FAO/GIEWS - Food Outlook No.1 - February 2001 p. 8

Table A.5 - WORLD STOCKS: Estimated Total Carryovers of Cereals 1/*

	Crop Years ending in:
	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000 estim.	2001 f'cast
	( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . million tonnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . )
TOTAL CEREALS*	637.5	588.0	633.6	674.8	700.2	691.2	639.6
(as of November 2000)**	(313.2)	(257.9)	(298.0)	(335.3)	(353.6)	(339.7)	(287.9)
held by:
- main exporters 2/	200.4	167.3	194.6	224.3	254.7	248.7	236.8
- others	437.1	420.7	439.0	450.5	445.5	442.5	402.9
BY GRAINS*
Wheat	232.6	221.4	232.4	254.3	259.9	255.9	238.7
held by:
- main exporters	31.8	28.9	37.0	39.9	52.8	52.2	46.1
- others	200.8	192.5	195.4	214.5	207.1	203.7	192.6
Coarse Grains	258.1	222.1	250.3	268.3	284.7	273.2	246.4
held by:
- main exporters	62.4	31.7	46.1	68.9	84.3	76.9	77.0
- others	195.7	190.3	204.1	199.5	200.4	196.3	169.4
Rice (milled basis)	146.8	144.5	151.0	152.2	155.6	162.1	154.5
held by:
- main exporters	106.2	106.7	111.4	115.6	117.6	119.6	113.6
- others	40.6	37.9	39.6	36.6	38.0	42.4	40.9
BY REGIONS*
Developed Countries	157.7	103.4	121.7	168.3	174.7	162.2	153.0
North America	69.3	35.2	53.9	69.1	90.3	88.9	83.0
Canada	9.2	9.8	14.0	10.4	12.5	13.4	11.8
United States	60.2	25.5	39.9	58.7	77.8	75.5	71.1
Others	88.4	68.2	67.8	99.1	84.4	73.2	70.1
Australia	2.6	3.1	4.1	3.7	3.4	4.9	3.3
EC 3/	23.0	22.5	24.2	35.1	41.2	33.6	35.5
Japan	5.5	6.1	6.7	6.7	5.9	5.6	5.4
Russian Fed.	15.9	7.2	6.5	18.0	5.8	5.0	7.4
Souith Africa	3.2	1.3	1.9	3.3	1.9	1.3	1.9
Developing Countries	479.8	484.6	511.9	506.6	525.5	529.1	486.6
Asia	446.6	456.1	476.2	474.3	488.6	492.5	454.4
China 4/*	372.5	383.6	399.9	396.7	405.3	402.5	364.0
India	35.8	31.7	32.0	37.3	40.2	47.9	50.9
Indonesia	5.0	6.0	6.4	4.7	5.4	5.6	5.0
Iran, Islamic Rep. of	5.4	4.6	5.5	4.4	4.2	4.5	4.3
Korea, Rep. of	2.5	2.0	2.4	2.7	2.7	3.1	3.2
Pakistan	3.2	3.4	3.7	4.1	4.4	4.2	4.0
Philippines	1.2	1.9	2.0	2.0	2.6	2.8	2.8
Syria	3.0	3.3	3.2	2.2	2.1	1.3	0.9
Turkey	1.9	4.0	5.9	6.2	7.3	5.0	4.4
Africa	18.9	13.5	21.6	18.3	21.7	19.7	16.7
Algeria	2.7	1.5	2.3	1.1	2.0	1.7	1.5
Egypt	1.3	1.6	2.2	2.8	3.4	2.8	3.2
Morocco	2.9	0.6	3.8	2.5	4.3	3.2	1.3
Tunisia	1.5	1.0	2.1	1.9	1.7	1.7	1.2
Central America	4.6	6.3	7.0	6.9	7.1	7.3	7.0
Mexico	2.8	5.0	5.7	5.9	6.1	6.3	6.1
South America	9.5	8.5	7.0	7.0	7.8	9.4	8.3
Argentina	0.7	1.0	2.3	2.2	3.5	3.3	2.9
Brazil	5.8	4.9	2.3	2.2	1.4	3.4	2.9

SOURCE: FAO

Note: Based on official and unofficial estimates. Totals computed from unrounded data.

1/ Stock data are based on an aggregate of carryovers at the end of national crop years and should not be construed as representing world stock levels at a fixed point in time.

2/ The major wheat and coarse grains exporters are Argentina, Australia, Canada, the EC and the United States; the major rice exporters include China (total), Pakistan, Thailand, the United States and Viet Nam. See Table A.4 for country details.

3/ From 1996, includes 15 member countries.

4/ Including Taiwan Province.

* Stocks estimates have been adjusted for all the years shown following a major revision of the China cereal balance since the previous issue of Food Outlook in November 2000.

** The numbers in brackets show the estimates for world cereal stocks, prior to the adjustments of China stocks, as was reported in November.