World Peanut Production

Total world peanut production for 2008 was 34.5 million metric tons (USDA data).
China led 2008 world groundnut production with 42%, India 18%, USA 7%, Nigeria 5%, Indonesia 4%, Burma 3%, Argentina 3%, Sudan 2%, Vietnam 2%, Chad 1%, Senegal 1%, Congo 1%, Burkina 1% and Brazil 1% of global peanuts for that year.

Mali, Malawi, Guinea, Cameroon, Egypt, Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Benin, Central Africa Republic, South Africa, Thailand, Mozambique, Niger, Pakistan, Mexico and other peanut growing regions each provided less than 1% of the world's peanuts for 2008.