Date producing countries in 2001

The bar chart shows the top ten date-producing countries and their annual production in tonnes in 2001. Ten countries are compete to have the first producer.

First, Egypt was responsible for the lion's share of production, with over a million tonnes, but Iran was a close second, with almost 0.9 million. Following them came the UAE and Saudi Arabia, rivalling each other with about 740,000 tonnes each. Pakistan and Iraq, with outputs of approximately 630,000, were not far behind. The rest of the nations, however, were far less productive. Algeria supplied the world with nearly 400,000 tonnes and Oman around quarter of a million. In contrast, the harvests in Libya and Sudan were far less plentiful, yielding under 0.2 million each.

As we can see, the best producer was Egypt with a big different from the other countries and the smallest output was Libya.