Brazil vs Japan: Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture

Brazil
882,935 metric tons
in 2024
Japan
802,045 metric tons
in 2024
Brazil rank
14th
Japan rank
15th

Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture over time

  • Brazil
  • Japan
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How they compare

Brazil currently reports 882,935 metric tons against 802,045 metric tons in Japan, a difference of 80,890 metric tons.

That makes Brazil's figure about 1.1 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 65 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Japan ahead.

Brazil ranks 14th and Japan ranks 15th of 215 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture
Unit
metric tons
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
215 places, 12,849 data points, 1960–2024
Last refreshed

Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Capture fishery production is the volume of wild fish catches landed for all commercial, industrial, recreational and subsistence purposes.