
In comparison, worldwide exported synthetic beards, eyelashes and similar items were valued at $885.4 million for 2020. That dollar amount reflects a 17.2% improvement versus 2016 but a flatlining -0.7% decrease from 2019 to 2020.
International sales of wigs, beards, eyelashes and similar items made from human hair remain a lucrative exported product category, ringing up $1.53 billion in international sales for 2020. Increases under this category were modest, up 1.5% from 2016 and gaining 6.6% from 2019 to 2020.
Exported items made from animal hair encompassing wigs, beards and eyelashes attracted $1.78 billion during 2020. While this product category benefited from a 62.6% increase since 2016, global sales retreated by -7.9% from 2019 to 2020.
Below, you will find the 6-digit Harmonized Tariff System codes the product categories shown.
- 670411 for synthetic full wigs
- 670419 for synthetic beards, eyelashes and similar items
- 670420 for items made from human hair including wigs, beards and eyelashes
- 670490 for items made from animal hair including wigs, beards and eyelashes.
Top Exporters of Wigs, Beards and Eyelashes by Type
Synthetic Wigs
Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of synthetic full wigs during 2020.
- Indonesia: US$132.7 million (35.1% of exported synthetic full wigs)
- China: $126.2 million (33.4%)
- Germany: $33.9 million (9%)
- Bangladesh: $19.1 million (5.1%)
- United States: $14 million (3.7%)
- Myanmar: $12.4 million (3.3%)
- Hong Kong: $7.6 million (2%)
- Cambodia: $7.1 million (1.9%)
- Philippines: $7.1 million (1.9%)
- Laos: $5.3 million (1.4%)
- United Kingdom: $3.5 million (0.9%)
- France: $2.4 million (0.6%)
- Thailand: $1.3 million (0.3%)
- South Korea: $1.1 million (0.3%)
- Netherlands: $656,000 (0.2%)
The listed 15 countries shipped 99% of global synthetic full wigs exports in 2020 by value.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing exporters of synthetic full wigs since 2016 were: Laos (up 983%), Myanmar (up 852.3%), Cambodia (up 267.0%) and Germany (up 14.1%).
Those countries that posted declines in their export sales of synthetic full wigs were led by: Philippines (down -84%), Netherlands (down -75.6%), Hong Kong (down -69%), United Kingdom (down -48.2%) and Thailand (down -25.4%).
Other
Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of synthetic beards, eyelashes and similar items during 2020.
- China: US$499.7 million (56.4% of exported synthetic beards and eyelashes)
- Bangladesh: $80 million (9.1%)
- Indonesia: $63.2 million (7.1%)
- Senegal: $58.2 million (6.6%)
- Vietnam: $26.1 million (2.9%)
- South Korea: $20.4 million (2.3%)
- United States: $19.4 million (2.2%)
- Philippines: $15.3 million (1.7%)
- Germany: $12.4 million (1.4%)
- United Kingdom: $12 million (1.4%)
- Togo: $10.1 million (1.1%)
- Czech Republic: $9 million (1%)
- Canada: $7.9 million (0.9%)
- Haiti: $7.3 million (0.8%)
- Thailand: $4.8 million (0.5%)
The listed 15 countries shipped 95.6% of global synthetic beards and eyelashes exports in 2020 by value.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing exporters of synthetic beards and eyelashes since 2016 were: Haiti (up 731,100%), Philippines (up 305,080%), Czech Republic (up 2,220%) and Germany (up 172.8%).
Those countries that posted declines in their sales of exported synthetic beards and eyelashes were led by: Togo (down -52.5%), Canada (down -51.7%), Thailand (down -37.4%), Indonesia (down -33.8%) and South Korea (down -33.5%).
Human
Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of items made from human hair including wigs, beards and eyelashes during 2020.
- China: US$1.3 billion (83.2% of exported wigs, beards and eyelashes made from human hair)
- Indonesia: $112.9 million (7.4%)
- Germany: $30.8 million (2%)
- United States: $28.5 million (1.9%)
- Bangladesh: $17.1 million (1.1%)
- Hong Kong: $14 million (0.9%)
- Italy: $8.3 million (0.5%)
- Austria: $5.8 million (0.4%)
- United Kingdom: $5.4 million (0.4%)
- Israel: $4.8 million (0.3%)
- Netherlands: $3.3 million (0.2%)
- South Korea: $2.8 million (0.2%)
- Sweden: $2.8 million (0.2%)
- Slovenia: $1.9 million (0.1%)
- Slovakia: $1.8 million (0.1%)
The listed 15 countries shipped 98.8% of global wigs, beards and eyelashes made from human hair exports in 2020 by value.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing exporters of wigs, beards and eyelashes made from human hair since 2016 were: Slovenia (up 494%), Bangladesh (up 223.3%), Germany (up 54.6%) and Austria (up 42.8%).
Those countries that posted declines in their export sales of wigs, beards and eyelashes made from human hair were led by: Hong Kong (down -68.1%), Netherlands (down -56%), United Kingdom (down -33.2%), South Korea (down -32.6%) and Italy (down -31.3%).
Animal
Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of items made from animal hair including wigs, beards and eyelashes during 2020.
- China: US$1.6 billion (89.2% of exported wigs, beards and eyelashes made from animal hair)
- Indonesia: $78.9 million (4.4%)
- Mozambique: $39 million (2.2%)
- United States: $12.5 million (0.7%)
- Vietnam: $10.5 million (0.6%)
- Kenya: $9.1 million (0.5%)
- Thailand: $8.7 million (0.5%)
- Hong Kong: $5.1 million (0.3%)
- Uganda: $4.8 million (0.3%)
- South Africa: $3.9 million (0.2%)
- South Korea: $3.6 million (0.2%)
- United Kingdom: $2 million (0.1%)
- Germany: $1.9 million (0.1%)
- Israel: $1.8 million (0.1%)
- Italy: $1.8 million (0.1%)
The listed 15 countries shipped 99.5% of global wigs, beards and eyelashes made from animal hair exports in 2020 by value.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing exporters of wigs, beards and eyelashes made from animal hair since 2016 were: Uganda (up 1,433%), Hong Kong (up 1,376%), Mozambique (up 153.2%) and Germany (up 125.9%).
Those countries that posted declines in their export sales of wigs, beards and eyelashes made from animal hair were led by: South Korea (down -57.7%), Israel (down -49.8%), United States (down -33.9%), South Africa (down -21.1%) and Thailand (down -15.2%).
Firms
Wigs Exporting Companies
According to global trading platform Alibaba, the following suppliers are examples of exporters engaged in the trade of wigs and hair extensions.
- Hair Edition (South Korea)
- Hair Piece Factory (Bangladesh)
- Montez Enterprise, LLC (United States)
- Pearlcoin Limited (Hong Kong)
- Sensualy.it (Italy)
- Suna Hair (India)
- Tran Nang Chinh Household (Vietnam)
- Xuchang Yunlong Hair Products (China)
The home-country location for each business is shown within parentheses.
See also Top Human Hair Exporters by Country, Perfumes Exporters by Country and Beauty Cosmetics and Skincare Exports by Country
Research Sources:
Alibaba, Supplier showroom for hair wigs. Accessed on September 13, 2021
Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Field Listing: Exports – Commodities. Accessed on September 13, 2021
Forbes Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on September 13, 2021
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on September 13, 2021
Trade Map, International Trade Centre. Accessed on September 13, 2021
Wikipedia, Eyelash extensions. Accessed on September 13, 2021
Wikipedia, Wig. Accessed on September 13, 2021