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Wheat field at sunsetGlobally, wheat imports during 2025 cost a total US$51.1 billion in international purchases.
The overall value of imported wheat for all buying countries shrank by an average -20% since 2021 when the world’s tally for wheat purchases equaled $63.8 billion.
From 2024 to 2025, worldwide spending on imported wheat dropped by -13.5% starting from $59.1 billion in the year earlier.
By value, the 5 biggest buyers of wheat (Egypt, Indonesia, Italy, Philippines and Morocco) purchased over one quarter (26.5%) of overall wheat imports bought in 2025.
From a continental perspective, Asian countries consumed the highest dollar worth of overall wheat imported during 2025 with purchases valued at $19.7 billion or 38.7% of the global total. In second place were importers located in Africa at 25.4% while another 21.5% worth of worldwide wheat imports was delivered to Europe.
Smaller percentages arrived for buyers in Latin America (10.1%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, North America (3.8%), then Oceania (0.6%) led by New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Fiji.
For research purposes, the 4-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefix is 1001 for wheat and meslin.
Below are the 15 countries that imported the highest dollar value worth of wheat during 2025.
- Egypt: US$3.7 billion (7.3% of total imported wheat)
- Indonesia: $3.3 billion (6.4%)
- Italy: $2.9 billion (5.6%)
- Philippines: $1.9 billion (3.7%)
- Morocco: $1.8 billion (3.5%)
- Spain: $1.69 billion (3.3%)
- Japan: $1.61 billion (3.1%)
- Brazil: $1.6 billion (3.1%)
- Algeria: $1.4 billion (2.8%)
- South Korea: $1.31 billion (2.6%)
- Nigeria: $1.29 billion (2.5%)
- Mexico: $1.18 billion (2.3%)
- Vietnam: $1.18 billion (2.3%)
- Türkiye: $1.16 billion (2.3%)
- mainland China: $1.14 billion (2.2%)
Among the above countries, the growth markets for wheat since 2024 were: Nigeria (up 19.7%), Italy (up 8.7%) and Morocco (up 0.2%).
Those countries that posted declines in their imported wheat purchases were led by: mainland China (down -67.2% from 2024), Algeria (down -52.2%), Vietnam (down -24.8%) and Egypt (down -16.3%).
By value, the listed 15 countries purchased 53.1% of all wheat imported in 2025.
Collectively, the 100 key importers showcased in the database below bought 98% of worldwide imports of wheat during 2025 by dollar value.
| 1 | Egypt | $3,720,719,000 | -16.3% |
| 2 | Indonesia | $3,281,096,000 | -9.7% |
| 3 | Italy | $2,855,843,000 | +8.7% |
| 4 | Philippines | $1,896,570,000 | -6.8% |
| 5 | Morocco | $1,798,564,000 | +0.2% |
| 6 | Spain | $1,694,048,000 | -8.9% |
| 7 | Japan | $1,608,633,000 | -5.2% |
| 8 | Brazil | $1,595,384,000 | -2.6% |
| 9 | Algeria | $1,429,871,000 | -52.2% |
| 10 | South Korea | $1,307,738,000 | -6.6% |
| 11 | Nigeria | $1,287,984,000 | +19.7% |
| 12 | Mexico | $1,181,484,000 | -1.4% |
| 13 | Vietnam | $1,179,992,000 | -24.8% |
| 14 | Türkiye | $1,159,598,000 | -14.6% |
| 15 | mainland China | $1,140,705,000 | -67.2% |
| 16 | Bangladesh | $1,111,305,000 | +57.7% |
| 17 | Netherlands | $1,030,241,000 | -0.6% |
| 18 | Germany | $1,025,829,000 | -31% |
| 19 | Belgium | $1,001,071,000 | +3.7% |
| 20 | Thailand | $964,792,000 | -17% |
| 21 | Saudi Arabia | $821,383,000 | -14.3% |
| 22 | United Kingdom | $790,321,000 | -11.5% |
| 23 | Uzbekistan | $776,417,000 | +30.4% |
| 24 | United States | $707,058,000 | -9.8% |
| 25 | Peru | $636,599,000 | -4.8% |
| 26 | Ecuador | $611,897,000 | +23.5% |
| 27 | South Africa | $583,357,000 | +8.5% |
| 28 | Malaysia | $552,548,000 | +3.9% |
| 29 | Colombia | $523,160,000 | -7.6% |
| 30 | Israel | $502,778,000 | +16.1% |
| 31 | Yemen | $487,963,000 | +55.9% |
| 32 | Iraq | $415,367,000 | +56.1% |
| 33 | Portugal | $398,574,000 | +18.8% |
| 34 | Kenya | $393,440,000 | -38.2% |
| 35 | Taiwan | $381,881,000 | -8.7% |
| 36 | Angola | $339,343,000 | -9.4% |
| 37 | Venezuela | $322,270,000 | +36.4% |
| 38 | Greece | $321,668,000 | +9.7% |
| 39 | Chile | $303,652,000 | +7.1% |
| 40 | Austria | $283,666,000 | +9.2% |
| 41 | Azerbaijan | $275,626,000 | -1.5% |
| 42 | Tajikistan | $271,568,000 | -1.1% |
| 43 | Ivory Coast | $265,810,000 | +19.4% |
| 44 | United Arab Emirates | $247,208,000 | -38.3% |
| 45 | Guatemala | $243,143,000 | +4.9% |
| 46 | Mauritania | $234,039,000 | -6.9% |
| 47 | Cameroon | $219,507,000 | -37.8% |
| 48 | Tunisia | $209,854,000 | -57.5% |
| 49 | Jordan | $200,665,000 | -33.5% |
| 50 | Dominican Republic | $192,347,000 | -17.6% |
| 51 | Slovenia | $191,312,000 | +91.6% |
| 52 | Mozambique | $187,070,000 | -19.6% |
| 53 | Zimbabwe | $186,810,000 | +36.9% |
| 54 | Tanzania | $183,493,000 | -53.3% |
| 55 | Switzerland | $182,060,000 | +36.3% |
| 56 | Romania | $181,222,000 | -10.1% |
| 57 | Democratic Republic Congo | $180,359,000 | +15.1% |
| 58 | Ghana | $176,485,000 | +108841% |
| 59 | Senegal | $171,818,000 | -39% |
| 60 | New Zealand | $169,456,000 | -7.1% |
| 61 | Uganda | $146,154,000 | -33.7% |
| 62 | Zambia | $144,866,000 | +49.2% |
| 63 | Kuwait | $137,166,000 | -2.8% |
| 64 | Georgia | $128,344,000 | +68.7% |
| 65 | Latvia | $123,178,000 | -5.1% |
| 66 | Myanmar | $121,539,000 | +6.3% |
| 67 | Norway | $120,147,000 | -6.4% |
| 68 | Burkina Faso | $119,801,000 | +14% |
| 69 | Ireland | $115,129,000 | -17.6% |
| 70 | Guinea | $113,826,000 | +13.9% |
| 71 | Kazakhstan | $110,111,000 | -71.1% |
| 72 | El Salvador | $109,560,000 | +29.3% |
| 73 | Sri Lanka | $103,433,000 | -65% |
| 74 | Costa Rica | $95,458,000 | -1% |
| 75 | Afghanistan | $95,458,000 | +108.8% |
| 76 | Denmark | $95,264,000 | +15.3% |
| 77 | Mali | $90,172,000 | +32.6% |
| 78 | Haiti | $89,909,000 | +5.7% |
| 79 | Honduras | $87,601,000 | +9.8% |
| 80 | Rwanda | $80,741,000 | +12.3% |
| 81 | Bosnia/Herzegovina | $80,070,000 | +16.5% |
| 82 | Cuba | $79,500,000 | +27.7% |
| 83 | Poland | $76,257,000 | -44.3% |
| 84 | Congo | $75,417,000 | -10.7% |
| 85 | Kyrgyzstan | $70,708,000 | +35.7% |
| 86 | France | $69,802,000 | +0.3% |
| 87 | Singapore | $66,328,000 | +9.8% |
| 88 | Oman | $66,155,000 | -79.1% |
| 89 | Madagascar | $65,967,000 | -15.7% |
| 90 | Papua New Guinea | $63,897,000 | -52.5% |
| 91 | Djibouti | $60,152,000 | +131.3% |
| 92 | Sudan | $58,705,000 | +126.3% |
| 93 | Panama | $58,109,000 | +1.5% |
| 94 | Lebanon | $56,861,000 | -61.1% |
| 95 | Mauritius | $56,189,000 | +12.7% |
| 96 | Nicaragua | $54,891,000 | +36.1% |
| 97 | Togo | $54,749,000 | +110.9% |
| 98 | Luxembourg | $53,776,000 | +1.3% |
| 99 | Benin | $52,601,000 | +10.7% |
| 100 | Namibia | $51,727,000 | +0.2% |
You can change the presentation order by clicking the triangle icon at the top of any of the columns above. An entry of 0% in the right-most column means that no 2024 data is available.
Among the 100 major markets for imported wheat, the fastest growing demand came from: Ghana (up 108,841% from 2024), Djibouti (up 131.3%), Sudan (up 126.3%), Togo (up 110.9%) then Afghanistan (up 108.8%).
Global Wheat Imports into Egypt
Below are the top suppliers from which Egypt imported the highest dollar value worth of wheat during 2025. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2024 to 2025.
- Russia: US$2.2 billion (down -27.9% from 2024)
- Ukraine: $939.4 million (up 57.8%)
- Romania: $194.1 million (down -30.2%)
- France: $152.3 million (down -13.3%)
- Bulgaria: $90.2 million (down -48.9%)
- United States: $57.4 million (down -23.3%)
- Canada: $42.9 million (up 393.4%)
- Australia: $24.5 million (down -54.9%)
- Moldova: $10 million (down -41.5%)
- Kazakhstan: $3 million (2024 data unavailable)
- Serbia: $1.4 million (down -63.8%)
- India: $34,000 (2024 data unavailable)
- Afghanistan: $2,000 (2024 data unavailable)
By value, the listed countries shipped 100% of wheat imported by Egypt in 2025.
Among the above countries, the growth suppliers of wheat to Egypt since 2024 were: Canada (up 393.4%) and Ukraine (up 57.8%).
Those countries that posted the severest declines in their imported wheat purchases were led by: Serbia (down -63.8%), Australia (down -54.9%), Bulgaria (down -48.9%), Moldova (down -41.5%) and Romania (down -30.2%).
Overall, the value of Egypt’s imported wheat went down by an average -16.3% from all supplying countries since 2024 when wheat purchased cost $4.4 billion.
Global Wheat Imports into Indonesia
Below are the top suppliers from which Indonesia imported the highest dollar value worth of wheat during 2025. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2024 to 2025.
- Australia: US$1.3 billion (up 39.2% from 2024)
- Canada: $728 million (down -17.7%)
- Ukraine: $398.8 million (down -43%)
- Argentina: $380.2 million (down -3.4%)
- United States: $294.7 million (up 48.7%)
- Brazil: $61.4 million (2024 data unavailable)
- Russia: $58.5 million (down -84.5%)
- Bulgaria: $22.7 million (down -72.8%)
- Romania: $15 million (2024 data unavailable)
- Moldova: $1.7 million (down -91.4%)
- Austria: $129,000 (2024 data unavailable)
- Papua New Guinea: $6,000 (2024 data unavailable)
By value, the listed countries shipped 100% of wheat imported by Indonesia in 2025.
Among the above countries, the growth suppliers of wheat to Indonesia since 2024 were: United States of America (up 48.7%) and Australia (up 39.2%).
Countries that experienced declines in the value of their wheat supplied to Indonesian importers included: Serbia (down -63.8%), Australia (down -54.9%), Bulgaria (down -48.9%), Moldova (down -41.5%) and Romania (down -30.2%).
Overall, the value of Indonesia’s imported wheat fell by an average -9.7% from all supplying countries since 2024 when wheat purchased cost $3.6 billion.
Global Wheat Imports into Italy
Below are the top suppliers from which Italy imported the highest dollar value worth of wheat during 2025. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2024 to 2025.
- Canada: US$562.2 million (up 29.3% from 2024)
- Hungary: $374.1 million (down -11.7%)
- Romania: $220.5 million (up 65.7%)
- France: $192.8 million (down -0.5%)
- Slovenia: $175.3 million (up 120.2%)
- United States: $171.2 million (down -6.4%)
- Austria: $165.2 million (down -28.3%)
- Greece: $152 million (down -26.7%)
- Ukraine: $140.4 million (down -3.4%)
- Croatia: $105.9 million (up 34.6%)
- Kazakhstan: $99.2 million (up 6.4%)
- Germany: $89 million (up 40%)
- Slovakia: $78.6 million (up 15.3%)
- Moldova: $70.3 million (up 696.1%)
- Türkiye: $63.7 million (down -46.8%)
By value, the listed countries shipped 93.2% of wheat imported by Italy in 2025.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing suppliers of wheat to Italy since 2024 were: Moldova (up 696.1%), Slovenia (up 120.2%), Romania (up 65.7%) and Germany (up 40%).
Countries that experienced declines in the value of their wheat supplied to Italian importers included: Türkiye (down -46.8%), Austria (down -28.3%), Greece (down -26.7%) and Hungary (down -11.7%).
Overall, the value of Italy’s imported wheat grew by an average 8.7% from all supplying countries since 2024 when wheat purchased cost $2.6 billion.
Global Wheat Imports into the Philippines
Below are the top suppliers from which the Philippines imported the highest dollar value worth of wheat during 2025. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2024 to 2025.
- Australia: US$947.6 million (up 31.9% from 2024)
- United States: $752.3 million (down -14%)
- Canada: $196.3 million (up 48.9%)
- Ukraine: $320,000 (down -98.7%)
- Malaysia: $71,000 (down -57.2%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 100% of wheat imported by the Philippines in 2025.
Among the above countries, the growth suppliers of wheat to Philippines since 2024 were: Canada (up 48.9%) and Australia (up 31.9%).
For the year-over-year decliners, see the list above.
Overall, the value of the Philippines’ imported wheat retreated by an average -6.8% from all supplying countries since 2024 when wheat purchased cost $2 billion.
See also Average Wheat Prices Compared for Biggest Wheat Export Countries, Wheat Exports by Country, America’s Top Trading Partners, Corn Exports by Country and Barley Exports by Country
Research Sources:
Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Field Listing: Imports – Commodities. Accessed on June 1, 2026
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on June 1, 2026
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on June 1, 2026
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