The value of flower bouquets and related exports expanded by an average 29.9% for all exporting countries from 5 years earlier in 2020 when comparable shipments were valued at $8.7 billion.
Year over year, the value of globally exported flower bouquets grew by 6.3% compared to $10.6 billion during 2023.
The 5 biggest exporters of flower bouquets are the Netherlands, Colombia, Ecuador, Kenya and Ethiopia. Collectively, that cohort of major flower suppliers generated 86.2% of globally exported flower bouquet-related products.
Among continents, suppliers based in European countries sold the highest dollar value worth of exported flower bouquets during 2024 with shipments amounting to $5.9 billion or 52.2% of the worldwide total. Providers in Latin America excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean generated another 30.7% worth, trailed by exporters located in Africa at another 10%.
Smaller percentages came from sources in Asia (5.7%), North America (1.4%) then Oceania (0.1%) mostly New Zealand and Australia.
For research purposes, the 4-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefix is 0603 for cut flowers and flower buds suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes.
Flower Bouquet Exports by Country
Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of flower bouquets during 2024.
- Netherlands: US$5.3 billion (47.4% of exported flower bouquets)
- Colombia: $2.3 billion (20.8%)
- Ecuador: $1 billion (9%)
- Kenya: $722.9 million (6.4%)
- Ethiopia: $286.1 million (2.5%)
- mainland China: $179 million (1.6%)
- Italy: $148.7 million (1.3%)
- Canada: $113.8 million (1%)
- Spain: $81.7 million (0.7%)
- Malaysia: $78.1 million (0.7%)
- Vietnam: $75 million (0.7%)
- Thailand: $71 million (0.6%)
- Belgium: $70.5 million (0.6%)
- South Africa: $60.1 million (0.5%)
- Israel: $52.1 million (0.5%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 94.5% of globally exported flower bouquets in 2024.
Among the top exporters, the fastest-growing flower bouquets exporters from 2023 to 2024 were: Spain (up 27.7%), Ethiopia (up 23.8%), mainland China (up 17.1%) and Colombia (up 12.9%).
A pair of leading suppliers posted declines in their exported flower bouquets sales, namely Israel (down -10.5% from 2023) and South Africa (down -2.9%).
Searchable List of Flower Bouquet Exporting Countries in 2024
The top 100 exporting nations documented in the automated database below generated 99.999% of flower bouquet-related goods exported in 2024.
| Rank | Exporter | Flower Exports | 2023-4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Netherlands | $5,342,777,000 | +7.6% |
| 2. | Colombia | $2,347,665,000 | +12.9% |
| 3. | Ecuador | $1,015,954,000 | +2.9% |
| 4. | Kenya | $722,930,000 | +8.3% |
| 5. | Ethiopia | $286,139,000 | +23.8% |
| 6. | China | $179,013,000 | +17.1% |
| 7. | Italy | $148,665,000 | +1.9% |
| 8. | Canada | $113,841,000 | +4.2% |
| 9. | Spain | $81,664,000 | +27.7% |
| 10. | Malaysia | $78,120,000 | +3.2% |
| 11. | Vietnam | $75,025,000 | +4.4% |
| 12. | Thailand | $70,997,000 | +2.9% |
| 13. | Belgium | $70,532,000 | +4% |
| 14. | South Africa | $60,143,000 | -2.9% |
| 15. | Israel | $52,121,000 | -10.5% |
| 16. | Germany | $50,151,000 | -16.2% |
| 17. | Türkiye | $49,571,000 | +0.6% |
| 18. | Poland | $40,216,000 | +60% |
| 19. | Taiwan | $39,593,000 | -3.4% |
| 20. | Guatemala | $34,819,000 | +6.5% |
| 21. | Armenia | $34,075,000 | +74.3% |
| 22. | Costa Rica | $33,889,000 | -10.9% |
| 23. | United Kingdom | $28,777,000 | +11.1% |
| 24. | France | $24,509,000 | -7.4% |
| 25. | India | $23,848,000 | -0.1% |
| 26. | Mexico | $22,021,000 | -59.5% |
| 27. | United States | $20,811,000 | -1.5% |
| 28. | Latvia | $15,257,000 | -54.3% |
| 29. | Chile | $14,938,000 | +63.4% |
| 30. | Portugal | $14,525,000 | +16.9% |
| 31. | Morocco | $11,634,000 | +47.7% |
| 32. | Czech Republic | $11,450,000 | +13.7% |
| 33. | Japan | $10,865,000 | -10.8% |
| 34. | Peru | $10,195,000 | +10.6% |
| 35. | Tanzania | $9,280,000 | +11% |
| 36. | Slovakia | $9,008,000 | +118.2% |
| 37. | New Zealand | $8,698,000 | +0.6% |
| 38. | Kazakhstan | $7,730,000 | +190.9% |
| 39. | Uganda | $7,348,000 | +91.1% |
| 40. | Denmark | $6,995,000 | -9.3% |
| 41. | Zambia | $6,917,000 | +6.3% |
| 42. | Rwanda | $6,903,000 | +135% |
| 43. | Hungary | $6,741,000 | +41.6% |
| 44. | Lithuania | $6,125,000 | -74% |
| 45. | Egypt | $5,887,000 | -52.6% |
| 46. | Ireland | $5,402,000 | +26.5% |
| 47. | Indonesia | $4,908,000 | +37% |
| 48. | Austria | $4,840,000 | +17.8% |
| 49. | Zimbabwe | $4,188,000 | +17.7% |
| 50. | Australia | $2,483,000 | -13.1% |
| 51. | Uzbekistan | $2,296,000 | +35.1% |
| 52. | Luxembourg | $1,791,000 | -41.8% |
| 53. | Hong Kong | $1,772,000 | +169.3% |
| 54. | Pakistan | $1,761,000 | +9.2% |
| 55. | Singapore | $1,715,000 | -2.4% |
| 56. | Romania | $1,579,000 | +114.2% |
| 57. | South Korea | $1,423,000 | -36.5% |
| 58. | Croatia | $1,251,000 | +40.1% |
| 59. | Nigeria | $856,000 | -99.4% |
| 60. | Greece | $814,000 | -3.3% |
| 61. | Iran | $723,000 | -74.4% |
| 62. | Philippines | $705,000 | -1.8% |
| 63. | Estonia | $689,000 | +556.2% |
| 64. | Sweden | $684,000 | +564.1% |
| 65. | Russia | $640,000 | +59.2% |
| 66. | Finland | $618,000 | -9.1% |
| 67. | Ivory Coast | $484,000 | -41.2% |
| 68. | Saudi Arabia | $436,000 | -59% |
| 69. | Belarus | $397,000 | 17.91 |
| 70. | Lebanon | $388,000 | -72.4% |
| 71. | Ghana | $372,000 | -81.4% |
| 72. | Mauritius | $313,000 | -79.8% |
| 73. | Bulgaria | $283,000 | -54.1% |
| 74. | Cameroon | $246,000 | -10.5% |
| 75. | Azerbaijan | $246,000 | -22.6% |
| 76. | Sri Lanka | $236,000 | +4.9% |
| 77. | Ukraine | $223,000 | -73% |
| 78. | Laos | $194,000 | -36% |
| 79. | Tunisia | $186,000 | +106.7% |
| 80. | Serbia | $135,000 | -42.1% |
| 81. | Senegal | $130,000 | -55.2% |
| 82. | United Arab Emirates | $128,000 | -89% |
| 83. | Brazil | $80,000 | -61.9% |
| 84. | Kuwait | $58,000 | 0% |
| 85. | Burkina Faso | $57,000 | +62.9% |
| 86. | Slovenia | $52,000 | +67.7% |
| 87. | Switzerland | $44,000 | +29.4% |
| 88. | Dominican Republic | $43,000 | +104.8% |
| 89. | Nicaragua | $39,000 | -78.8% |
| 90. | Georgia | $35,000 | +40% |
| 91. | Panama | $34,000 | +54.5% |
| 92. | Madagascar | $28,000 | -66.7% |
| 93. | Marshall Islands | $25,000 | +177.8% |
| 94. | Kyrgyzstan | $24,000 | +700% |
| 95. | Fiji | $23,000 | -61% |
| 96. | Myanmar | $21,000 | -27.6% |
| 97. | Saint Lucia | $19,000 | -45.7% |
| 98. | Suriname | $17,000 | 0% |
| 99. | Bosnia/Herzegovina | $17,000 | 0% |
| 100. | Guinea | $13,000 | +1200% |
Expanding the scope to the 100 leading flower exporters, the fastest-growing suppliers of flowers on international markets were Estonia (up 1,791% compared to 2023), Guinea (up 1,200%), Kyrgyzstan (up 700%), Sweden (up 564.1%) then Estonia (up 556.2%).
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An entry of 0% in the right-most column means that no 2023 data was available.
Average Prices for Flower Bouquet Exporters
On average, worldwide prices for exported flower bouquets fell by -9.3% from $11,353 per ton in 2023 to the $10,301 unit price for 2024.
Among the exporters of cut flowers and flower buds suitable for bouquets or ornamental purposes, the following 20 countries report their statistics by shipment weight in tons. Countries like Canada and the United States report their average unit prices per unit, not tons.
The top 20 exporters below are listed in order ranked by highest value per ton for international flower sales.
- Luxembourg: US$358,200 per ton of exported flowers (down -6.9% from 2023)
- Japan: $27,859 per ton (up 10.7%)
- Fiji: $23,000 per ton (down -61%)
- Chile: $21,219 per ton (up 7.7%)
- Mauritius: $18,412 per ton (down -30%)
- Denmark: $17,465 per ton (up 13%)
- Slovenia: $17,333 per ton (down -44.1%)
- Ireland: $17,259 per ton (up 172.4%)
- Panama: $17,000 per ton (down -22.7%)
- New Zealand: $16,599 per ton (up 0.4%)
- Austria: $16,133 per ton (up 33.1%)
- Estonia: $15,659 per ton (down -10.5%)
- Taiwan: $15,199 per ton (up 6%)
- Switzerland: $14,667 per ton (down -13.7%)
- France: $13,248 per ton (up 15%)
- Marshall Islands: $12,500 per ton (up 241,213%)
- Somalia: $12,000 per ton (2023 data unavailable)
- Israel: $11,175 per ton (down -18.3%)
- Philippines: $10,846 per ton (up 28.4%)
- Egypt: $10,762 per ton (down -15.6%)
The strongest inflation for the listed exporters of flower bouquets and related goods were posted by the Marshall Islands (up 241,213% from 2023), Ireland (up 172.4%), Austria (up 33.1%), Philippines (up 28.4%) and France (up 15%).
The most economical 20 exporters are presented below.
- Niger: US$83 per ton of exported flowers (2023 data unavailable)
- Nicaragua: $187 per ton (down -3.1% from 2023)
- Myanmar: $382 per ton (down -47.3%)
- Suriname: $515 per ton (2023 data unavailable)
- Mali: $545 per ton (up 303.7%)
- Botswana: $1,000 per ton (2023 data unavailable)
- Gabon: $1,000 per ton (2023 data unavailable)
- Kuwait: $1,115 per ton (2023 data unavailable)
- Burkina Faso: $1,213 per ton (up 101.2%)
- Guatemala: $1,458 per ton (up 3.8%)
- Guyana: $1,500 per ton (2023 data unavailable)
- Georgia: $1,750 per ton (down -44%)
- Zimbabwe: $1,789 per ton (up 6.5%)
- Bulgaria: $1,887 per ton (down -24%)
- Laos: $2,064 per ton (up 343.9%)
- Saint Lucia: $2,111 per ton (2023 data unavailable)
- Ivory Coast: $2,327 per ton (down -8.4%)
- Pakistan: $2,400 per ton (up 19.8%)
- Dominican Republic: $2,529 per ton (up 104.8%)
- Senegal: $2,600 per ton (up 3.1%)
- Serbia: $2,700 per ton (down -11.9%)
- mainland China: $2,751 per ton (down -11.8%)
- India: $2,856 per ton (up 6.5%)
Double-digit percentage declines for the relatively low-cost exporters belong to those in Myanmar also called Burma (down -47.3% from 2023), Georgia (down -44%), Bulgaria (down -24%), Serbia (down -11.9%) and mainland China (down -11.8%).
Countries Generating Biggest Surpluses Trading Flowers
The following countries posted the highest positive net exports for cut flowers suitable for bouquets during 2024. 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 flower bouquet exports and its import purchases for that same commodity.
- Netherlands: US$4.1 billion (net export surplus up 7.8% since 2023)
- Colombia: $2.3 billion (up 13%)
- Ecuador: $1 billion (up 2.9%)
- Kenya: $722.9 million (up 8.3%)
- Ethiopia: $286.1 million (up 23.8%)
- China: $126.7 million (up 44%)
- Malaysia: $58 million (down -1.8%)
- South Africa: $56.5 million (down -3.1%)
- Israel: $45 million (down -18%)
- Vietnam: $43.9 million (down -0.2%)
- Türkiye: $41.9 million (down -5.5%)
- Taiwan: $35.3 million (down -3.9%)
- Guatemala: $34.7 million (up 7.1%)
- Armenia: $33.3 million (up 76.3%)
- Costa Rica: $33.3 million (down -11.4%)
True to its historical image as a tulip producer, the Netherlands serves as the home country with the highest surplus in the international trade of cut flowers suitable for bouquets. In turn, this positive cashflow confirms the strong competitive advantage that Netherlands has for this specific product category.
Countries Incurring Worst Deficits Trading Flowers
The following countries posted the highest negative net exports for cut flowers suitable for bouquets during 2024. 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 flower bouquet import purchases and its exports for that same commodity.
- United States: -US$2.7 billion (net export deficit up 4.9% since 2023)
- Germany: -$1.2 billion (down -1.4%)
- United Kingdom: -$783 million (up 6.3%)
- Russia: -$379.6 million (up 15.1%)
- France: -$354.4 million (down -1.1%)
- Japan: -$301.4 million (down -2.5%)
- Switzerland: -$211.2 million (up 3.3%)
- Poland: -$209.2 million (up 12.5%)
- Czech Republic: -$130 million (up 9.2%)
- Austria: -$114.5 million (up 7.3%)
- Romania: -$114.2 million (up 26.5%)
- Denmark: -$112.3 million (down -2.2%)
- Italy: -$111.8 million (down -3.4%)
- Saudi Arabia: -$105.5 million (down -2.5%)
- United Arab Emirates: -$98 million (up 26.3%)
The United States of America and Germany incurred billion-dollar plus deficits when it comes to the international trade of cut flowers suitable for bouquets. In turn, this negative cashflow highlights both countries’ strong competitive disadvantages for this specific product category but also signals opportunities for flower bouquet-supplying countries that help satisfy the powerful demand from American and German consumers.
Flower Bouquet Importing Companies
According to global trade intelligence firm Zepol, the following companies are examples of multinational cut flower buyers.
- Almacenes Vaca (Mexico)
- Hosley International (United States)
- San Antonio Imports (Mexico)
- Viveres El Triunfo (Mexico)
- WalMart (United States)
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Forbes Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on August 7, 2025
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