | 6 | 2.31% | +88% |
| Edible offal of sheep, fresh, chilled or frozen | 32,659 | 16 | 1.65% | +45% |
| Raw hides and skins of sheep or lambs | 32,659 | 13 | 1.5% | +45% |
| Oil of linseed | 29,800 | 6 | 3.82% | −29% |
| Carrots and turnips | 22,028 | 81 | 0.05% | +54% |
| Rapeseed | 22,000 | 46 | 0.03% | −69% |
| Other fibre crops, raw, n.e.c. | 21,980 | 5 | 3.33% | +9.7% |
| Ghee from cow milk | 17,989 | 6 | 2.75% | +21% |
| Cattle fat, unrendered | 17,534 | 20 | 0.51% | +13% |
| Soya bean oil | 12,400 | 64 | 0.02% | — |
| Broad beans and horse beans, green | 11,956 | 28 | 0.82% | +10% |
| Castor oil seeds | 11,000 | 8 | 0.61% | 0.0% |
| Lettuce and chicory | 10,056 | 56 | 0.04% | +92% |
| Ginger | 9,792 | 19 | 0.2% | −2.1% |
| Cottonseed oil | 9,400 | 31 | 0.23% | +114% |
| Edible offals of camels and other camelids, fresh, chilled or frozen | 9,319 | 3 | 9.83% | +33% |
| Tangerines and mandarins | 9,195 | 55 | 0.02% | +2.0% |
| Safflower seed | 8,716 | 11 | 1.26% | +38% |
| Tea, packed | 7,200 | 30 | 0.1% | +44% |
| Wool, greasy | 7,127 | 36 | 0.42% | −10% |
| Other beans, green | 6,961 | 55 | 0.03% | +3.4% |
| Cheese from whole cow milk | 6,746 | 71 | 0.03% | +21% |
| Sunflower seed | 6,507 | 52 | 0.01% | +8.6% |
| Rapeseed or canola oil, crude | 6,300 | 51 | 0.02% | −77% |
| Goat fat, unrendered | 5,972 | 6 | 1.9% | +88% |
| Beeswax | 5,934 | 2 | 9.19% | +12% |
| Lemons and limes | 5,317 | 68 | 0.02% | −33% |
| Anise, coriander, cumin and fennel | 4,864 | 16 | 0.18% | −9.9% |
| Grapes | 4,817 | 79 | 0.01% | −3.6% |
| Pepper (black, white) | 4,562 | 16 | 0.49% | +12% |
| Sheep fat, unrendered | 3,810 | 26 | 0.59% | +45% |
| Leeks | 3,404 | 31 | 0.16% | +6.0% |
| Peas, green | 3,278 | 54 | 0.02% | +4.1% |
| Other citrus fruit, n.e.c. | 3,150 | 37 | 0.02% | −7.0% |
| Groundnut oil | 2,856 | 53 | 0.04% | +35% |
| Mustard seed | 2,767 | 10 | 0.32% | +6.4% |
| Pork (pig meat) | 2,592 | 122 | 0% | +33% |
| Butter of cow milk | 2,249 | 80 | 0.04% | +21% |
| Tobacco, unmanufactured | 2,176 | 70 | 0.04% | −4.0% |
| Pineapples | 2,098 | 70 | 0.01% | +296% |
| Safflower-seed oil, crude | 2,070 | 8 | 2.67% | +12% |
| Cucumbers | 1,718 | 108 | 0% | +6.9% |
| Fat of camels | 1,118 | 9 | 3.79% | +33% |
| Sisal | 627 | 11 | 0.27% | −3.5% |
| Kenaf | 537 | 17 | 0.23% | −3.6% |
| Buttermilk, dry | 360 | 75 | 0.05% | — |
| Wine | 329 | 70 | 0% | −64% |
| Fat of pigs | 185 | 96 | 0% | +33% |
| Nutmeg, mace and cardamom | 162 | 12 | 0.08% | +6.6% |
| Peaches and nectarines | 159 | 78 | 0% | +6.0% |
| Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen | 125 | 101 | 0% | +34% |
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.