The data displays the worldwide tobacco production in 2016, by country. In that year, China was the largest tobacco producer worldwide with an amount of some 2.8 million metric tons of tobacco produced.
Tobacco production
Tobacco is a plant product containing mainly nicotine, cellulose, ammonia, and protein. In order for tobacco to be suitable for human consumption, the tobacco leaves are dried and cured after picking them at the plant and separating them from their stems. Various tobacco goods can be manufactured from the processed dried leaves including cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco and shisha tobacco.
