Capture fisheries production in China

Capture fisheries in China landed 13,262,322 tonnes in 2024.

Measure: Capture fisheries production Unit: Metric tonnes Data: 1960 to 2024 Source: World Bank
China, 2024 13,262,322 Metric tonnes
Change from 2023 0% 2023: 13,263,391 tonnes
World, 2024 94,403,126 tonnes Official aggregate
Position in 2024 1st of 215 See the full ranking

Capture fisheries production in China over time

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Metric tonnes. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Capture fisheries production (metric tonnes), 2000 to 2024
Period ChinaWorld
2024 13,262,322 tonnes 94,403,126 tonnes
2023 13,263,391 tonnes 92,981,262 tonnes
2022 13,179,077 tonnes 93,221,970 tonnes
2021 13,142,837 tonnes 93,590,253 tonnes
2020 13,445,983 tonnes 91,609,572 tonnes
2019 14,169,863 tonnes 94,910,375 tonnes
2018 14,831,109 tonnes 98,740,431 tonnes
2017 15,576,685 tonnes 95,664,397 tonnes
2016 16,019,262 tonnes 92,195,579 tonnes
2015 16,647,934 tonnes 94,357,557 tonnes
2014 16,363,366 tonnes 93,466,633 tonnes
2013 15,633,567 tonnes 93,116,007 tonnes
2012 15,446,318 tonnes 91,395,933 tonnes
2011 15,263,615 tonnes 94,143,395 tonnes
2010 15,054,057 tonnes 89,688,933 tonnes
2009 15,062,980 tonnes 91,445,934 tonnes
2008 15,157,263 tonnes 92,325,811 tonnes
2007 14,987,636 tonnes 93,503,695 tonnes
2006 14,995,706 tonnes 93,672,351 tonnes
2005 14,850,730 tonnes 95,594,652 tonnes
2004 14,786,243 tonnes 95,878,960 tonnes
2003 14,598,934 tonnes 91,084,188 tonnes
2002 14,426,596 tonnes 93,786,009 tonnes
2001 14,403,875 tonnes 93,409,856 tonnes
2000 14,823,866 tonnes 96,170,993 tonnes

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of 0% from 13,263,391 tonnes in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 16,363,366 tonnes, the figure has changed by −19.0%.
  • Among the 215 countries with data for 2024, China has the highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2024 was 94,403,126 tonnes.

Source and dates

Original producer
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
ER.FSH.CAPT.MT · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1960 to 2024 for China
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)