Top Fertilizers Exports by Country
From 2020 to 2021, the value of exported fertilizers accelerated by 48.4%.
Fertilizers are critical agricultural drivers, essential for growing crops that feed people around the world.
The 6 biggest fertilizer exporters are Russia, mainland China, Canada, Morocco, United States of America and Saudi Arabia. Collectively, those major suppliers accounted for over half (52.6%) of globally exported fertilizers during 2021.
Among continents, countries in Europe sold the highest dollar worth of exported fertilizers during 2021 with shipments valued at $29.6 billion or 35.9% of the world total. Close behind in second place were Asian exporters at 34.8% while 13.4% of international fertilizer shipments originated from North America. Another 13% was sent from exporters in Africa.
Smaller percentages came from Latin America (2.5%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean notably Trinidad and Tobago, then Oceania (0.5%) led by Australia.
As for different types of exported fertilizers, about four-fifths (80.4%) were nitrogen-based products. Potassic fertilizers represent 15.5% compared to phosphatic fertilizers at 2.7%. Excluding those mineral or chemical fertilizer subcategories, the other fertilizer type is animal or vegetable fertilizers which accounted for the remaining 1.4%.
For research purposes, the high level 2-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefix is 31 for fertilizers.
