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which country is the largest producer of pumpkins

China is the largest producer of pumpkins in the world, harvesting far more than any other country each year.

Quick answer

  • The country that produces the most pumpkins is China.
  • Recent agricultural statistics show China’s annual pumpkin output at roughly 7–8 million tonnes, several times higher than most other major producers like India, Ukraine, and the United States.

A bit more context

Pumpkins are grouped in many statistics together with squash and gourds, and across these combined categories China consistently ranks at the top in both harvested area and total production. This dominance is driven by large cultivated areas in provinces such as Shandong and Henan and the crop’s use for food, oil, and export.

Other big pumpkin producers after China typically include India, Ukraine, the United States, Spain, Türkiye, Mexico, and Bangladesh, but none approach China’s volume. In most recent rankings compiled from FAO-based datasets and national statistics, China remains clearly in first place as the largest pumpkin producer globally.

Information gathered from public data available on the internet and portrayed here.