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Wood Charcoal Production

Source: Faostat

Last Updated: Mar 17, 2020

Based on a comparison of 149 countries in 2018, Brazil ranked the highest in wood charcoal production with 6,397,000 kt followed by Nigeria and Ethiopia. On the other end of the scale was Mauritius with 3.00 kt, Switzerland with 114 kt and Iran with 292 kt.

Total wood charcoal production reached 53,228,438 kt in 2018 in the World according to Faostat. This is 3.07% more than in the previous year and 11.8% more than 10 years ago.

Historically, total wood charcoal production reached an all time high of 53,228,438 kt in 2018 and an all time low of 16,450,500 kt in 1961. The average annual growth amounted to 2.08% since 1961.

The top ranked country, Brazil, accounted for 12.0 % of wood charcoal production in the world. The top 3 countries hold a 29.1 % share while the ten largest countries some 56.0% in 2018.

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Country	Unit	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Afghanistan	kt																																	118,969	122,388	125,905	129,524	133,132
Albania	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...															60,000	60,000	60,000	60,000	60,000
Algeria	kt																																	701,074	710,596	720,247	730,029	737,530
Angola	kt																																	314,056	324,871	336,058	347,630	358,427
Argentina	kt																																	361,000	439,000	386,300	420,000	399,000
Australia	kt																																	23,000	24,165	24,262	23,000	24,000
Austria	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...				1,377	1,269	1,263	1,447	1,382
Azerbaijan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	300	5,000	5,000	5,000	5,000
Bahamas	kt																																	1,094	1,105	1,115	1,125	1,131
Bahrain	kt	...		...	...		...	...	...	...	...	...		...			...	...	...	...	...													1,091	1,106	1,120	1,125	1,146
Bangladesh	kt																																	329,068	331,470	333,888	336,325	337,180
Belarus	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...														5,360	5,360	5,360	5,360	5,360
Belize	kt																																	741	750	759	768	779
Benin	kt																																	254,387	94,000	56,000	49,050	49,050
Bhutan	kt																																	7,000	7,000	7,000	7,000	7,000
Bolivia	kt																																	36,000	36,000	36,000	36,000	36,000
Bosnia and Herzegovina	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...										19,000	25,000	31,000	86,000	45,000
Botswana	kt																																	73,336	73,921	74,511	75,106	75,110
Brazil	kt																																	6,258,000	6,590,000	7,240,000	6,183,000	5,502,000
Brunei	kt																																	302	306	311	316	320
Bulgaria	kt																																	3,877	4,861	5,743	4,626	3,772
Burkina Faso	kt																																	619,487	636,798	654,594	672,887	689,661
Burundi	kt																																	60,000	269,000	264,000	264,000	264,000
Cambodia	kt																																	35,822	36,231	36,645	37,063	37,371
Cameroon	kt																																	447,862	457,431	467,205	477,188	485,887
Central African Republic	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																	199,325	202,973	206,688	210,471	213,817
Chad	kt																																	423,473	434,348	445,502	456,942	468,053
Chile	kt																																	247,200	246,553	245,909	245,266	244,118
China	kt																																	1,691,421	1,682,257	1,673,142	1,664,077	1,650,518
Colombia	kt																																	1,070,000	1,064,000	475,000	475,000	159,000
Comoros	kt																											...						41,928	43,083	44,270	45,490	46,529
Congo	kt																																	4,239	4,403	4,573	4,749	4,924
Costa Rica	kt																																	11,829	12,037	12,249	12,464	12,640
Croatia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					3,400	3,400	6,914	7,603	8,784
Cuba	kt																																	80,000	95,000	105,000	120,000	120,000
Cyprus	kt															...	...	...	...															1,400	1,200	1,000	1,553	2,283
Czech Republic	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...							...	...	...	...											6,000	6,000	6,000	6,000	6,000
Dem. People's Republic of Korea	kt																																	159,208	160,502	161,806	163,120	164,445
Dem. Republic of the Congo	kt																																	2,167,561	2,242,532	2,320,095	2,400,342	2,475,018
Denmark	kt													...					...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Djibouti	kt																																	49,483	50,305	51,139	51,988	52,667
Dominican Republic	kt																																	18,868	18,908	18,948	18,988	18,960
Ecuador	kt																																	76,517	73,668	68,325	43,957	79,406
Egypt	kt																																	1,384,711	1,397,378	1,410,160	1,423,059	1,433,938
El Salvador	kt																																	21,855	22,071	22,290	22,510	22,684
Equatorial Guinea	kt																																	9,539	9,788	10,042	10,304	10,523
Eritrea	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																				142,000	142,000	142,000	142,000	142,000
Estonia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...															2,400	1,705	1,769	693	1,105
Ethiopia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																				3,921,296	4,018,302	4,117,708	4,219,572	4,316,694
European Union	kt																																	232	229	294	308	...	...	...
Fiji	kt																																	2,400	2,417	2,433	2,450	2,462
France	kt																																	45,000	45,000	40,000	35,000	35,000
Gabon	kt																																	20,962	21,371	21,787	22,212	22,567
Gambia	kt																																	61,555	62,882	64,237	65,622	66,835
Germany	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...					2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	30,000
Ghana	kt																																	1,712,851	1,771,080	1,829,309	1,887,538	1,944,250
Greece	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...															...			3,044	1,908	1,908	1,908	1,908
Guatemala	kt																																	23,576	24,167	24,773	25,393	8,646
Guinea	kt																																	363,827	371,815	379,978	388,320	395,907
Guinea Bissau	kt																																	67,142	68,728	70,350	72,011	73,631
Guyana	kt																																	23,397	23,614	23,833	24,054	24,230
Haiti	kt																																	32,817	33,485	34,166	34,862	35,555
Honduras	kt																																	21,000	21,000	21,000	21,000	21,000
Hong Kong	kt																																	1,706	1,697	1,687	1,678	...	...	...
Hungary	kt																										...							...	...	...	...	...	...	...
India	kt																																	2,880,000	2,880,000	2,880,000	2,880,000	2,880,000
Indonesia	kt																																	664,000	664,000	664,000	664,000	664,000
Iraq	kt																																	22,567	22,567	22,567	22,567	22,567
Iran	kt																																	494	494	494	339	292
Italy	kt																																	10,000	10,000	10,000	10,000	10,000
Ivory Coast	kt																																	488,128	497,696	507,451	517,398	524,153
Jamaica	kt																																	9,928	10,072	10,218	10,366	10,500
Japan	kt																																	25,000	25,000	25,000	18,000	17,000
Jordan	kt																																	42,305	43,430	44,585	45,770	46,778
Kazakhstan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...									...				476	480	480	480	480
Kenya	kt																																	1,006,148	1,006,148	1,080,117	1,119,116	1,157,021
Kuwait	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...													2,879	2,922	2,965	3,008	3,040
Laos	kt																																	50,000	72,000	95,000	93,000	93,000
Latvia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																				11,926	8,310	12,000	11,000	11,000
Lebanon	kt																																	3,000	3,000	3,000	3,000	3,000
Lesotho	kt																																	100,206	102,043	103,914	105,819	107,454
Liberia	kt																																	252,358	261,768	271,529	281,654	291,350
Libya	kt																																	106,746	108,110	109,492	110,891	112,008
Lithuania	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...														623	600	600	680	700
Macao	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...						1.23	1.22	1.20	1.18	...	...	...
Macedonia	kt																																	1,187	1,187	1,187	1,181	...	...	...
Madagascar	kt																																	1,186,806	1,560,024	1,560,024	1,560,024	1,560,024
Malawi	kt																																	514,123	526,721	539,628	552,852	565,223
Malaysia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																						28,993	29,084	29,175	29,266	29,303
Maldives	kt																																	800	816	833	850	861
Mali	kt																																	141,000	171,000	171,000	275,000	283,000
Mauritania	kt																																	195,672	200,918	206,306	211,737	216,620
Mauritius	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...															50.0	40.0	2.00	2.00	3.00
Mexico	kt																																	80,000	82,000	90,000	91,000	100,000
Moldova	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...															...	...	1,000	130	1,000
Mongolia	kt																																	16,199	16,410	16,625	16,841	15,785
Montenegro	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...							2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000
Morocco	kt																																	109,245	110,642	112,039	113,435	114,661
Mozambique	kt																																	100,000	259,000	263,000	263,000	263,000
Myanmar	kt																																	329,227	356,828	354,157	320,623	286,712
Namibia	kt																																	144,452	135,373	144,953	160,676	161,549
Nepal	kt																																	80,691	82,209	83,756	85,332	86,602
Netherlands	kt						...	...	...		...	...	...					...																5,000	...	...	...	...	...	...
Nicaragua	kt																																	13,000	13,000	13,000	13,000	13,000
Niger	kt																																	625,847	645,939	666,676	688,078	708,126
Nigeria	kt																																	4,107,172	4,193,352	4,281,341	4,371,175	4,444,581
Oman	kt																																	6,178	6,732	6,573	6,780	6,952
Pakistan	kt																																	76,026	77,954	79,931	81,958	83,602
Panama	kt																																	5,070	5,092	5,115	5,137	5,145
Papua New Guinea	kt																																	6,281	6,388	6,498	6,609	6,700
Paraguay	kt																																	440,000	461,000	454,000	430,000	430,000
Peru	kt																																	93,000	47,000	59,065	20,257	50,774
Philippines	kt																																	433,000	410,000	407,000	426,000	426,000
Poland	kt																																	88,683	99,456	127,758	110,470	133,979
Portugal	kt																			...														19,389	12,478	8,770	8,770	8,770
Qatar	kt																																	765	769	774	778	778
Romania	kt																																	17,925	21,267	16,461	6,000	2,282
Russia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					53,224	51,200	52,634	52,320	70,000
Rwanda	kt																																	48,000	48,000	48,000	48,000	48,000
Saudi Arabia	kt																																	42,879	44,023	45,198	46,403	47,419
Senegal	kt																																	300,000	300,000	300,000	300,000	300,000
Serbia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...							29,000	27,000	23,000	22,000	27,000
Sierra Leone	kt																																	401,421	411,375	421,577	432,032	441,754
Singapore	kt																																	5,171	5,091	5,013	4,936	4,860
Slovakia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...				...	...	...														4,300	4,000	4,200	4,000	3,500
Slovenia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	500	500
Somalia	kt																																	1,187,164	1,187,164	1,187,164	1,181,457	1,224,642
South Africa	kt																																	188,900	188,900	188,900	188,900	188,900
South Korea	kt																																	6,000	9,000	9,000	9,000	9,000
South Sudan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...		251,000	258,000	265,000	272,000	278,000
Spain	kt																					...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...			30,000	40,000	42,330	35,847	35,960
Sri Lanka	kt																																	1,657	1,685	1,713	1,741	1,767
Sudan	kt																																	588,000	588,000	588,000	588,000	588,000
Suriname	kt																																	7,914	8,002	8,092	8,183	8,262
Swaziland	kt																																	44,943	46,136	47,361	48,618	49,622
Sweden	kt						...	...	...																					...	...			700	700	500	500	500
Switzerland	kt																																	110	83.0	130	112	128
Syria	kt																																	2,700	2,700	2,700	2,700	2,700
Taiwan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...		...		...																					13.4	13.1	12.9	12.7	...	...	...
Tanzania	kt																																	1,709,324	1,761,922	1,816,139	1,872,024	1,924,687
Thailand	kt																																	1,394,588	1,412,417	1,430,475	1,448,764	1,465,688
Togo	kt																																	239,291	245,411	251,687	258,124	263,880
Trinidad and Tobago	kt																																	1,853	1,851	1,848	1,840	1,846
Tunisia	kt																																	199,000	204,000	204,000	204,000	204,000
Turkey	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	800
Uganda	kt																																	931,466	1,000,000	1,037,412	1,065,731	1,091,717
Ukraine	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																	100,000	100,000	110,000	130,000	160,000
United Arab Emirates	kt																																	2,651	2,672	2,693	2,715	2,721
United Kingdom	kt										...	...	...					...																5,000	5,000	5,000	5,000	5,000
USA	kt																																	1,039,000	982,260	982,260	982,260	852,000
Uruguay	kt																																	118,441	118,422	118,403	118,385	118,266
Uzbekistan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	110
Venezuela	kt																																	7,000	5,000	5,000	5,000	5,000
Vietnam	kt																																	414,000	414,000	414,000	414,000	414,000
Yemen	kt																																	58,670	60,992	63,405	65,914	68,244
Zambia	kt																																	1,296,000	1,296,000	1,296,000	1,296,000	1,296,000
Zimbabwe	kt																																	11,280	11,375	11,472	11,569	11,666
World	kt																																	49,166,674	50,791,555	51,539,655	51,223,787	50,811,270

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