Table 1.1
Food production in selected countries, 2004
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| Cereals | Meat | Fisheries and aquaculture 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Production | Share in world | Rank | Production | Share in world | Rank | Production | Share in world | Rank | |
| thousands of tonnes | percent | thousands of tonnes | percent | thousands of tonnes | percent | ||||
| Australia | 31,520 | 1.4 | 16 | 3,769 | 1.4 | 13 | 267 | 0.3 | 49 |
| Brazil | 63,812 | 2.8 | 7 | 19,919 | 7.7 | 3 | 1,016 | 1.1 | 22 |
| Canada | 52,684 | 2.3 | 8 | 4,592 | 1.8 | 10 | 1,319 | 1.5 | 19 |
| China | 413,166 | 18.2 | 1 | 74,306 | 28.6 | 1 | 48,907 | 54.3 | 1 |
| France | 70,534 | 3.1 | 5 | 6,255 | 2.4 | 5 | 841 | 0.9 | 28 |
| Mexico | 32,751 | 1.4 | 15 | 5,040 | 1.9 | 8 | 1,539 | 1.7 | 17 |
| United Kingdom | 22,030 | 1.0 | 25 | 3,270 | 1.3 | 15 | 860 | 1.0 | 27 |
| United States of America | 389,066 | 17.1 | 2 | 38,891 | 15.0 | 2 | 5,566 | 6.2 | 6 |
Includes capture and aquaculture of freshwater
fish, diadromous fish, marine fish and other aquatic animals.
Source(s):
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2006,
FAO Statistical Yearbook 2005-2006, www.fao.org/statistics/yearbook/vol_1_1/index.asp (accessed
March 2, 2008).
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