Netherland's evolution of piglet exports

Dutch exports of piglets last year were less than 6 million head, exactly 5,690,079 piglets were exported, which means a decrease of 9% compared to the previous year (6,260,622 piglets). The main destinations continued to be Germany with 2.95 million piglets, Spain with 1.68 million piglets and Belgium-Luxembourg with 642,000 piglets, although with very different trends. Although exports to Germany have suffered decreases since 2018 with significant values for 2021 and 2022 (-15.7% and -17.4%, respectively), as well as to Belgium (-13.6% and -16.2 %), piglets destined for Spain have been increasing, although at different rates. The big leap came in 2018 when it almost tripled its imports compared to the previous year (about 300,000 piglets in 2017 vs. 957,000 in 2018) to continue to increase, but in smaller percentages (+20% in ...