Cocoa: Production
How poor harvests in West Africa shrank supply
What this tab covers Who produces it and how much: world output over recent years, the top producing countries with their shares, USGS world figures for 2024 and 2025, and the largest producing companies globally and in India.FAOSTAT records 5.23 million tonnes of cocoa beans in 2024, down from 5.68 million in 2020 after poor West African harvests. Côte d'Ivoire alone grew 36.1%, Indonesia 12.1% and Ghana 10.1%, with Ecuador, Nigeria and Cameroon next. The HHI of 1,748 shows moderate concentration, but two West African neighbours supply almost half. Radetzki & Wårell show how the pattern formed: heavy export taxes cut Ghana's world share from 40% to 14% between the early 1960s and early 1980s, while Côte d'Ivoire's rose from 9% to 26%.
Cocoa beans · FAOSTAT
Chart: World production of Cocoa beans
World production, tonnes. Hover for values.Top producers 2024
Côte d'Ivoire 36.1% Indonesia 12.1% Ghana 10.1% Ecuador 7.7% Nigeria 6.7% Cameroon 6.1% Brazil 5.7% Peru 3.0% Concentration: HHI 1,748, moderately concentrated.Largest producers by company, global
- Barry Callebaut: 2.125 Mt sales volume (chocolate and cocoa products) (FY2024/25 (to Aug 2025))
- ofi (Olam Food Ingredients): 16% of world cocoa processing after buying ADM Cocoa (2014)
- Mondelez International: 38.5 US$ billion net revenue (all categories) (2025)
- Ferrero: 19.3 EUR billion consolidated revenue (FY2024/25 (to Aug 2025))
- Hershey: 11.69 US$ billion net sales (2025)
Largest producers by company, India
- Campco: 5,249 t dry beans bought (plus 1,762 t wet beans); 13,705 t chocolate produced (FY2024)
- Mondelez India Foods: 12,503 Rs crore revenue from operations (FY2025)