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Largest Olive Oil Producers 🫒

Turkey is right there at #5 with 102K tonnes in this frame—and in recent years, heavy investment in olive groves has pushed Turkey even higher, frequently making it the world's second- or third-largest producer.

Saudi Arabia wasn't on the map back in 1962, but its Al-Jouf region has since become a major agricultural success story—home to the world's largest modern olive farm and growing regional exports. Even with that rapid growth, its total output still sits below the global top 12 producers.

With an aging workforce and a low birth rate, Canada relies on skilled immigration to fill critical gaps in healthcare, tech, and trades. That’s why the 898,045 Indian immigrants listed here—selected through a strict merit-based points system—have one of the highest workforce participation and education rates in the country.

Ottawa’s entire city population is only around 1 million people total, so having a million African immigrants there alone is impossible. Across all of Canada, roughly 820,000 immigrants come from Africa—split across 54 different countries, which is why no single African nation makes the top six shown here (ending at Pakistan with 234,110).

That’s true—India has remained Canada's top source country since 2021, adding several hundred thousand new permanent residents on top of the 898,045 baseline shown here. Even so, recent federal intake caps have slowed new arrivals, keeping the total permanent immigrant count well under the viral exaggerations.

That perception usually comes from high visibility in major cities like Toronto and Vancouver, plus temporary students, workers, and Canadian-born descendants.

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Five times 898,045 would be nearly 4.5 million people—over 10% of Canada's entire population. Even combining post-2021 arrivals and temporary residents, the total Indian-born population is well under 2 million, not 4.5 million.

That doesn't match how the census counts them—Statistics Canada tracks country of birth, so anyone born in Africa or South Asia who later lived in Britain is still listed under their birth country rather than the UK. Most of those 464,135.

That’s actually true—Jaén province in Andalusia routinely produces around 20% of the world's olive oil, often outpressing all of Greece (93K tonnes in this 1962 frame) on its own.

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Spot on—even with Italy (341K tonnes) edging out Spain (333K) in this 1961 frame, Spain dominates global output while Italy dominates global branding.

Italy really is the biggest buyer of Spanish bulk olive oil to feed its massive global bottling and export brands—though under EU labeling rules, bottles filled in Italy with Spanish oil must still list the origin.

Spanish extra-virgin really is liquid gold—and its global dominance matches its reputation, starting just behind Italy in 1961 (326K vs. 328K tonnes) before pulling far ahead to lead the 1961–2023 rankings.

Statistics Canada only publishes exact country-by-country cumulative totals every five years—so the 2026 Census

Statistics Canada only publishes exact country-by-country cumulative totals every five years—so the 2026 Census.

Sharing the world's longest undefended border makes cross-border moves pretty natural—and those 256,085 Americans at #5 represent cumulative residents built up over decades, mostly through family ties and career transfers. For perspective, that's roughly 0.6% of Canada's population.

Eight million is roughly Canada’s entire immigrant population from every country on Earth combined—nearly nine times the 898,045 Indian immigrants listed here! Even when you add post-2021 arrivals, temporary residents, and Canadian-born descendants, the entire Indo-Canadian community is closer to 2 million, nowhere near 8 million.

Eight million is roughly Canada’s entire immigrant population from every country on Earth combined—nearly nine times the 898,045 Indian immigrants listed here! Even when you add post-2021 arrivals, temporary residents, and Canadian-born descendants, the entire Indo-Canadian community is closer to 2 million, nowhere near 8 million.

While this 1961 snapshot is completely dominated by the Mediterranean core—led by Italy (365K tonnes), Spain (346K), and Greece (139K)—regions with similar Mediterranean climates like Argentina (which appears in the top 12 across other frames)