Fruits are good for health. No, that is not the reason I decided to explore status of fruit production. Just like that, I got wondering about the world’s favourite fruits. I thought it would be either banana or apple or orange. But, I was wrong. It is watermelon. That’s what fruit production data from ‘Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ says. I downloaded data of available last 21 years (1992-2012) and watermelon production tops the list at total production of 1,597,666,215 tonnes. Banana comes second at 1,582,096,157 tonnes. Of course, regional favourites would be different.
So, if you like me are interested in knowing how fruit production changed over years, here is a dashboard. If watermelon production tops the chart in 2012, grapes had the honours in 1992 which again I found surprising. The world saw a great rise in fruit production: from 472,120,415 tonnes in 1992 to 822,028,049 tonnes in 2012 (74.11% rise). China and India are top fruit producers, but China is way ahead of everyone else. In 2012, China’s share in total fruit production was 26.93%. India was second with 10.10% of total production. If you want to know more about fruit production in last 21 years, click on the image to open an interactive dashboard.
- As said before, data is from year 1992 to 2012.
- Only culinary fruits were considered (As for example, tomato is not a culinary fruit)
- Fruit images from openclipart.org
yet another data blog 