Pumpkin exports by country totaled US$1.32 billion in 2019, up by 11.4% for all pumpkin shippers over the five-year period starting in 2015. The value of globally exported pumpkins fell by -1.2% from 2018 to 2019.
Among continents, suppliers in European countries accounted for the highest dollar worth of exported pumpkin during 2019 with shipments valued at $619.3 million or approaching half (46.9%) of the global total. In second place were North American exporters at 36% well ahead of the 7% worldwide shipments of pumpkins originating from Asia. Smaller percentages came from Africa (3.9%), Oceania (3.8%) led by New Zealand, and Latin America (2.5%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean.
For research purposes, the 6-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefix is 070993 for pumpkins including other types of squash and gourds.
Pumpkin Exports by Country
Countries
Below are the 15 countries that sold the highest dollar value worth of exported pumpkins during 2019.
- Spain: US$414.1 million (31.3% of total exported pumpkins)
- Mexico: $398.2 million (30.1%)
- Netherlands: $61.5 million (4.6%)
- United States: $56.8 million (4.3%)
- Turkey: $48.2 million (3.6%)
- New Zealand: $41.1 million (3.1%)
- Morocco: $38.5 million (2.9%)
- Italy: $37.6 million (2.8%)
- France: $36.5 million (2.8%)
- Portugal: $25.5 million (1.9%)
- China: $22.3 million (1.7%)
- Canada: $20.7 million (1.6%)
- Germany: $11.2 million (0.8%)
- South Africa: $9 million (0.7%)
- Belgium: $8.9 million (0.7%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 93.1% of globally exported pumpkins in 2019.
Among the top exporters, the fastest-growing exporters of pumpkins since 2015 were: China (up 121.9%), South Africa (up 86.2%), Morocco (up 83.8%) and Portugal (up 63%).
Those countries that posted declines in their international sales of pumpkins were led by: Belgium (down -53.6%), Netherlands (down -35.3%), Italy (down -30.6%), United States (down -8.2%) and France (down -1.3%).
Advantages
The following countries posted the highest positive net exports for pumpkins during 2019. 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 exported pumpkins and its import purchases for that same commodity.
- Mexico: US$397.7 million (net export surplus up 23.6% since 2015)
- Spain: $389.7 million (up 8.5%)
- Turkey: $48.1 million (up 49.2%)
- New Zealand: $39.3 million (down -2.8%)
- Morocco: $38.5 million (up 83.8%)
- Portugal: $15.6 million (up 183.1%)
- China: $15.4 million (up 68.6%)
- Honduras: $8.6 million (up 188.9%)
- South Africa: $8.4 million (up 114.9%)
- Costa Rica: $6.2 million (up 13.8%)
- Dominican Republic: $5 million (up 100.6%)
- Italy: $4.3 million (down -85.7%)
- Australia: $3.5 million (up 52.3%)
- Tonga: $3.2 million (up 0.8%)
- Panama: $2.9 million (up 10.6%)
Overtaking Spain in 2019, Mexico generated the highest surplus in the international trade of pumpkin. In turn, this positive cashflow confirms strong Mexican and Spanish competitive advantages for this specific product category.
Opportunities
The following countries posted the highest negative net exports for pumpkins during 2019. 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 imported pumpkin purchases and its exports for that same commodity.
- United States: -US$381.8 million (net export deficit up 35.1% since 2015)
- France: -$129.3 million (down -11.7%)
- Germany: -$123 million (up 1.7%)
- United Kingdom: -$80.4 million (down -25.2%)
- Japan: -$74.2 million (down -10.5%)
- Russia: -$37.8 million (up 66.7%)
- Canada: -$35.4 million (down -9.9%)
- Austria: -$23.9 million (up 25.3%)
- Belgium: -$19.3 million (down -6.1%)
- Singapore: -$19.2 million (up 3.3%)
- Poland: -$18.3 million (up 47.1%)
- South Korea: -$14.7 million (up 10.7%)
- Sweden: -$11 million (up 15.9%)
- Romania: -$9.4 million (up 90.9%)
- Vietnam: -$8.6 million (reversing a $1.3 million surplus)
The United States of America incurred the highest deficit in the international trade of pumpkins. In turn, this negative cashflow highlights America’s competitive disadvantage for this specific product category but also signals opportunities for pumpkin-supplying countries that help satisfy the powerful consumer demand.
Companies
Pumpkin Exporting Companies
According to global trading platform Alibaba, the following suppliers are examples of pumpkin-trading exporters. The home-country location for each business is shown within parentheses.
- AB2T (France)
- Shouguang Peiling Vegetable & Food Co. (China)
- Alfafood GmbH (Germany)
- Algo Imports & Exports (United States)
- HBE Trading (Netherlands)
- Integrow Marketing Ltd (New Zealand)
- Minerve Trade (Belgium)
- Oyewale Akinpelumi (Turkey)
- Sotrapex (Portugal)
- W Agripacking S.A DE C.V (Mexico)
Searchable List of Pumpkin Exporting Countries in 2019
You can change the presentation order by clicking the triangle icon at the top of the columns. An entry of 0% in the right-most column means that 2018 data was unavailable.
| Rank | Exporter | Exported Pumpkins (US$) | 2018-9 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Spain | $414,068,000 | -0.3% |
| 2. | Mexico | $398,184,000 | -2.3% |
| 3. | Netherlands | $61,453,000 | +5.8% |
| 4. | United States | $56,780,000 | -8.8% |
| 5. | Turkey | $48,181,000 | +20.5% |
| 6. | New Zealand | $41,089,000 | +1.7% |
| 7. | Morocco | $38,509,000 | -4.6% |
| 8. | Italy | $37,644,000 | -15.9% |
| 9. | France | $36,518,000 | +18.4% |
| 10. | Portugal | $25,500,000 | +8.1% |
| 11. | China | $22,252,000 | +15.8% |
| 12. | Canada | $20,719,000 | +11.1% |
| 13. | Germany | $11,167,000 | +14.1% |
| 14. | South Africa | $9,048,000 | -7.5% |
| 15. | Belgium | $8,936,000 | +1.5% |
| 16. | Honduras | $8,898,000 | +164.4% |
| 17. | Costa Rica | $6,196,000 | -9% |
| 18. | Austria | $5,680,000 | +11.9% |
| 19. | Dominican Republic | $4,968,000 | +46.9% |
| 20. | Malaysia | $3,912,000 | -11.5% |
| 21. | Australia | $3,541,000 | +45.6% |
| 22. | Tonga | $3,241,000 | +19.2% |
| 23. | Panama | $2,918,000 | +120.7% |
| 24. | Iran | $2,718,000 | -86.6% |
| 25. | Poland | $2,684,000 | -15.2% |
| 26. | Greece | $2,446,000 | +409.6% |
| 27. | Brazil | $2,382,000 | +14.7% |
| 28. | Argentina | $2,286,000 | -43.1% |
| 29. | South Korea | $1,983,000 | -28.9% |
| 30. | Jordan | $1,903,000 | +3,706% |
| 31. | United Kingdom | $1,862,000 | -36.7% |
| 32. | New Caledonia | $1,835,000 | -2.7% |
| 33. | Peru | $1,733,000 | +13.4% |
| 34. | Hungary | $1,571,000 | +54.2% |
| 35. | Czech Republic | $1,535,000 | -6.7% |
| 36. | Uzbekistan | $1,411,000 | -59.6% |
| 37. | India | $1,379,000 | -17.6% |
| 38. | Bangladesh | $1,335,000 | -63.9% |
| 39. | Pakistan | $1,290,000 | +77.7% |
| 40. | Egypt | $1,270,000 | +7.2% |
| 41. | Chile | $1,198,000 | +677.9% |
| 42. | Slovenia | $1,088,000 | +34.2% |
| 43. | Hong Kong | $1,086,000 | +105.7% |
| 44. | Bulgaria | $1,077,000 | -7% |
| 45. | Guatemala | $1,018,000 | -29.3% |
| 46. | Luxembourg | $870,000 | -4.9% |
| 47. | Albania | $860,000 | -2.4% |
| 48. | Latvia | $855,000 | +33.6% |
| 49. | Vietnam | $756,000 | -56.9% |
| 50. | Japan | $749,000 | -21.1% |
| 51. | Sri Lanka | $671,000 | -47.5% |
| 52. | Tunisia | $603,000 | -11.3% |
| 53. | Slovakia | $550,000 | +188% |
| 54. | Nicaragua | $550,000 | +116.5% |
| 55. | Denmark | $542,000 | -7.7% |
| 56. | Ukraine | $536,000 | +0.6% |
| 57. | Armenia | $508,000 | +49.4% |
| 58. | Israel | $504,000 | -39.9% |
| 59. | Lithuania | $503,000 | -18.9% |
| 60. | Kenya | $475,000 | +232.2% |
| 61. | Namibia | $469,000 | -33.3% |
| 62. | Senegal | $442,000 | +37.7% |
| 63. | Singapore | $378,000 | -2.6% |
| 64. | Russia | $318,000 | -15.9% |
| 65. | Myanmar (Burma) | $297,000 | -16.3% |
| 66. | Serbia | $249,000 | +12.2% |
| 67. | Colombia | $231,000 | +58.2% |
| 68. | Ghana | $222,000 | +909.1% |
| 69. | Gambia | $212,000 | 0% |
| 70. | Indonesia | $204,000 | +78.9% |
| 71. | Jamaica | $192,000 | -20.7% |
| 72. | Algeria | $185,000 | +386.8% |
| 73. | Belarus | $180,000 | -80.3% |
| 74. | Croatia | $172,000 | -86.3% |
| 75. | Eswatini | $164,000 | -17.2% |
| 76. | Uruguay | $146,000 | -47.7% |
| 77. | Romania | $140,000 | +66.7% |
| 78. | Thailand | $136,000 | +61.9% |
| 79. | Oman | $136,000 | -73.6% |
| 80. | Uganda | $108,000 | -57.1% |
| 81. | Kazakhstan | $86,000 | +760% |
| 82. | Guyana | $86,000 | 0% |
| 83. | Trinidad/Tobago | $83,000 | +93% |
| 84. | Haiti | $79,000 | +8.2% |
| 85. | Finland | $72,000 | +350% |
| 86. | Ireland | $70,000 | -63.2% |
| 87. | Cambodia | $64,000 | 0% |
| 88. | Philippines | $60,000 | +9.1% |
| 89. | El Salvador | $57,000 | +850% |
| 90. | Lebanon | $48,000 | -91.5% |
| 91. | Kyrgyzstan | $47,000 | +4,600% |
| 92. | Estonia | $41,000 | +32.3% |
| 93. | Sweden | $40,000 | -45.2% |
| 94. | Saint Lucia | $38,000 | +533.3% |
| 95. | North Macedonia | $33,000 | +26.9% |
| 96. | Georgia | $32,000 | +1,500% |
| 97. | Madagascar | $24,000 | +33.3% |
| 98. | Belize | $22,000 | 0% |
| 99. | Taiwan | $17,000 | -56.4% |
| 100. | Bolivia | $14,000 | +366.7% |
| 101. | Cyprus | $14,000 | -6.7% |
| 102. | Venezuela | $14,000 | -75.4% |
| 103. | Ivory Coast | $13,000 | 0% |
| 104. | Bosnia/Herzegovina | $12,000 | -85.7% |
| 105. | Afghanistan | $11,000 | -21.4% |
| 106. | Laos | $9,000 | -86.2% |
| 107. | Cameroon | $7,000 | +600% |
| 108. | Democr. Rep. Congo | $6,000 | +200% |
| 109. | Fiji | $6,000 | -14.3% |
| 110. | Tajikistan | $6,000 | +500% |
| 111. | Syria | $5,000 | -95.5% |
| 112. | Ecuador | $5,000 | -84.4% |
| 113. | Zimbabwe | $4,000 | 0% |
| 114. | Guinea-Bissau | $3,000 | -84.2% |
| 115. | Grenada | $2,000 | 0% |
| 116. | Iceland | $1,000 | 0% |
| 117. | Congo | $1,000 | 0% |
| 118. | Botswana | $1,000 | -66.7% |
| 119. | Liberia | $1,000 | 0% |
| 120. | Montenegro | $1,000 | 0% |
| 121. | Mozambique | $1,000 | 0% |
| 122. | Suriname | $1,000 | 0% |
See also Pumpkin Imports by Country, Pineapples Exports by Country, Apples Exports by Country and Oranges Exports by Country
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Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Field Listing: Exports – Commodities. Accessed on May 29, 2020
Forbes Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on May 29, 2020
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on May 29, 2020
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on May 29, 2020
Wikipedia, Pumpkin. Accessed on May 29, 2020
