Pumpkin exports by country totaled US$1.55 billion in 2021, up by 20.7% for all pumpkin shippers over the five-year period starting from $1.285 billion for 2017.
Year over year, the value of globally exported pumpkins declined by -2.8% compared to $1.597 billion during 2020.
The top 5 most lucrative exporters of pumpkins were Spain, Mexico, Netherlands, Turkey, and the United States of America. That quintet of leading pumpkin suppliers accounted for 73% of the total value of pumpkins sold on international markets during 2021. Such a high percentage indicates a concentrated set of sellers.
Among continents, suppliers in European countries accounted for the highest dollar worth of exported pumpkin during 2021 with shipments valued at $785.1 million or just over half (50.6%) of the global total. In second place were North American exporters at 30.5% well ahead of the 8.6% for worldwide shipments of pumpkins originating from Asia.
Smaller percentages came from Oceania (4.1%) led by New Zealand, Africa (4%), then Latin America (2.1%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean.
For research purposes, the 6-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefix is 070993 for pumpkins encompassing other types of squash and gourds.
Pumpkin Exports by Country
Below are the 15 countries that sold the highest dollar value worth of exported pumpkins during 2021.
- Spain: US$542 million (34.9% of total exported pumpkins)
- Mexico: $394.1 million (25.4%)
- Netherlands: $69.6 million (4.5%)
- Turkey: $69.1 million (4.5%)
- United States: $57.6 million (3.7%)
- New Zealand: $56.3 million (3.6%)
- Italy: $49.2 million (3.2%)
- France: $44.4 million (2.9%)
- Morocco: $38.2 million (2.5%)
- Portugal: $25.8 million (1.7%)
- Canada: $21.9 million (1.4%)
- China: $21.1 million (1.4%)
- South Africa: $18.7 million (1.2%)
- Iran: $12.8 million (0.8%)
- Germany: $10.6 million (0.7%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 92.3% of globally exported pumpkins in 2021.
Among the top exporters, the fastest-growing exporters of pumpkins since 2020 were: Turkey (up 35.3%), South Africa (up 33.5%), France (up 20.4%) and Morocco (up 17.8%).
Those countries that posted declines in their international sales of pumpkins were led by: Mexico (down -24.8%), United States of America (down -14.1%), Germany (down -11.3%), Iran (down -6.5%), then mainland China (down -5.7%).
Countries Reaping Biggest Trade Surpluses from Pumpkins
The following countries posted the highest positive net exports for pumpkins during 2021. 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.
- Spain: US$513.6 million (net export surplus up 8.7% since 2020)
- Mexico: $392.2 million (down -24.9%)
- Turkey: $69 million (up 35.4%)
- New Zealand: $54.6 million (up 4.7%)
- Morocco: $38.2 million (up 17.8%)
- South Africa: $18.1 million (up 37.1%)
- China: $17.9 million (up 4.8%)
- Portugal: $13.5 million (up 6.1%)
- Iran: $12.8 million (down -6.5%)
- Italy: $8.9 million (down -36%)
- India: $8.7 million (up 58.6%)
- Costa Rica: $7.8 million (down -4.9%)
- Brazil: $4.9 million (down -11.5%)
- Myanmar: $3.69 million (up 139.5%)
- Peru: $3.68 million (up 63.9%)
Spain and Mexico generated the highest surpluses in the international trade of pumpkins. In turn, those positive cashflows confirm both countries’ competitive advantages for this specific product category.
Countries Enduring Worst Trade Deficits from Pumpkins
The following countries posted the highest negative net exports for pumpkins during 2021. 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$357.4 million (net export deficit down -22.8% since 2020)
- Germany: -$176.8 million (down -0.5%)
- France: -$150.6 million (down -10.7%)
- United Kingdom: -$96.6 million (down -7.9%)
- Japan: -$76.8 million (up 14.4%)
- Russia: -$47.3 million (up 44.2%)
- Canada: -$37.1 million (down -15.5%)
- Belgium: -$28.5 million (up 13.8%)
- Austria: -$26.8 million (up 1.5%)
- Poland: -$26.6 million (up 9.1%)
- Singapore: -$21.2 million (up 5.6%)
- Netherlands: -$18.8 million (down -14.1%)
- South Korea: -$16 million (up 43.9%)
- Vietnam: -$14 million (reversing a $1.44 million surplus)
- Sweden: -$12.3 million (down -1.8%)
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.
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
The 100 international suppliers showcased in the automated database below collected 99.99% of the overall revenues for globally exported pumpkins.
| Rank | Exporter | Pumpkin Exports | 2020-1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Spain | $542,047,000 | +7.9% |
| 2. | Mexico | $394,124,000 | -24.8% |
| 3. | Netherlands | $69,585,000 | +10.1% |
| 4. | Turkey | $69,143,000 | +35.3% |
| 5. | United States | $57,611,000 | -14.1% |
| 6. | New Zealand | $56,267,000 | +6.9% |
| 7. | Italy | $49,220,000 | +8% |
| 8. | France | $44,366,000 | +20.4% |
| 9. | Morocco | $38,218,000 | +17.8% |
| 10. | Portugal | $25,761,000 | -3.4% |
| 11. | Canada | $21,927,000 | -4.6% |
| 12. | China | $21,118,000 | -5.7% |
| 13. | South Africa | $18,686,000 | +33.5% |
| 14. | Iran | $12,785,000 | -6.5% |
| 15. | Germany | $10,581,000 | -11.3% |
| 16. | Belgium | $8,981,000 | -3.5% |
| 17. | India | $8,668,000 | +58.6% |
| 18. | Austria | $8,188,000 | +167.6% |
| 19. | Costa Rica | $7,791,000 | -4.9% |
| 20. | Greece | $4,981,000 | +402.6% |
| 21. | Brazil | $4,966,000 | -12.6% |
| 22. | Malaysia | $4,689,000 | +29.9% |
| 23. | Poland | $3,890,000 | +1.6% |
| 24. | Myanmar | $3,689,000 | +139.5% |
| 25. | Peru | $3,679,000 | +63.9% |
| 26. | Panama | $3,613,000 | +78.5% |
| 27. | Australia | $3,592,000 | -17.3% |
| 28. | Dominican Republic | $3,446,000 | -16.8% |
| 29. | El Salvador | $2,830,000 | +11220% |
| 30. | Laos | $2,780,000 | +7.5% |
| 31. | Honduras | $2,678,000 | -22.3% |
| 32. | New Caledonia | $2,637,000 | +11.5% |
| 33. | Czech Republic | $2,321,000 | +48.4% |
| 34. | Albania | $2,213,000 | +12.8% |
| 35. | South Korea | $1,941,000 | -42% |
| 36. | Egypt | $1,887,000 | +95.5% |
| 37. | Tonga | $1,762,000 | +12.2% |
| 38. | Bulgaria | $1,734,000 | +20% |
| 39. | Slovenia | $1,722,000 | +57.5% |
| 40. | Bangladesh | $1,687,000 | -36.6% |
| 41. | Hungary | $1,522,000 | +34% |
| 42. | United Kingdom | $1,458,000 | -30.9% |
| 43. | Guatemala | $1,161,000 | -18.8% |
| 44. | Croatia | $1,161,000 | +140.4% |
| 45. | Syria | $1,065,000 | +88.5% |
| 46. | Japan | $1,055,000 | -1.5% |
| 47. | Latvia | $961,000 | +3.6% |
| 48. | Argentina | $912,000 | -48.2% |
| 49. | Tunisia | $894,000 | -19.8% |
| 50. | Luxembourg | $879,000 | +20.4% |
| 51. | Lebanon | $847,000 | +41.6% |
| 52. | Namibia | $817,000 | +27.7% |
| 53. | Ghana | $793,000 | +37.7% |
| 54. | Denmark | $667,000 | +37% |
| 55. | Jordan | $645,000 | +5275% |
| 56. | Singapore | $639,000 | +38% |
| 57. | Lithuania | $614,000 | +19.2% |
| 58. | Pakistan | $612,000 | -69.3% |
| 59. | Ukraine | $494,000 | -36.4% |
| 60. | Russia | $411,000 | -9.5% |
| 61. | Slovakia | $364,000 | -33.1% |
| 62. | Ethiopia | $364,000 | +355% |
| 63. | Jamaica | $358,000 | +1.7% |
| 64. | Israel | $352,000 | -28.5% |
| 65. | Georgia | $267,000 | +790% |
| 66. | Vietnam | $243,000 | -84.2% |
| 67. | Uruguay | $238,000 | +2.6% |
| 68. | Colombia | $228,000 | -2.6% |
| 69. | Kazakhstan | $218,000 | +147.7% |
| 70. | Romania | $209,000 | +81.7% |
| 71. | Senegal | $202,000 | -67.1% |
| 72. | Hong Kong | $191,000 | -48.8% |
| 73. | Thailand | $190,000 | +24.2% |
| 74. | Ireland | $179,000 | +258% |
| 75. | Sri Lanka | $166,000 | -13.5% |
| 76. | Uzbekistan | $161,000 | -36.9% |
| 77. | United Arab Emirates | $157,000 | -96.4% |
| 78. | Eswatini | $153,000 | +7% |
| 79. | North Macedonia | $151,000 | -1.3% |
| 80. | Sweden | $146,000 | +84.8% |
| 81. | Guyana | $132,000 | +23.4% |
| 82. | Indonesia | $125,000 | -62.9% |
| 83. | Kyrgyzstan | $117,000 | +98.3% |
| 84. | Uganda | $97,000 | -9.3% |
| 85. | Serbia | $95,000 | +61% |
| 86. | Kenya | $94,000 | +91.8% |
| 87. | Haiti | $81,000 | -9% |
| 88. | Oman | $77,000 | -96.6% |
| 89. | Belarus | $68,000 | +94.3% |
| 90. | Armenia | $60,000 | -85.9% |
| 91. | Madagascar | $52,000 | +10.6% |
| 92. | Philippines | $47,000 | -4.1% |
| 93. | Estonia | $41,000 | +10.8% |
| 94. | Fiji | $40,000 | +700% |
| 95. | Finland | $34,000 | -34.6% |
| 96. | Taiwan | $32,000 | +14.3% |
| 97. | Switzerland | $20,000 | 0% |
| 98. | Trinidad/Tobago | $20,000 | -20% |
| 99. | Bolivia | $19,000 | +171.4% |
| 100. | Belize | $11,000 | -81% |
Focusing on the 100 leading exporters, the fastest growers from 2020 to 2021 were El Salvador (up 11,220%), Jordan (up 5,275%), Georgia (up 790%), Fiji (up 700%), and Greece (up 402.6%).
You can change the presentation order by clicking the triangle icon at the top of the above table’s columns. An entry reading ‘same’ in the right-most column means that there was no change from 2020 to 2021.
See also Pumpkin Imports by Country, Pineapples Exports by Country, Apples Exports by Country and Oranges Exports by Country
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