TABLE 5.

Wheat and corn production and imports in selected Middle East countries.

Country	Wheat production (P)a and imports (I)b in million tons						Maize (Corn) production (P)a and imports (I)b in million tons
	2000 P	2000 I	2010 P	2010 I	2020 P	2020 I	2000 P	2000 I	2010 P	2010 I	2020 P	2020 I
Algeria	0.76	5.37	2.61	5.23	3.11	NA	0	1.48	0	2.78	0	NA
Egypt	6.56	4.9	7.18	9.93	9.00*	9.58	6.47	4.96	7.04	5.2	7.50*	8.51
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	8.09	6.58	12.14	1.41	15.00*	0.00(18)	1.12	1.18	1.66	3.63	1.40*	8.98(18)
Jordan	0.03	0.58	0.02	0.49	0.02 Im	0.76	0.02	0.41	0.03	0.51	0.02 Im	0.74
Lebanon	0.11	0.41	0.08*	0.51	0.14*	0.63	0	0.29	0.01 Im	0.35	0.00*	0.56
Libya	0.13*	NA	0.13 Im	1.06	0.13*	1.44(18)	0.01	NA	0.00*	0.31	0.00 Im	0.75
Mauritania	0.00 Im	0.09	0	0.32	0.01 Im	0.69	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.02*	0.01
Morocco	1.38	3.44	4.88	3.24	2.56	5.52	0.1	0.9	0.28	1.9	0.03	2.87
Oman	0	0.27	0	0.25	0	0.70(18)	0.02 Im	0.04	0.01 Im	0.09	0.03 Im	0.21(18)
Palestine	0.05	NA	0.02	0.07	0.03 Im	0.04	0	NA	0	1.92	0	0.03
Qatar	0	0.04	0	0.14	0	0.06	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.1
Saudi Arabia	1.79	0.02	1.35	1.62	0.55	0.77	0.04	1.26	0.08	1.92	0.06	3.07
Sudan	0.21	0.75(01)	0.4	1.35	0.75	5.01(18)	0.05	0.03(01)	0.04	0.04	0.01	0.00(18)
Tunisia	0.84	1.39	0.82	1.91	1.04	1.85(19)	0	0.68	0	0.89	0	1.03(19)
Turkey	21	0.96	19.67	2.55	20.5	10.00(19)	2.3	1.29	4.31	0.45	6.5	4.35(19)
United Arab Emirates	0	1.07	NA	0.85	NA	1.26(19)	0.00 Im	0.05	0.01	0.24	0.02 Im	0.56
Yemen	0.14	NA	0.27	2.65	0.10 Im	2.00(19)	0.05	NA	0.09	0.46	0.04*	0.70(19)

(a) All data of production are retrieved from the FAO stat https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/. Data annotated from FAO as follows: * = unofficial figure; Im = FAO data based on imputation methodology. All other data are official figures.

(b) All data retrieved from the UN Comtrade Database at https://comtrade.un.org/data/. NA = data not available. The following annotation applies if the year of the retrieved data differs from the indicated column year [(18) means year 2018].