What we count
The harvested mass of cereals including wheat, rice, maize, barley and other crops.
Cereals produced this year
How much cereal the world produces in a year and what the global total contains.
Continuously calculated
WORLDRelated numbers in context
744,657,534oil crops produced this year
1,365,205,479sugar crops produced this year
232,084,932meat produced this year
What lies behind this number
The harvested mass of cereals including wheat, rice, maize, barley and other crops.
How the source derives it
The source compiles the global figure from national agricultural, food and production statistics under common definitions.
What one number cannot show
Harvest mass does not show how much becomes food, feed, seed, biofuel or loss.
Source value
The calculation uses the latest published annual value from FAOSTAT Agricultural Production 2024 for 2024.
How the value is used: The running number shows the share corresponding to time since the start of the year.
Annual value3,100,000,000tonnes
- Period
- 2024
- Status
- published
- Primary data source
- FAOSTAT Agricultural Production 2024
How the number is calculated
We distribute the published annual value evenly across the elapsed share of the calendar year.
Formula used
V(t) = Vyear × elapsed share of the yearAnnual reference value3,100,000,0002024 · tonnes
Average per day8,487,512even time-based calculation
Calculation interval0.1 sContinuously calculated
Source value
FAOSTAT Agricultural Production 2024 reports the latest published figure used on this page for 2024.
Calculation method
We distribute the published annual value evenly across the elapsed share of the calendar year.
Smooth display
The result is recalculated on screen every 0.1 seconds.
Where the data comes from
The source value comes from FAOSTAT Agricultural Production 2024 and refers to 2024. It is the latest figure published by this source. The source compiles the global figure from national agricultural, food and production statistics under common definitions.
Latest published and verified source value
- Publisher
- FAOSTAT Agricultural Production 2024
- Data period
- 2024
- Verified
- 12 August 2026
- Coverage
- Worldwide
- Use
- Even time-based calculation