Production quantity by nation, million tonnes.
Tobacco leaf production ranks the largest producing nations for 2024 by production quantity. The graphic uses five nation rows in million tonnes and does not use a world-total denominator. China leads at 2.26M tonnes, ahead of India at 727,203 tonnes. The leader is 9.53x the fifth-ranked producer, Zimbabwe, at 236,815 tonnes.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 2.26M tonnes | 2024 |
| 2 | India | 727,203 tonnes | 2024 |
| 3 | Brazil | 637,749 tonnes | 2024 |
| 4 | Indonesia | 353,386 tonnes | 2024 |
| 5 | Zimbabwe | 236,815 tonnes | 2024 |
Source 1: FAOSTAT Crops and Livestock Products
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Dataset/table: Crops and Livestock Products
Units: tonnes and source-unit variants
Date checked: 2026-05-31
Evidence: Defines the official crop-production source family and production-quantity metric used for the assignment.
Source 2: FAOSTAT
Publisher: Helgi Library
Dataset/table: FAOSTAT-labelled country or leading-nation production rows
Units: tonnes
Date checked: 2026-05-31
Evidence: Supports 2024 tobacco leaf production ranks and values for the raw Top 5 nation rows, with row-specific source URLs stored on each row.
Source 3: Our World in Data
Publisher: Our World in Data
Dataset/table: FAO Production: Crops and livestock products
Units: tonnes
Date checked: 2026-05-31
Evidence: Supports the FAO source family, item scope and 1961-2024 production series for unmanufactured tobacco.
No world-total denominator is used, so this page reports production quantities only. Small values are plotted in million tonnes while original tonne-scale values remain in row metadata.
Rows use the cited production quantities. Tonnes are scaled to million tonnes for plotting, and original tonnes remain in row metadata.
Rows use the same crop, production metric, period and unit within each ranking.
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