Top 25 largest onion importing countries according to EastFruit globally

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Published Mar 1, 2024

Tridge summary

A recent analysis by EastFruit on global onion import volumes from 2018 to 2022 reveals a wide distribution of importers, with the five largest, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and the US, accounting for only 27% of total imports. The fastest-growing onion markets include Kazakhstan and Ukraine from the EastFruit region, ranking 5th and 11th respectively. Poland, a major onion exporter, also showed significant growth in imports, likely due to re-exporting, while Pakistan topped the list due to a loss of onion crops in 2022. The Middle East, particularly Oman and the UAE, show high demand for purple and white onions.

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Original content

For the second season in a row, onions remain one of the most discussed commodity items in the world's fruit and vegetable business. Therefore, EastFruit decided to analyze onion import volumes by country of the world for 5 calendar years for which there is complete trade data (from 2018 to 2022 inclusive) in order to compile its own rating of the largest importers. Separately, we will show which countries are increasing onion imports at the fastest pace, so that exporters can understand which potential buyers should pay attention to first. However, first, here is what the world map looks like, which shows the largest importers by the end of 2022. Let us remember that this is the year of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which had a huge impact on the onion trade in the region. The following graph clearly shows that many countries import onions. Therefore, the share of the five largest importers in the volume of imports barely reaches 27%. Moreover, almost all of the five largest ...

Source: Eastfruit