Malt: top exporters and importers (2024)

1. France$661 million · 13.1%
2. Belgium$552 million · 10.9%
   re-exports
3. Germany$456 million · 9%
4. Canada$403 million · 8%
5. Australia$389 million · 7.7%
6. Argentina$363 million · 7.2%
7. China$327 million · 6.5%
8. Uruguay$296 million · 5.9%
9. United States$279 million · 5.5%
10. Netherlands$211 million · 4.2%
    re-exports
11. United Kingdom$133 million · 2.6%
12. Slovakia$130 million · 2.6%
13. Russia$128 million · 2.5%
14. Denmark$111 million · 2.2%
15. Czechia$105 million · 2.1%
16. Sweden$86 million · 1.7%
17. Poland$60 million · 1.2%
18. Austria$51 million · 1%
19. Lithuania$35 million · 0.69%
20. South Africa$31 million · 0.62%

France went from 21.7% to 13.1% of world exports of malt

In 2024, France accounted for 13.1% of recorded world exports and the three largest exporters together for 33.1%. HHI: 709 out of 10,000; equivalent to 14 exporters of the same size.

Share of recorded exports, not of production: a country that produces a lot and consumes almost all of it may export little

Some of these goods may have been produced in another country: countries record origin in different ways.

Countries where France sells more than half of what they buy

Countries that buy more than half of this product from its largest exporter, with its share.

• Belgium: 73.3% of its purchases · Dependence of Belgium on France
• Cameroon: 69.7% of its purchases
• Venezuela: 57.1% of its purchases
• Spain: 57.4% of its purchases · Dependence of Spain on France
• Tunisia: 61.7% of its purchases
• Central African Republic: 81.1% of its purchases
• French Polynesia: 97.2% of its purchases
• Luxembourg: 63% of its purchases · Dependence of Luxembourg on France
• Cabo Verde: 67.7% of its purchases

1. Brazil$722 million · 14.3%
2. Mexico$423 million · 8.4%
3. Japan$322 million · 6.4%
4. United States$305 million · 6%
5. Belgium$186 million · 3.7%
   re-exports
6. Vietnam$186 million · 3.7%
7. Germany$157 million · 3.1%
8. Thailand$151 million · 3%
9. Netherlands$135 million · 2.7%
   re-exports
10. Poland$121 million · 2.4%
11. Cambodia$109 million · 2.2%
12. Nigeria$93 million · 1.8%
13. Italy$91 million · 1.8%
14. Turkey$83 million · 1.7%
15. South Africa$81 million · 1.6%
16. South Korea$78 million · 1.5%
17. United Kingdom$73 million · 1.5%
18. Cameroon$72 million · 1.4%
19. Philippines$61 million · 1.2%
20. Guatemala$53 million · 1.1%

• 1107 · Malt

Products in the same chapter

• Starches
• Wheat flour
• Rolled oats and other processed grains
• Wheat gluten
• Other cereal flours
• Cereal groats and pellets
• Potato flour and flakes
• Legume and root flours

Sources and licenses

• CEPII BACI · Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
• Natural Earth · Public domain

Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), which reconciles what exporters and importers report: countries that stopped reporting (Russia since 2022) appear with their partners’ data. FOB values in current US dollars; tonnes when BACI reports them. The price per tonne is the value of the rows with a weight divided by that weight. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. Data up to 2024.

Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands and Belgium re-export goods from other countries: their figures include transit.