Date –Producing Countries,2001

The bar graph shows the production of dates in tonnes for the world’s top producers in the year 2001. Ten countries in the Asian continent and African continent are included.

First, Egypt took the lion’s share of production, with over a million tonnes, but Iran is a close second, with almost 0.9 million. The UAE supplied the world with nearly 750,000 tonnes and Saudi Arabia around 725,000 tonnes. Following them Iraq and Pakistan, with outputs of approximately 620,000 tonnes each, were far less productive. Algeria supplied the world with nearly 400,000 tonnes and Oman around a quarter of a million. In contrast, harvests in Sudan and Libya were far less plentiful, yielding under  0.2 million each.

In summary, Egypt and Iran are close to each other in the date production. However, Libya and Sudan are the smallest two producers in northern Africa.