Also known as maize, the value of globally exported corn decreased by an average -6.1% for all exporting countries since 2021 when corn shipments were valued at $51.9 billion.
From 2024 to 2025, the dollar amount paid for globally exported corn grew by 6.9% starting from $45.6 billion.
The 5 biggest corn exporters (United States of America, Brazil, Argentina, Ukraine and France) generated more than four-fifths (82.3%) of overall sales for the popular grain commodity in 2025.
Among continents, countries in North America sold the highest dollar worth of exported corn during 2025 with shipments valued at $19.5 billion or 40% of the worldwide total.
In second place at 32.5% were suppliers in Latin America excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean while 22.1% worth of the tasty grain originated from shippers in Europe.
Smaller percentages came from providers located in Asia (3.3%), Africa (2.1%), then Oceania (0.1%) led by Australia and New Zealand.
For research purposes, the 4-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefix for corn is 1005.
Corn Exports by Country
Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of corn during 2025.
- United States: US$18.9 billion (38.7% of total corn exports)
- Brazil: $8.6 billion (17.6%)
- Argentina: $6.5 billion (13.4%)
- Ukraine: $3.7 billion (7.6%)
- France: $2.4 billion (5%)
- Poland: $792.4 million (1.6%)
- South Africa: $759.9 million (1.6%)
- Romania: $718.2 million (1.5%)
- Canada: $601.4 million (1.2%)
- Paraguay: $596.6 million (1.2%)
- Hungary: $582.5 million (1.2%)
- Myanmar: $579.6 million (1.2%)
- Austria: $383.7 million (0.8%)
- Russia: $337.7 million (0.7%)
- India: $277 million (0.6%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 93.9% of globally exported corn in 2025.
Among the top exporters, the fastest-growing corn suppliers from 2024 to 2025 were: Paraguay (up 85.1%), India (up 48.2%), United States of America (up 31.6%), France (up 30.5%), Canada (up 23.3%) and Austria (up 11.3%).
Those countries that posted double-digit percent declines in their exported corn sales were: Russia (down -37.7% from 2024), Ukraine (down -26.9%), Hungary (down -21.9%), Romania (down -19.3%), Myanmar (down -16.2%) and South Africa (down -11.2%).
Searchable List of Corn Exporting Countries in 2025
The following 100 countries were responsible for 99.998% of total corn exports by value in 2025.
| Rank | Exporter | Corn Exports | 2024-5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | $18,878,401,000 | +31.6% |
| 2 | Brazil | $8,587,959,000 | +5% |
| 3 | Argentina | $6,515,221,000 | -0.5% |
| 4 | Ukraine | $3,707,092,000 | -26.9% |
| 5 | France | $2,431,415,000 | +30.5% |
| 6 | Poland | $792,363,000 | +1.9% |
| 7 | South Africa | $759,912,000 | -11.9% |
| 8 | Romania | $718,172,000 | -19.3% |
| 9 | Canada | $601,366,000 | +23.3% |
| 10 | Paraguay | $596,576,000 | +85.1% |
| 11 | Hungary | $582,484,000 | -21.9% |
| 12 | Myanmar | $579,633,000 | -16.2% |
| 13 | Austria | $383,743,000 | +11.3% |
| 14 | Russia | $337,707,000 | -37.7% |
| 15 | India | $277,027,000 | +48.2% |
| 16 | Germany | $258,986,000 | +32.3% |
| 17 | Croatia | $244,606,000 | -3.1% |
| 18 | Serbia | $235,566,000 | -51.2% |
| 19 | Türkiye | $201,308,000 | -27.5% |
| 20 | Slovenia | $170,906,000 | -40.9% |
| 21 | Vietnam | $149,516,000 | +27.6% |
| 22 | Slovakia | $128,416,000 | +20.1% |
| 23 | Thailand | $122,278,000 | +40.2% |
| 24 | Bulgaria | $119,047,000 | -40.1% |
| 25 | Spain | $115,358,000 | -5.8% |
| 26 | Tanzania | $112,697,000 | +36.7% |
| 27 | Italy | $110,195,000 | +30.8% |
| 28 | Pakistan | $109,449,000 | -62.2% |
| 29 | Zambia | $95,141,000 | +110.2% |
| 30 | Czech Republic | $88,060,000 | +39.7% |
| 31 | Netherlands | $72,169,000 | -27.5% |
| 32 | Laos | $69,065,000 | -38.8% |
| 33 | Belgium | $64,865,000 | +36% |
| 34 | Chile | $64,465,000 | -10.2% |
| 35 | United Kingdom | $57,456,000 | +37.6% |
| 36 | Moldova | $53,767,000 | -19.3% |
| 37 | Ireland | $37,302,000 | +16.4% |
| 38 | Kazakhstan | $30,814,000 | -20.2% |
| 39 | Portugal | $30,203,000 | -13.1% |
| 40 | Peru | $26,785,000 | -27.8% |
| 41 | Cambodia | $24,827,000 | -51.7% |
| 42 | Australia | $21,459,000 | -49.2% |
| 43 | Uganda | $20,020,000 | -68.5% |
| 44 | Mexico | $17,473,000 | -48.1% |
| 45 | Zimbabwe | $11,813,000 | -22.7% |
| 46 | Ivory Coast | $8,874,000 | +26.8% |
| 47 | Luxembourg | $8,775,000 | +11.1% |
| 48 | Greece | $8,557,000 | -17.7% |
| 49 | Lithuania | $8,368,000 | -37.9% |
| 50 | Guatemala | $8,294,000 | +52.4% |
| 51 | Bolivia | $7,747,000 | -5.5% |
| 52 | China | $7,132,000 | +2.1% |
| 53 | Georgia | $6,018,000 | +44.6% |
| 54 | Egypt | $5,877,000 | +67.2% |
| 55 | Colombia | $5,846,000 | +94.2% |
| 56 | Honduras | $5,501,000 | -45.7% |
| 57 | Indonesia | $4,929,000 | -70.1% |
| 58 | New Zealand | $4,879,000 | +32.5% |
| 59 | United Arab Emirates | $3,322,000 | -89.3% |
| 60 | Bosnia/Herzegovina | $3,215,000 | +11.9% |
| 61 | Mozambique | $2,928,000 | +64% |
| 62 | South Korea | $2,742,000 | +3204% |
| 63 | Kyrgyzstan | $2,498,000 | +34.7% |
| 64 | Denmark | $2,408,000 | +17.8% |
| 65 | Malaysia | $2,352,000 | -0.7% |
| 66 | Philippines | $2,327,000 | -52.7% |
| 67 | Latvia | $2,063,000 | -93.7% |
| 68 | Nicaragua | $2,042,000 | +30% |
| 69 | Burundi | $1,995,000 | +49775% |
| 70 | El Salvador | $1,729,000 | +117.8% |
| 71 | Sweden | $998,000 | -18.7% |
| 72 | Senegal | $995,000 | -41.7% |
| 73 | Dominican Republic | $879,000 | -51.9% |
| 74 | Ecuador | $843,000 | +255.7% |
| 75 | Switzerland | $774,000 | +14% |
| 76 | Belize | $728,000 | +39.5% |
| 77 | Mali | $535,000 | +101.9% |
| 78 | Kenya | $510,000 | -90% |
| 79 | Andorra | $487,000 | +24250% |
| 80 | Saudi Arabia | $447,000 | +22.5% |
| 81 | Nigeria | $428,000 | 0% |
| 82 | Syria | $370,000 | -47.4% |
| 83 | Taiwan | $250,000 | +16.8% |
| 84 | North Macedonia | $209,000 | -90% |
| 85 | Costa Rica | $203,000 | +35.3% |
| 86 | Singapore | $202,000 | +3.6% |
| 87 | Lebanon | $198,000 | -97.7% |
| 88 | Iran | $197,000 | -90.8% |
| 89 | Bangladesh | $171,000 | +25.7% |
| 90 | Yemen | $170,000 | -85.1% |
| 91 | Botswana | $168,000 | -52.8% |
| 92 | Ghana | $160,000 | 0% |
| 93 | Hong Kong | $131,000 | +227.5% |
| 94 | Iraq | $128,000 | +456.5% |
| 95 | Eswatini | $126,000 | +125% |
| 96 | Montenegro | $125,000 | -78.4% |
| 97 | Nepal | $111,000 | +484.2% |
| 98 | Belarus | $108,000 | +40.3% |
| 99 | Trinidad/Tobago | $93,000 | -53.5% |
| 100 | Estonia | $81,000 | +2.5% |
You can change the presentation order by clicking the triangle icon at the top of any of the above columns. Note that an entry of 0% in the right-most column means no 2024 data was available at time of article publication.
Expanding the scope to the top 100 corn exporters, the fastest-growing shippers of corn by value from 2024 to 2025 were Burundi (up 49,775%), Andorra (up 24,250%), South Korea (up 3,204%), Nepal (up 484.2%), Iraq (up 456.5%) and Ecuador (up 255.7%).
Countries Generating Highest Surpluses from Trading Corn
The following countries posted the highest positive net exports for corn during 2025. Investopedia defines net exports as the value of a country’s total exports minus the value of its total imports. Thus, the statistics below present the surplus between the value of each country’s corn exports and its import purchases for that same commodity.
- United States: US$18.6 billion (net export surplus up 32.5% since 2024)
- Brazil: $8.3 billion (up 4.9%)
- Argentina: $6.5 billion (down -0.3%)
- Ukraine: $3.6 billion (down -27.8%)
- France: $2.1 billion (up 35.5%)
- South Africa: $592 million (down -19.6%)
- Myanmar: $553.7 million (down -17.9%)
- Poland: $530.3 million (up 2.2%)
- Romania: $524.8 million (down -18.5%)
- Paraguay: $515.6 million (up 113.9%)
- Russia: $331.2 million (down -35%)
- Hungary: $323 million (down -41.3%)
- India: $199.1 million (reversing a -$47.9 million deficit)
- Croatia: $186.7 million (up 0.7%)
- Serbia: $163.2 million (down -59.6%)
The United States of America and Brazil earned the highest surpluses in the international trade of fresh corn. In turn, this positive cashflow confirms both countries’ strong competitive advantages for this specific product category.
Countries Incurring Greatest Deficits from Trading Corn
The following countries posted the highest negative net exports for corn during 2025. Investopedia defines net exports as the value of a country’s total exports minus the value of its total imports. Thus, the statistics below present the deficit between the value of each country’s corn import purchases and its exports for that same commodity.
- Mexico: -US$5.7 billion (net export deficit up 6.1% since 2024)
- Japan: -$4 billion (up 1.7%)
- Egypt: -$2.9 billion (up 28.3%)
- South Korea: -$2.8 billion (down -3.2%)
- Vietnam: -$2.4 billion (down -19.5%)
- Spain: -$2.2 billion (up 9.5%)
- Iran: -$2 billion (up 87.3%)
- Italy: -$1.84 billion (up 16.3%)
- Colombia: -$1.81 billion (up 15.1%)
- Netherlands: -$1.3 billion (up 12.1%)
- Saudi Arabia: -$1.25 billion (up 5.4%)
- Peru: -$1.17 billion (up 21.5%)
- Taiwan: -$1.09 billion (down -0.7%)
- Türkiye: -$1.09 billion (up 44.1%)
- Malaysia: -$1.07 billion (up 3.8%)
Highly populated Mexico incurred the highest deficit in the international trade of fresh corn. In turn, this negative cashflow highlights Mexico’s strong competitive disadvantage for this specific product category but also signals opportunities for corn-supplying countries that help satisfy powerful consumer demand.
Top 10 Exporters of Corn by Shipment Weight
The worldwide total of exported corn equaled 201 billion tons in 2025. That shipment weight reflects a -0.3% slowdown from 201.6 billion tons in 2024 but a 2.4% increase compared to 196.3 billion tons during 2021.
- United States: 82,155,666 tons (40.9% of global corn exports)
- Brazil: 40,978,228 tons (20.4%)
- Argentina: 31,160,838 tons (15.5%)
- Ukraine: 14,276,733 tons (7.1%)
- France: 6,097,274 tons (3%)
- Paraguay: 3,569,987 tons (1.8%)
- Poland: 3,157,566 tons (1.6%)
- South Africa: 3,047,084 tons (1.5%)
- Canada: 2,759,092 tons (1.4%)
- Myanmar: 1,927,349 tons (1%)
The top 10 corn exporters accounted for 94.1% of corn shipped by total tonnage in 2025.
Double-digit percent growth in terms of shipment weight from 2024 to 2025 was posted by exporters in Paraguay (up by 88.3%), France (up 49.6%), United States of America (up 31.3%) and Canada (up 19.3%).
Average Prices for Top Corn Exporters
Overall, the world’s average price for exported corn in 2025 was US$243 per ton. That dollar metric represents 7.5% in inflation compared to $226 per ton calculated for one year earlier in 2024.
Presented below are the average prices per ton for each of the world’s biggest corn exporters. This list is ordered by volume starting with countries shipping the greatest total tons.
- United States: US$230 per ton (up 0.4% from 2024)
- Brazil: $210 per ton (up 1.9%)
- Argentina: $209 per ton (up 2.5%)
- Ukraine: $260 per ton (up 52%)
- France: $399 per ton (down -12.7%)
- Poland: $251 per ton (up 9.1%)
- South Africa: $249 per ton (down -19.2%)
- Romania: $380 per ton (no change)
- Canada: $218 per ton (up 3.3%)
- Paraguay: $167 per ton (down -1.8%)
The most expensive average prices among the above major corn suppliers are charged by France, Romania, Ukraine and Poland costing well above the global average of $243 per ton.
The least costly top sources were the Paraguay and Argentina.
Year over year, the greatest gainers for average prices originated from Ukraine (up 52% from 2024), Poland (up 9.1%) and Canada (up 3.3%).
Average prices declined the greatest for corn exported from South Africa (down -19.2% from 2024) and France (down -12.7%).
Major Corn Exporting Companies
Below are corn-processing conglomerates that represent large players in the global corn market. Shown within parenthesis is the country where the company is headquartered.
- Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (United States)
- Bunge Limited (United States)
- Cargill, Inc (United States)
- Ingredion Incorporated (United States)
- Louis Dreyfus Holding B.V. (Netherlands)
- Mriya Agro Holding (Ukraine)
- SLC Agrícola (Brazil)
- Syngenta AG (Switzerland)
- Tate & Lyle Public Limited Company (United Kingdom)
- Vanguarda Agro (Brazil)
See also Corn Imports by Country, Wheat Exports by Country, Soya Beans Exports by Country and Top Sweet Pepper and Chili Pepper Exports
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