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Cereals: which countries are net importers and exporters? 2022

Imports and exports are measured as the net sum of all cereal crop varieties.Countries which lie above the grey line are net importers of cereals; those below the line are net exporters.

Country/area
Cereal imports FAO
tonnes • 2022
Cereal exports FAO
tonnes • 2022
World regions according to OWID
2022
Afghanistan4,574,000 t5,000 t
Aland Islands
Albania492,000 t14,000 t
Algeria11,581,000 t92,000 t
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola1,936,000 t15,000 t
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda15,000 t0 t
Argentina195,000 t56,477,000 t
Armenia722,000 t8,000 t
Aruba
Australia1,786,000 t42,271,000 t
Austria3,801,000 t2,593,000 t
Austria-Hungary
Azerbaijan1,688,000 t34,000 t
Bahamas68,000 t0 t
Bahrain386,000 t60,000 t
Bangladesh12,742,000 t132,000 t
Barbados82,000 t13,000 t
Belarus742,000 t371,000 t
Belgium19,524,000 t10,026,000 t
Belize40,000 t10,000 t
Benin2,657,000 t4,000 t
Bermuda
Bhutan204,000 t0 t
Bolivia396,000 t37,000 t
Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba
Bosnia and Herzegovina823,000 t101,000 t
Botswana1,163,000 t308,000 t
Brazil13,073,000 t49,431,000 t
British Indian Ocean Territory
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Bulgaria705,000 t5,822,000 t
Burkina Faso1,478,000 t21,000 t
Burundi161,000 t15,000 t
Cambodia746,000 t1,092,000 t
Cameroon2,413,000 t32,000 t
Canada9,591,000 t29,838,000 t
Cape Verde130,000 t0 t
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic60,000 t
Chad139,000 t0 t
Chile4,706,000 t651,000 t
China63,504,000 t5,105,000 t
Christmas Island
Cocos Islands
Colombia9,606,000 t252,000 t
Comoros218,000 t0 t
Congo603,000 t6,000 t
Cook Islands
Costa Rica1,452,000 t152,000 t
Cote d'Ivoire3,574,000 t232,000 t
Croatia664,000 t1,789,000 t
Cuba2,842,000 t0 t
Curacao
Cyprus687,000 t8,000 t
Czechia1,464,000 t4,366,000 t
Czechoslovakia
Democratic Republic of Congo1,330,000 t14,000 t
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Denmark1,737,000 t1,854,000 t
Djibouti1,645,000 t9,000 t
Dominica7,000 t0 t
Dominican Republic2,225,000 t282,000 t
Duchy of Modena and Reggio
Duchy of Parma and Piacenza
East Germany
East Timor598,000 t
Ecuador2,056,000 t88,000 t
Egypt16,520,000 t749,000 t
El Salvador1,425,000 t235,000 t
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia237,000 t984,000 t
Eswatini350,000 t24,000 t
Ethiopia2,932,000 t23,000 t
Ethiopia (former)
Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands
Federal Republic of Central America
Fiji211,000 t71,000 t
Finland801,000 t462,000 t
France6,623,000 t36,542,000 t
French Guiana
French Polynesia57,000 t0 t
Gabon284,000 t0 t
Gambia828,000 t0 t
Georgia1,020,000 t27,000 t
Germany19,170,000 t18,634,000 t
Ghana2,117,000 t81,000 t
Gibraltar
Grand Duchy of Baden
Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Great Colombia
Greece2,695,000 t964,000 t
Greenland
Grenada21,000 t8,000 t
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guatemala3,241,000 t264,000 t
Guernsey
Guinea1,821,000 t0 t
Guinea-Bissau76,000 t0 t
Guyana112,000 t551,000 t
Haiti1,180,000 t3,000 t
Honduras2,256,000 t454,000 t
Hong Kong1,070,000 t90,000 t
Hungary3,068,000 t5,449,000 t
Iceland150,000 t0 t
India603,000 t45,978,000 t
Indonesia12,162,000 t935,000 t
Iran13,563,000 t79,000 t
Iraq8,837,000 t2,000 t
Ireland5,164,000 t1,154,000 t
Isle of Man
Israel6,126,000 t58,000 t
Italy18,340,000 t6,818,000 t
Jamaica920,000 t33,000 t
Japan25,486,000 t337,000 t
Jersey
Jordan3,602,000 t150,000 t
Kazakhstan2,480,000 t10,080,000 t
Kenya4,684,000 t96,000 t
Kingdom of Bavaria
Kingdom of Sardinia
Kingdom of Saxony
Kingdom of Wurttemberg
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Kiribati1,000 t0 t
Korea (former)
Kosovo
Kuwait1,999,000 t85,000 t
Kyrgyzstan587,000 t78,000 t
Laos283,000 t291,000 t
Latvia1,356,000 t3,384,000 t
Lebanon1,215,000 t32,000 t
Lesotho308,000 t48,000 t
Liberia650,000 t3,000 t
Libya1,479,000 t0 t
Liechtenstein
Lithuania834,000 t3,887,000 t
Luxembourg298,000 t199,000 t
Macao66,000 t6,000 t
Madagascar1,479,000 t1,000 t
Malawi48,000 t27,000 t
Malaysia9,152,000 t1,333,000 t
Maldives125,000 t0 t
Mali830,000 t15,000 t
Malta198,000 t14,000 t
Marshall Islands32,000 t0 t
Martinique
Mauritania1,077,000 t0 t
Mauritius491,000 t18,000 t
Mayotte
Mexico23,056,000 t1,950,000 t
Micronesia (country)12,000 t0 t
Moldova279,000 t1,477,000 t
Monaco
Mongolia255,000 t1,000 t
Montenegro279,000 t1,000 t
Montserrat
Morocco10,737,000 t46,000 t
Mozambique3,031,000 t56,000 t
Myanmar468,000 t4,805,000 t
Namibia794,000 t54,000 t
Nauru1,000 t
Nepal2,285,000 t100,000 t
Netherlands24,419,000 t7,140,000 t
Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia67,000 t0 t
New Zealand1,063,000 t142,000 t
Nicaragua1,042,000 t34,000 t
Niger2,238,000 t6,000 t
Nigeria5,570,000 t22,000 t
Niue
Norfolk Island
North Korea
North Macedonia284,000 t91,000 t
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway3,698,000 t48,000 t
Oman2,003,000 t630,000 t
Orange Free State
Pakistan2,442,000 t7,906,000 t
Pakistan (former)
Palau
Palestine
Panama1,006,000 t4,000 t
Papua New Guinea1,061,000 t0 t
Paraguay222,000 t6,167,000 t
Peru6,243,000 t301,000 t
Philippines13,546,000 t118,000 t
Pitcairn
Poland6,498,000 t11,834,000 t
Portugal6,039,000 t1,080,000 t
Puerto Rico
Qatar1,725,000 t1,000 t
Republic of Vietnam
Reunion
Romania4,910,000 t13,394,000 t
Russia893,000 t23,370,000 t
Rwanda929,000 t309,000 t
Saint Barthelemy
Saint Helena
Saint Kitts and Nevis7,000 t0 t
Saint Lucia30,000 t2,000 t
Saint Martin (French part)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines44,000 t16,000 t
Samoa32,000 t0 t
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe30,000 t
Saudi Arabia17,016,000 t367,000 t
Senegal3,974,000 t228,000 t
Serbia190,000 t2,588,000 t
Serbia and Montenegro
Seychelles34,000 t0 t
Sierra Leone861,000 t0 t
Singapore
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
Slovakia1,525,000 t3,109,000 t
Slovenia1,622,000 t1,220,000 t
Solomon Islands96,000 t0 t
Somalia1,773,000 t0 t
South Africa5,606,000 t5,493,000 t
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
South Korea18,971,000 t432,000 t
South Sudan299,000 t9,000 t
Spain24,534,000 t3,184,000 t
Sri Lanka2,360,000 t155,000 t
Sudan2,010,000 t34,000 t
Sudan (former)
Suriname69,000 t58,000 t
Sweden1,042,000 t1,648,000 t
Switzerland1,997,000 t194,000 t
Syria3,246,000 t43,000 t
Taiwan6,045,000 t369,000 t
Tajikistan1,297,000 t8,000 t
Tanzania1,313,000 t1,173,000 t
Thailand4,548,000 t11,948,000 t
Togo919,000 t35,000 t
Tokelau
Tonga19,000 t0 t
Trinidad and Tobago346,000 t37,000 t
Tunisia3,919,000 t118,000 t
Turkey32,511,000 t9,611,000 t
Turkmenistan428,000 t37,000 t
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu7,000 t0 t
USSR
Uganda1,238,000 t279,000 t
Ukraine386,000 t39,170,000 t
United Arab Emirates4,960,000 t1,001,000 t
United Kingdom11,516,000 t4,214,000 t
United States20,253,000 t90,442,000 t
United States Virgin Islands
Uruguay1,073,000 t2,996,000 t
Uzbekistan4,622,000 t1,278,000 t
Vanuatu57,000 t0 t
Vatican
Venezuela2,799,000 t6,000 t
Vietnam18,537,000 t11,414,000 t
Wallis and Futuna
West Germany
Western Sahara
Yemen5,243,000 t9,000 t
Yemen Arab Republic
Yemen People's Republic
Yugoslavia
Zambia123,000 t628,000 t
Zimbabwe815,000 t19,000 t
Other
Africa111,275,000 t10,342,000 t
Africa (FAO)111,274,000 t10,343,000 t
Americas (FAO)111,700,000 t240,793,000 t
Asia316,048,000 t116,230,000 t
Asia (FAO)317,635,000 t116,245,000 t
Belgium-Luxembourg (FAO)
Caribbean (FAO)7,787,000 t394,000 t
Central America (FAO)33,519,000 t3,103,000 t
Central Asia (FAO)9,415,000 t11,482,000 t
China (FAO)70,685,000 t5,570,000 t
Eastern Africa (FAO)21,212,000 t2,663,000 t
Eastern Asia (FAO)115,602,000 t6,340,000 t
Eastern Europe (FAO)20,469,000 t108,363,000 t
Europe179,684,000 t219,197,000 t
Europe (FAO)178,995,000 t219,187,000 t
European Union (27)157,955,000 t147,558,000 t
European Union (27) (FAO)157,954,000 t147,557,000 t
High-income countries302,329,000 t345,765,000 t
Land Locked Developing Countries (FAO)33,715,000 t21,422,000 t
Least Developed Countries (FAO)66,631,000 t9,391,000 t
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (FAO)67,503,000 t4,013,000 t
Low-income countries36,372,000 t904,000 t
Lower-middle-income countries138,804,000 t77,595,000 t
Melanesia1,492,000 t71,000 t
Micronesia (FAO)50,000 t0 t
Middle Africa (FAO)6,795,000 t68,000 t
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (FAO)137,449,000 t20,633,000 t
North America71,149,000 t123,777,000 t
Northern Africa (FAO)46,246,000 t1,039,000 t
Northern America (FAO)29,845,000 t120,280,000 t
Northern Europe (FAO)26,534,000 t17,635,000 t
Oceania4,502,000 t42,484,000 t
Oceania (FAO)4,505,000 t42,485,000 t
Polynesia114,000 t0 t
Small Island Developing States (FAO)11,366,000 t1,103,000 t
South America40,550,000 t117,015,000 t
South America (FAO)40,550,000 t117,015,000 t
South-eastern Asia (FAO)60,039,000 t31,937,000 t
Southern Africa (FAO)8,221,000 t5,926,000 t
Southern Asia (FAO)38,899,000 t54,355,000 t
Southern Europe (FAO)56,160,000 t17,862,000 t
Upper-middle-income countries245,703,000 t204,781,000 t
Western Africa (FAO)28,801,000 t648,000 t
Western Asia (FAO)93,679,000 t12,130,000 t
Western Europe (FAO)75,832,000 t75,328,000 t
World724,110,000 t629,052,000 t
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