California Olive Oil Statistics - Growers, Tree numbers, Variety types, Tree ages


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Olive Oil Statistics

U.S. Statistics

U.S. Producers-Growers

Most Common Olive Varieties reported in Grower Groves, Total Growers, Total Trees
Average Tree Age by Variety
Total Companies by Orchard variety, average tree age, total trees
Total Olive Oil Companies by Pressing method

State Data

Total Olive Oil Companies - by US state

County Data

Olive Tree Variety - by California county- graphical map
Olive Tree Count - by California County - graphical map
Olive Oil Companies - by California County- graphical map

U.S. Products

Total Products by Olive Oil Variety
Most Common Olive Varieties reported as a product ingredient
Total Products by how Classified
Organic, Estate Grown, COOC certified, Kosher, Flavored

Above statistics are generated on self-reported data updated daily by U.S. growers to the Olive Oil Source
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2002 California Olive Crop Estimated Tonnage by variety

Total was 90,000 tons, down 33 percent from previous year.
Yield estimated to be 2.5 tons per acre (the low year for this alternate bearing crop). Remember that most California olives are grown for table olives, not oil.

U.S. olive oil production

California olive oil production 2004 per Paul Vossen, UC Davis

383,000 gallons

California olive oil tree acreage

6,168 acres of olive trees specifically for oil

Total CA olive tree acreage (for both oil and canning)

40,000 acres

Canning olives produced in CA in 2003 year

107,997 tons

California olive oil price

$10 - $40 per half liter

California Share of U.S. production of olive oil

99%

US share of world production of olive oil

0.1%

Source: University of California Survey 2005 - Paul Vossen¹

U.S. domestic olive oil consumption

2003: Virgin olive oil: 261 million pounds
2003: Refined olive oil: 193 million pounds
Total: 454 million pounds

Source: Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau. Presented by: Office of Trade and Economic Analysis (OTEA), International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Commerce and the IOOC, Madrid

U.S. Imports of Olive Oil (1,000 metric tons)
Source: IOOC: http://www.internationaloliveoil.org/downloads/importations1_ang.PDF
	1990	90
	1991	87.5
	1992	108.5
	1993	111.5
	1994	121.5
	1995	105
	1996	140
	1997	144
	1998	155
	1999	175
	2000	200
	2001	193
	2002	191.5
	2003	221
	2004	225

U.S. demand trends

20% increase each year

Percent of consumption which is domestic oil

< 1%

Value of imported olive oil 2003

$519 million

Consumption channels - 2003/2004

retail sales - 56%

food service sector - 39%

commercial ingredient sector - 5%

Number of California olive Growers

1,225 in 1997

Average holdings of CA growers

2/3 of growers have less than 20 acres. 5 have more than 500

Value of California olive crop

$66.8 million

California Olive Usage

90% table olives
10% oil/other

Typical olive weight

1 to 14 grams.

Olive trees per acre

120 (traditional) to 650 (high density trellised)

Trees size

10 to 60 feet in height depending on variety and pruning

Tree yield

A single tree is reputed to have yielded as much as 800 kilos of olives

Olive color

Olives are green when unripe, turning reddish to brown to black as they ripen

Olive shapes

round, bent, banana shaped, elongate

Oil yield as percent of olive weight

10 to 35% depends on variety, ripeness, growing conditions and processing method

Flesh to pit ratio

5:1 to 9:1

Oil yield per ton of olives

12 to 50 gallons of olive oil per ton of olives

California Olive Production Statistics - (mostly table olives) USDA statistics
Year	Harvested Acreage	Production per Acre	Total Production (tons)	Value per ton	Total Value
2000	36,000 acres
1999			145,000
1998			90,000
1997		3.43 tons	104,000	661.00
1996		6.74 tons	166,000	648.00
1995		3.66 tons	77,500	640.00
1994		4.55 tons	84,000	470.00

Leading olive-producing counties				Tulare, Tehama, Glenn, Madera and Butte

World Statistics
Worldwide olive oil production		460 million gallons
Worldwide olive oil consumption		486 million gallons
Average annual world olive oil consumption over the last 30 years		1,465,000 metric tons
Spain's share		30% - 190 million trees
Italy's share		24%
Largest producers worldwide		Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Tunisia, Turkey, Syria

Rest of World in Detail

IOOC statistics for World Olive Oil Production
(1,000 tons metric)
http://www.internationaloliveoil.org/economics2.asp

- 36% of all growers produce <200kg oil annually

- There are 2.8 million producers worldwide

- There are 10,800 mills in the world

	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98	1998/9	1999/0	2000/1	2001/2	2002/3	2003/4	2004/5

France	2	3	3	3	4	3	4	5	3	5
Italy	620	370	620	404	735	509	657	634	685	760
Greece	400	390	375	473	420	430	358	414	308	420
Spain	338	947	1,077	792	669	974	1,411	861	1,412	933
Portugal	44	45	42	35	50	25	34	29	33	30

EC subtotal	1,404	1,755	2,117	1,707	1,878	1,941	2,464	1,943	2,441	2,148

Argentina	11	12	8	7	11	4	10	11	14	7
Cyprus	3	2	2	3	4	6	7	7	3	0
Croatia				5	9	6	5	7	3	5
Iran	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	2	4	3
Israel	5	6	3	5	3	7	4	9	3	9
Jordan	14	23	14	22	7	27	14	28	20	26
Lebanon	5	7	4	7	5	6	5	6	8	6
Morocco	35	110	70	65	40	35	60	45	100	50
Palestine	12	12	9	6	2	20	18	22	5	10
Syria	76	125	70	115	81	165	92	165	110	177
Tunisia	60	270	93	215	210	130	35	70	280	110
Turkey	40	200	40	170	70	175	65	140	79	145
Australia