Trade Production Statistics

Trade Production Statistics are needed to give some sense of how much mass of product is created, as the trade system requires something upon which to base the amount of goods in the game world. While these numbers on this page — taken from production figures generated by the United Nations, 1988, sourced from the Industrial Commodities Yearbook and the Food and Agriculture Organization — cannot themselves be used as is for measuring trade, the comparisons between one product and another is relevant in terms of supply. While the list is not exhaustive for all earthly products, there is enough here to provide a practical reference for estimating other commodities, products and even goods and services.

FAO Statistics

Commodity	Unit	Africa	Asia	Europe	N. America	Oceania	Russia	S America	World
Fibres & Cloth
cottonseed	th mt	3,792	24,275	1,082	9,865	740	8,700	4,661	53,115
fibres (misc.)	th mt	42	453	0	70	1	0	73	639
silk (raw)	mt	25	66,111	358	25	0	4,300	1,200	71,994
sisal	th mt	101	3	0	62	0	0	206	372
wool (scoured)	mt	112,976	276,767	181,453	24,352	804,000	285,600	192,812	1,877,963
Foodstuffs
aquatic plants*	mt	27,940	3,284,768	318,610	142,853	18,645	193,989	168,753	4,155,500
eggs (misc.)	mt	8,632	395,520	55,556	550	16,619	88,000	9,940	573,817
milk (sheep)	th mt	1,512	3,665	3,716	0	0	150	39	9,082
olive oil	th mt	138	274	1,176	2	0	0	11	1,601
olives	th mt	1,000	1,706	5,931	97	1	0	101	8,836
palm kernals	mt	691,730	1,972,214	0	40,080	67,800	0	313,000	3,084,824
palm oil	mt	1,586,150	6,779,000	0	143,450	171,000	0	381,165	9,060,765
pulses	th mt	6,865	23,237	6,906	3,462	1,591	8,735	3,856	54,652
raisins	th mt	28	562	166	316	61	0	18	1,151
rapeseed	th mt	25	8,749	8,096	4,244	84	425	134	21,757
roots & tubers	th mt	97,986	237,703	105,116	23,016	2,985	62,700	41,676	571,182
safflower seed	th mt	34	454	13	332	26	4	11	874
sorghum	th mt	15,280	18,427	526	20,740	1,635	150	5,029	61,787
soybeans	th mt	472	15,438	2,360	43,477	65	760	29,761	92,333
sugarbeets	th mt	3,902	32,268	144,822	23,219	0	87,800	2,676	294,687
sugarcane	th mt	73,185	374,556	226	181,656	31,043	0	327,544	988,210
sunflower seed	th mt	699	3,286	6,693	811	179	6,200	3,079	20,947
tea	th mt	277	2,004	0	0	9	160	49	2,499
tobacco plants	th mt	299	3,698	745	836	15	340	597	6,530
treenuts	th mt	270	1,750	868	866	15	124	206	4,099
vegetables & melons	th mt	30,851	238,940	70,036	36,812	2,169	33,781	13,599	426,188
Livestock
mules	th head	2,289	5,903	406	3,597	0	1	3,266	15,462
sheep	th head	199,599	331,566	142,081	19,071	228,983	140,783	110,745	1,172,828
swine	th head	13,057	404,963	190,412	77,904	5,365	77,403	54,299	823,403
turkeys	million	5	11	64	96	1	48	8	233
Woods
tung oil	th mt	1	67	0	0	0	1	16	85

• includes seaweed, guano, seabird eggs, pearls, shells, corals, sponges, etc.