The overall value of exported pineapples increased by an average 6.2% for all exporting countries since 2018 when pineapples shipped worldwide were valued at $2.08 billion.
Year over year, the value of globally exported pineapples gained 2.8% compared to $2.14 billion during 2021.
The top 5 exporters were Costa Rica, Philippines, Netherlands, Belgium and the United States of America. Collectively, that quintet of leading suppliers generated nearly four-fifths (78.6%) of all globally exported pineapples in 2022 by dollar value.
Among continents, Latin America excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean generated the highest dollar worth in international sales of pineapples during 2022 with shipments valued at $1.2 billion or over half (54.2%) of the worldwide total. In second place were exporters in Asia at 19.1% while another 18% of total shipments of the sweet fruit originated from European suppliers.
Smaller percentages came from suppliers in North America (5.9%), Africa (3%) then Oceania (0.01%) mostly Australia and New Zealand.
For research purposes, the 6-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefix is 080430 for fresh or dried pineapples.
Pineapples Exports by Country
Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of pineapples during 2022.
- Costa Rica: US$1 billion (47.1% of exported pineapples)
- Philippines: $333 million (15.1%)
- Netherlands: $134.3 million (6.1%)
- Belgium: $117 million (5.3%)
- United States: $108.4 million (4.9%)
- Ecuador: $58 million (2.6%)
- Honduras: $55.1 million (2.5%)
- Spain: $42.4 million (1.9%)
- Taiwan: $26.7 million (1.2%)
- Thailand: $26 million (1.2%)
- Portugal: $23.6 million (1.1%)
- Italy: $23.3 million (1.1%)
- Ghana: $22.1 million (1%)
- France: $20.2 million (0.9%)
- Guatemala: $19.7 million (0.9%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 92.9% of pineapples exported in 2022.
Among the top exporters, the fastest-growing pineapples exporters from 2021 to 2022 were: Thailand (up 115.1%), Guatemala (up 82.8%), France (up 76.9%) and Spain (up 42.8%).
Four major suppliers recorded declines in their export sales of pineapples, namely the Netherlands (down -29.4% from 2021), Taiwan (down -26.6%), Ghana (down -26%) and Costa Rica (down -0.3%).
Countries Generating Highest Trade Surpluses from Pineapples
The following countries posted the highest positive net exports for pineapples during 2022. 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 pineapples exports and its import purchases for that same commodity.
- Costa Rica: US$1 billion (net export surplus down -0.3% since 2021)
- Philippines: $333 million (up 17.5%)
- Ecuador: $58 million (up 14.8%)
- Honduras: $54.6 million (up 37.1%)
- Thailand: $25.9 million (up 115.6%)
- Taiwan: $25.4 million (down -27.7%)
- Ghana: $21.9 million (down -25.5%)
- Guatemala: $19.6 million (up 82.6%)
- Mexico: $18.6 million (up 8.9%)
- Kenya: $16.9 million (up 3.3%)
- Ivory Coast: $14.3 million (down -6.4%)
- Panama: $6.6 million (up 19.3%)
- Malaysia: $4.8 million (up 1.4%)
- India: $4.4 million (up 7.5%)
- South Africa: $4.2 million (up 56.9%)
World leader Costa Rica generated the highest surplus in the international trade of pineapples. In turn, this positive cashflow confirms Costa Rica’s strong competitive advantage for this specific product category.
Countries Causing Worst Trade Deficits from Pineapples
The following countries posted the highest negative net exports for pineapples during 2022. 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 pineapples import purchases and its exports for that same commodity.
- United States: -US$778.7 million (net export deficit up 9.4% since 2021)
- mainland China: -$163.6 million (up 10.8%)
- Japan: -$143.2 million (down -5.9%)
- Germany: -$112.7 million (up 9%)
- Canada: -$109.8 million (up 6.6%)
- France: -$107.2 million (down -9.9%)
- Italy: -$95.9 million (up 0.01%)
- Spain: -$92.3 million (down -14%)
- United Kingdom: -$75 million (down -0.6%)
- South Korea: -$62.2 million (up 18.2%)
- Russia: -$39.3 million (down -32%)
- Portugal: -$34.3 million (up 22.5%)
- United Arab Emirates: -$28.5 million (up 75.5%)
- Belgium: -$25.4 million (down -26.5%)
- Switzerland: -$24.1 million (down -2%)
The United States of America registered the highest deficit in the international trade of pineapples. In turn, this negative cashflow confirms America’s strong competitive disadvantage for this specific product category but also signals opportunities for pineapples-supplying countries that help satisfy the powerful demand from US consumers.
Pineapples Exporting Companies
Below are global pineapples-related businesses that represent players in the worldwide pineapples market trade including canning operations and distributors as well as agricultural pineapple growers. Shown within parenthesis is the country where the company is headquartered.
- Agricola Industrial La Lydia (Costa Rica)
- Del Monte (United States)
- Dole Food Company (United States)
- Cocosong Food Industries (Malaysia)
- Tipco Foods PCL (Thailand)
- Fairteck Holding (Singapore)
- Guangdong Harvest Canned Foods (China)
- Billy Farming Industry (United States)
- Ruby Pearl E-shop (Philippines)
- Malool Tropical Foods Limited (India)
Searchable List of Pineapples Exporting Countries in 2022
The top 100 countries or territories in the database below generated 99.999% of international sales for pineapples during 2022.
| Rank | Exporter | Pineapple Exports | 2021-2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Costa Rica | $1,038,282,000 | -0.3% |
| 2. | Philippines | $333,011,000 | +17.4% |
| 3. | Netherlands | $134,331,000 | -29.4% |
| 4. | Belgium | $116,991,000 | +19.8% |
| 5. | United States | $108,411,000 | +10.6% |
| 6. | Ecuador | $58,013,000 | +14.7% |
| 7. | Honduras | $55,068,000 | +38.2% |
| 8. | Spain | $42,424,000 | +42.8% |
| 9. | Taiwan | $26,653,000 | -26.6% |
| 10. | Thailand | $25,953,000 | +115.1% |
| 11. | Portugal | $23,582,000 | +13.7% |
| 12. | Italy | $23,275,000 | +13% |
| 13. | Ghana | $22,128,000 | -26% |
| 14. | France | $20,178,000 | +76.9% |
| 15. | Guatemala | $19,659,000 | +82.8% |
| 16. | Mexico | $19,595,000 | +14.8% |
| 17. | Kenya | $17,007,000 | +3.4% |
| 18. | China | $15,897,000 | +434.4% |
| 19. | Ivory Coast | $14,349,000 | -6.7% |
| 20. | Germany | $10,725,000 | -36.2% |
| 21. | Panama | $6,576,000 | +19% |
| 22. | Malaysia | $5,340,000 | -0.6% |
| 23. | Poland | $4,992,000 | -31.4% |
| 24. | South Africa | $4,358,000 | +51.3% |
| 25. | India | $4,354,000 | +7.5% |
| 26. | Indonesia | $3,721,000 | -25.9% |
| 27. | Peru | $3,603,000 | -8.2% |
| 28. | Dominican Republic | $3,461,000 | -31.8% |
| 29. | Brazil | $3,380,000 | +8.5% |
| 30. | Colombia | $3,048,000 | -40% |
| 31. | Greece | $2,929,000 | +40.5% |
| 32. | United Kingdom | $2,537,000 | +6.5% |
| 33. | Austria | $2,475,000 | -11.3% |
| 34. | Lithuania | $2,334,000 | +13.4% |
| 35. | Hungary | $2,249,000 | -23.2% |
| 36. | Cameroon | $2,113,000 | +725.4% |
| 37. | Mauritius | $2,077,000 | -32.3% |
| 38. | Sri Lanka | $1,813,000 | -28% |
| 39. | Dominica | $1,337,000 | +735.6% |
| 40. | Slovakia | $1,237,000 | -42.2% |
| 41. | Croatia | $1,140,000 | +56.6% |
| 42. | Paraguay | $1,110,000 | +753.8% |
| 43. | Togo | $1,012,000 | -6.8% |
| 44. | Canada | $938,000 | +1.5% |
| 45. | Slovenia | $921,000 | -8.4% |
| 46. | Uganda | $883,000 | -66.5% |
| 47. | Türkiye | $844,000 | -37.1% |
| 48. | Latvia | $810,000 | +39.9% |
| 49. | Czech Republic | $718,000 | +5.9% |
| 50. | Denmark | $612,000 | +13.5% |
| 51. | Cambodia | $604,000 | -4.7% |
| 52. | Ireland | $516,000 | -26.9% |
| 53. | Hong Kong | $464,000 | +42.8% |
| 54. | Luxembourg | $459,000 | -5.6% |
| 55. | Vietnam | $452,000 | -34.9% |
| 56. | Tanzania | $422,000 | -49% |
| 57. | Benin | $354,000 | +10.6% |
| 58. | Kazakhstan | $196,000 | -26.6% |
| 59. | United Arab Emirates | $170,000 | -99% |
| 60. | Singapore | $165,000 | +24.1% |
| 61. | Sierra Leone | $142,000 | -25.3% |
| 62. | Russia | $114,000 | -85.3% |
| 63. | Sweden | $112,000 | -72% |
| 64. | Bulgaria | $88,000 | +95.6% |
| 65. | Mozambique | $73,000 | +9% |
| 66. | Finland | $72,000 | +1.4% |
| 67. | Georgia | $69,000 | +46.8% |
| 68. | New Zealand | $59,000 | +436.4% |
| 69. | Serbia | $59,000 | +110.7% |
| 70. | Romania | $53,000 | -34.6% |
| 71. | Australia | $52,000 | +300% |
| 72. | Morocco | $50,000 | +31.6% |
| 73. | Angola | $49,000 | +157.9% |
| 74. | Rwanda | $48,000 | -76.8% |
| 75. | Norway | $38,000 | +46.2% |
| 76. | Nicaragua | $34,000 | +25.9% |
| 77. | Bangladesh | $33,000 | +37.5% |
| 78. | Switzerland | $32,000 | 0% |
| 79. | Trinidad/Tobago | $30,000 | +130.8% |
| 80. | Jordan | $23,000 | -65.7% |
| 81. | Chile | $20,000 | +33.3% |
| 82. | Guinea | $19,000 | -85% |
| 83. | South Korea | $16,000 | +100% |
| 84. | Estonia | $14,000 | +100% |
| 85. | Saudi Arabia | $13,000 | 0% |
| 86. | Armenia | $11,000 | +120% |
| 87. | Bosnia/Herzegovina | $11,000 | -45% |
| 88. | St Pierre/Miquelon | $10,000 | 0% |
| 89. | Uzbekistan | $10,000 | 0% |
| 90. | Venezuela | $9,000 | 0% |
| 91. | Japan | $9,000 | -60.9% |
| 92. | Bolivia | $7,000 | -87.5% |
| 93. | Bahrain | $6,000 | -84.2% |
| 94. | Iceland | $6,000 | +100% |
| 95. | Kyrgyzstan | $6,000 | 0% |
| 96. | Uruguay | $5,000 | +25% |
| 97. | Fiji | $5,000 | +400% |
| 98. | Ethiopia | $4,000 | 0% |
| 99. | North Macedonia | $4,000 | +33.3% |
| 100. | Egypt | $4,000 | -90.9% |
Expanding the scope to including the top 100 shippers, the fastest-growing exporters of pineapples were Paraguay (up 753.8% from 2021), Dominica (up 735.6%), Cameroon (725.4%), New Zealand (up 436.4%) and mainland China (up 434.4%).
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An entry of 0% in the right-most column means that no 2021 data is available.
See also Pineapples Imports by Country, Bananas Exports by Country, Apples Exports by Country and Oranges Exports by Country
Research Sources:
Agricola Industrial La Lydia, The Real Golden Pineapple Costa Rica. Accessed on August 4, 2023
Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Field Listing: Exports – Commodities. Accessed on August 4, 2023
Forbes Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on August 4, 2023
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on August 4, 2023
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on August 4, 2023
List of Companies In Worldwide, List of Pineapple Companies. Accessed on August 4, 2023
