Italian Pasta: Record of consumption and exports in 2020

Published 2021년 3월 13일

Tridge summary

Pasta consumption hit record highs in 2020, both in Italy and internationally, with sales and exports reaching new heights despite the COVID-19 pandemic. There was a notable 16% increase in pasta consumption abroad, with exports exceeding 3.1 billion. The United States emerged as the largest consumer, showing a 40% increase, followed by France, Germany, and the UK with significant growth. Imports also surged in Australia, Japan, and China. In Italy, pasta consumption increased by 10% compared to 2019, driven by consumers' growing preference for pasta made from only Italian wheat, which saw a 29% rise in consumption.

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Original content

Pasta is stronger than Coronavirus, and remains at the top of consumer preferences also during 2020, recording record figures both in sales in Italy and in exports. This is what emerges from an analysis by Coldiretti on Istat data, which analyzes the consumption of our most distinctive product in the year of Covid that has just ended. A year in which 16% more pasta was consumed abroad, with a value of exports exceeding 3.1 billion. Driving the foreign pasta market is above all the United States, which in the past year were the world's largest consumers of Italian pasta, with a record increase of 40% compared to the previous year. Followed by France, with + 4.3% on 2019, Germany (which imported 16% more Italian pasta) and, despite the difficulties in trade caused by Brexit, Great Britain, which marks a +19 % on the previous year. But - Coldiretti points out - the other continents are also growing a lot: Australia has increased imports of Italian pasta by 39% (a really significant ...

Source: Dissapore