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  • How much oil does oil palm produce a year?
  • Oil palm crops globally produce an annual 81 million tonnes (Mt) of oil from about 19 million hectares (Mha). In contrast, the second and third largest vegetable oil crops, soybean and rapeseed, yield a combined 84 Mt oil but occupy over 163 Mha of increasingly scarce arable land. The oil palm crop system faces many challenges in the 2020s.
  • How has global oil palm production changed over the last two decades?
  • Driven by food and industrial demand, the production of global oil palm has more than doubled over the last two decades. Between 1997 and 2018, oil palm plantations expanded from 10 to 21 Million hectares (Mha), while crude palm oil production increased from 100 to 300 million tons (Mt) 1.
  • How many people work in the palm oil industry?
  • In the two largest palm oil producers in the world, Indonesia and Malaysia, the palm oil sector directly employs almost 5 million smallholders and workers and indirectly employs an additional 6 million people (Russell, 2018, 2020). The sector is also responsible for an estimated 2.9 million downstream jobs in importing countries (Basiron, 2016).
  • How much palm oil is produced in Indonesia?
  • In 2023/24, Indonesian production volume of palm oil amounted to 47 million metric tons. This is more than twice as much as the production volume in Malaysia, which had the second-highest production levels worldwide in that year. Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil commonly used for food products, detergents, and cosmetics.