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Food and agriculture

Crops, harvests, livestock, diets and what the world grows and eats.

📚 Food and agriculture rankings: the complete guide to 87 live Top 10s →

About food and agriculture

Food and agriculture rankings, explained

Food and agriculture on Top10Earth: Crops, harvests, livestock, diets and what the world grows and eats. This category currently holds 87 live rankings, each one built from a single public data source, measured by one clearly named metric and refreshed on its own schedule. The most recent update in the category was on 2026-11-02.

Who leads right now: Faroe Islands tops Countries applying the most potash fertilizer per hectare with 251.73 kilograms per hectare; China tops Countries catching the most wild fish with 13.3k thousand metric tons; Tonga tops Countries eating the most poultry per person with 87.92 kg per person per year; Mongolia tops Countries getting the largest share of their calories from animal protein with 12.84 %; Niger tops Countries most dependent on agriculture (share of GDP) with 47.59 % of GDP; United States tops Countries producing the most beef with 12.3k thousand tonnes. Open any ranking for the full top 10, the complete table behind it and a chart of how positions have moved.

No positions have changed since the previous refresh across this category, which is common for slow-moving measures and is reported exactly as found.

Metrics used here include Potash fertilizer use per hectare of cropland, Capture fisheries production (metric tons), Poultry consumption, Animal protein share of food energy, Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP) and Beef and buffalo meat production. Each ranking page explains precisely what its metric counts, which source it comes from and what caveats apply, so two rankings that sound similar can be told apart. Entries link to profile pages that gather every ranking an entry appears in, and any two entries in the same ranking can be compared head to head.

Top10Earth never estimates or edits a value: each number is fetched from its source, hashed, stored and ranked by software, then checked by a quality gate before it is published. If a refresh fails the gate, the previous snapshot stays live and the problem is reviewed by a person. Want to test what you know? Every ranking in food and agriculture has a three-minute quiz: name all ten, share your score and dare someone to beat it.

Frequently asked questions

What is in the Food and agriculture category?
87 live Top 10 rankings covering Potash fertilizer use per hectare of cropland, Capture fisheries production (metric tons), Poultry consumption, Animal protein share of food energy, Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP) and Beef and buffalo meat production, each from a named public source.
How often are food and agriculture rankings updated?
Each ranking has its own refresh schedule, from daily to monthly depending on how often the source publishes. The latest update in this category was on 2026-11-02.
Can I compare two entries?
Yes. Every ranking page offers head-to-head links, and any two entries that share a ranking have a comparison page showing their positions and values side by side.