India vs South Korea: Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture

India
12.09 million metric tons
in 2024
South Korea
2.28 million metric tons
in 2024
India rank
3rd
South Korea rank
6th

Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture over time

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How they compare

India currently reports 12.09 million metric tons against 2.28 million metric tons in South Korea, a difference of 9.81 million metric tons.

That makes India's figure about 5.3 times South Korea's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 65 shared years of data; in 1960 it was India ahead.

India ranks 3rd and South Korea ranks 6th 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
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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.