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Fisheries and Aquaculture Production, 2020

2020, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

This is how much fish, shellfish and other aquatic animals a country catches at sea and in rivers and lakes, or farms, in a year, in tonnes of live weight. It is FAO's global production record, kept for every country since 1950, with wild capture and aquaculture stored side by side.

Fisheries and Aquaculture Production, 2020 covers 220 countries on 4 measures. China is highest, at 62,846,352; 3 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 49,496. Against 2019, 212 values changed (82 up, 130 down), the same countries are covered.

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Fisheries and Aquaculture Production · Data for 2020

HighestChina

62,846,352

Lowest3 countries share it

0

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Fisheries and Aquaculture Production, 2020, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 220 countries · select a heading to sort

Fisheries and Aquaculture Production, 2020: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
ChinaCHNEastern Asia62,846,35213,226,203.049,620,148.5121,082,713.5
IndiaINDSouthern Asia13,265,6384,629,652.08,635,986.0033,845.0
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia12,054,6446,882,049.95,172,594.409,724,450.5
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia8,173,6093,506,056.84,667,551.9413,883.0
PeruPERSouth America5,770,3715,626,541.7143,829.7250,423.8
RussiaRUSEastern Europe5,342,4565,072,094.1270,362.0029,755.0
United StatesUSANorthern America4,707,9954,259,760.0448,234.617,444.0
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia4,503,3711,919,505.02,583,866.00390.0
NorwayNORNorthern Europe3,962,6342,472,557.91,490,076.03153,146.2
JapanJPNEastern Asia3,804,9203,204,312.3600,608.00461,709.0
ChileCHLSouth America3,259,8741,773,977.81,485,896.00428,848.0
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia2,915,0531,770,240.01,144,813.000.0
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia2,766,4911,912,310.6854,180.171,469,037.8
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia2,600,3971,588,859.31,011,538.00—
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa2,010,134418,238.01,591,896.00—
South KoreaKOREastern Asia1,941,8101,369,297.1572,513.141,769,216.2
MexicoMEXCentral America1,931,4981,582,896.9348,601.167,937.4
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia1,605,4211,386,964.8218,456.17182,061.0
EcuadorECUSouth America1,410,870636,338.6774,531.5560.0
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa1,375,6721,374,244.11,427.8222,408.7
IranIRNSouthern Asia1,344,223790,900.0553,323.00147.0
BrazilBRASouth America1,114,728484,877.8629,850.201,085.0
SpainESPSouthern Europe1,069,459795,866.6273,592.082,436.3
IcelandISLNorthern Europe1,063,9701,023,361.240,609.0015,725.0
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa1,044,812783,101.7261,710.72—

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. China62,846,352
  2. India13,265,638
  3. Indonesia12,054,644
  4. Vietnam8,173,609
  5. Peru5,770,371

Lowest

  1. San Marinoshared0
  2. Liechtensteinshared0
  3. Andorrashared0
  4. Monaco1
  5. Luxembourg8

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 49,496. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Capture fisheries (tonnes, live weight)

    HighestChina13,226,203.0

    Lowest5 share it

    Middle country: 40,243.9

  • Aquaculture (tonnes, live weight)

    HighestChina49,620,148.51

    Lowest22 share it

    Middle country: 2,327.05

  • Algae, capture and farmed (tonnes, wet weight; not in the total)

    HighestChina21,082,713.5

    Lowest8 share it

    Middle country: 421.7

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 212values changed, of 220 in both
  • 82 · 130rose · fell
  • 8unchanged

Rose most

  • Peru4,976,228 → 5,770,371+794,143
  • China62,241,668 → 62,846,352+604,683
  • Vietnam7,799,686 → 8,173,609+373,922
  • Oman580,240 → 794,726+214,486
  • Norway3,767,967 → 3,962,634+194,667

Fell most

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from FAO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 2020.

  • 217 distinct values among 220

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 3 countries share 0. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 147 empty cells

    An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

05The files

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2020). Fisheries and Aquaculture Production, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fish-production/2020

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