Top Ten Date-Producing Countries, 2001

The chart shows the top ten date producing countries in 2001. These countries in North Africa and the Arabian Gulf, which are famous for exporting dates to the world. It shows which country takes the first place in production in the world.

Egypt takes the top place for date producing in the world. It’s about one million and one hundred thousand tones. Iran produces two hundred thousand tones less than Egypt. The UAE and Saudi Arabia are rivaling each other with about 740,000 tons each. Pakistan and Iraq both have production of 630,000 tones, each one. Algeria send to the world about 400 thousands tones and Oman around a ¼ million. In Lastly, Sudan’s and Libya’s crops yielded under 0.2 million each.

Finally, some of these countries are producing more than 800 thousand tones like Egypt and Iran. Also some countries between 400 to 800 thousand tones like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iraq and Pakistan. Finally, under 400 thousand tones come from Algeria, Oman, Sudan and Libya.