Editing Rye (section)

== Production and consumption ==

[[File:2014 Rye Countries Export Treemap.png|thumb|upright=1.7|Exports by country (2014)<ref>[http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/tree_map/export/show/all/1002/2014/ Harvard Atlas of Economic Complexity]</ref>]]

[[File:RyeYield.png|thumb|upright=1.7|Map of global production. Rye is grown mainly across Central and Northern Europe into Russia.]]

Rye is grown primarily in Eastern, Central and Northern Europe. The main rye belt stretches from northern Germany through Poland, Ukraine, and eastwards into central and northern Russia. Rye is also grown in North America, in South America including Argentina, in Oceania (Australia and New Zealand), in Turkey, and in northern China. Production levels of rye have fallen since 1992 in most of the producing nations, {{as of|2022|lc=y}}; for instance, production of rye in Russia fell from 13.9 metric tons<!--intentional--> in 1992 to 2.2 metric tons in 2022.<ref name="FAOSTAT">{{cite web |url=https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL |title=Crops and livestock products |work=FAOSTAT |publisher=[[Food and Agriculture Organization]]}}</ref><ref name="FAOSTATb" />

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
|+ Top rye producers (in metric tons)
|-
! Producer
! 2022<ref name="FAOSTATb">{{cite web |title=FAOSTAT |url=https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL |website=www.fao.org |access-date=1 March 2024}}</ref>
! 2020<ref name="FAOSTATb" />
! 2018<ref name="FAOSTATb" />
! 2016<ref name="FAOSTATb" />
! 2014<ref name="FAOSTATb" />
|-
|{{left}} {{EU}}  ||7,450,920 ||8,939,510 ||6,141,040 ||7,400,686 ||8,890,726
|-
|{{left}} {{GER}} ||3,132,300 ||3,513,400 ||2,201,400 ||3,173,800 ||3,854,400
|-
|{{left}} {{POL}} ||2,337,130 ||2,929,930 ||2,126,570 ||2,199,578 ||2,792,593
|-
|{{left}} {{RUS}} ||2,178,808 ||2,377,629 ||1,916,056 ||2,547,878 ||3,280,759
|-
|{{left}} {{BLR}} ||  750,000 ||  1,050,702 ||  502,505 ||650,908 ||   867,075
|-
|{{left}} {{DEN}} ||  691,470 ||  699,370 ||  476,590 ||  577,200 ||   677,800
|-
|{{left}} {{CAN}} ||  520,177 ||  487,800 ||  236,400 ||  436,000 ||   217,500
|-
|{{left}} {{CHN}} ||  500,767 ||  512,591 ||  504,698 ||  545,657 ||   520,000
|-
|{{left}} {{UKR}} ||  314,030 ||  456,780 ||  393,780 ||  391,560 ||   478,000
|-
|{{left}} {{USA}} ||  312,460 ||  292,930 ||  214,180 ||  290,379 ||   182,610
|-
|{{left}} {{UK}} ||   242,207 ||   72,450 ||   95,366 ||   48,563 ||   55,899
|-
|{{left}} {{ARG}} ||   225,510 ||   221,201 ||   86,098 ||  60,676 ||   52,130
|-
|{{left}} {{ESP}} ||  188,880 ||  407,620 ||  404,280 ||  377,355 ||   290,970
|-
|{{left}} '''World total''' ||'''13,143,055''' ||'''15,036,812''' ||'''10,702,482''' ||'''12,999,144''' ||'''15,204,158'''
|}
{{Clear}}

World trade of rye is low compared with other grains such as wheat. The total export of rye for 2016 was $186 million<ref>{{cite web |url=http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/show/all/100200/2016/ |title=OEC – Countries that export Rye (2016) |access-date=October 22, 2017 |archive-date=March 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220323020546/https://oec.world/en/home-a |url-status=live}}</ref> compared with $30.1 billion for wheat.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/show/all/100190/2016/ |title=OEC – Countries that export Wheat except durum wheat, and meslin (2016) |access-date=October 22, 2017 |archive-date=March 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220323020450/https://oec.world/en/home-a |url-status=live}}</ref>

Poland consumes the most rye per person at {{cvt|32.4|kg}} per capita (2009), followed by the Nordic and Baltic countries. The EU in general is around {{cvt|5.6|kg}} per capita. The entire world only consumes {{cvt|0.9|kg|sigfig=1}} per capita.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ryeandhealth.org/statistics-a-usage |title=Statistics and Usage – www.ryeandhealth.org |access-date=October 22, 2017 |archive-date=June 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615152805/http://www.ryeandhealth.org/statistics-a-usage |url-status=dead}}</ref>