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Leading orange producing countries worldwide in 2025/2026 (in million metric tons)*

Characteristic	Production in million metric tons
Brazil	13.5
China	7.68
European Union	5.64
Mexico	4.7
Egypt	4
United States	2.18
Vietnam	1.92
South Africa	1.9
Turkey	1.3
Morocco	0.97

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January 2026

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2025/2026

Supplementary notes

* Estimated.
Numbers have been rounded to provide a better understanding of the statistic.
Split years refer to the harvest and marketing period, which corresponds roughly to October-September in the Northern Hemisphere and April-March in the Southern Hemisphere. For the Southern Hemisphere, harvest occurs almost entirely during the second year shown. Argentina - January through December; South Africa - February through January; Australia - April through March; Brazil - July through June.

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During the marketing year 2025/2026, Brazil was the leading global orange producer, with production volume of about 13.5 million metric tons. That year, the global production volume of fresh oranges amounted to about 45.9 million metric tons.

Global citrus production

Oranges are one of the most produced fruits worldwide, but there are many other types of popular citrus fruits. Some of these include grapefruit, tangerines, clementines, lemons, and limes, among others. In 2023, Asia was the largest producer of citrus fruit worldwide, producing about 89.4 million metric tons of citrus.

Citrus production in China

China produced just under 68 million metric tons of citrus in 2024, meaning that China was responsible for about 75 percent of all the citrus produced in Asia that year. Not all the fruit produced in China in used domestically. A significant amount of fruit is exported from China each year, ranging from four to seven billion U.S. dollars’ worth of product.