Rye Imports by Country

Denmark bought 7,589 tonnes of rye abroad in 2020 and 179,377 tonnes in 2024, climbing from the lower ranks of this table to fourth place in four years. The figures below aggregate FAO Detailed Trade Matrix bilateral records for item Rye, 2020-2024, pairing import quantity in tonnes with import value in current US dollars. The table lists 113 countries; 68 reported a 2024 quantity, and the 2024 listed quantity total is about 1.73 million tonnes. The 2024 country list for rye imports runs from the largest listed quantity to the smallest.

Rye Imports by Country in 2024

Germany was the largest rye importer in the 2024 listed data with 560,273 tonnes, followed by the United States with 289,776 tonnes and Spain with 277,139 tonnes. Denmark ranked fourth with 179,377 tonnes, ahead of the Netherlands (147,038 tonnes), Kazakhstan (51,238 tonnes), Sweden (28,418 tonnes), Latvia (28,324 tonnes), Belgium (25,135 tonnes) and Italy (16,933 tonnes). Germany also led on import value at 123,007,000 US dollars, followed by the United States (91,991,000) and Spain (57,150,000).

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#	Country	Quantity (Tonne)2024	Value (USD)2024
1	Germany DE	560.27K	$123.01M
2	United States US	289.78K	$91.99M
3	Spain ES	277.14K	$57.15M
4	Denmark DK	179.38K	$37.41M
5	Netherlands NL	147.04K	$32.73M
6	Kazakhstan KZ	51.24K	$5.84M
7	Sweden SE	28.42K	$8.19M
8	Latvia LV	28.32K	$5.18M
9	Belgium BE	25.14K	$5.63M
10	Italy IT	16.93K	$4.86M
11	Austria AT	14.62K	$3.82M
12	Portugal PT	13.92K	$3.37M
13	Norway NO	10.7K	$2.92M
14	Czech Republic CZ	10.35K	$3.01M
15	United Kingdom GB	9.6K	$5.36M
16	Japan JP	8.75K	$5.06M
17	Israel IL	8.07K	$1.81M
18	Estonia EE	6.94K	$2.04M
19	Romania RO	5.53K	$1.24M
20	Lithuania LT	5.38K	$1.35M
21	Poland PL	4.85K	$3.57M
22	South Korea KR	3.8K	$5.93M
23	France FR	3.65K	$2.76M
24	Canada CA	3.1K	$968K
25	Switzerland CH	2.74K	$1.12M
26	Slovakia SK	1.97K	$1.04M
27	Uzbekistan UZ	1.49K	$179K
28	Greece GR	1.14K	$280K
29	Hungary HU	1.01K	$372K
30	Slovenia SI	883.45	$617K
31	Serbia RS	784.22	$388K
32	Finland FI	719.9	$1.04M
33	Luxembourg LU	644.64	$446K
34	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	584.52	$144K
35	Iceland IS	359.22	$142K
36	North Macedonia MK	272.77	$87K
37	Croatia HR	268.32	$270K
38	South Africa ZA	203.82	$104K
39	Ireland IE	192.89	$386K
40	Taiwan TW	182.82	$80K
41	Bulgaria BG	170.27	$78K
42	Montenegro ME	108.52	$24K
43	Azerbaijan AZ	79.7	$16K
44	Niger NE	51.13	$17K
45	Colombia CO	42.73	$28K
46	Ukraine UA	42.01	$158K
47	Namibia NA	26.94	$6K
48	Moldova MD	21.3	$22K
49	Togo TG	20	$0
50	Thailand TH	14.93	$10K
51	Chile CL	7.37	$20K
52	Malaysia MY	5.25	$3K
53	Argentina AR	4.25	$9K
54	Lebanon LB	3.1	$2K
55	Eswatini SZ	2.99	$10K
56	Cyprus CY	2.94	$3K
57	Antigua and Barbuda AG	2.91	$18K
58	Zimbabwe ZW	2.04	$8K
59	Barbados BB	1.2	$1K
60	Senegal SN	1	$1K
61	Samoa WS	0.36	$3K
62	Seychelles SC	0.29	$2K
63	Georgia GE	0.2	$0
64	Lesotho LS	0.1	$2K
65	Maldives MV	0.05	$0
66	Cape Verde CV	0.04	$0
67	Malta MT	0.04	$0
68	China CN	0.01	$0

Denmark added 171,788 tonnes between 2020 and 2024, the largest absolute gain in the table in both the 2023-2024 and 2020-2024 comparisons, rising from 7,589 tonnes to 179,377 tonnes. That advance reshaped the middle of the ranking: Denmark now buys more than three-fifths as much as the United States, the second-placed importer.

Germany holds 32.4 percent of the listed 2024 total, about 1.93 times the United States; the top three together hold 65.3 percent, the top five 84.2 percent and the top ten 92.9 percent. European buyers take about 78.7 percent of the listed total (1,359,970 of 1,726,950 tonnes), including Germany, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, Latvia, Belgium, Italy, Austria (14,622 tonnes), Portugal (13,919 tonnes), Norway (10,695 tonnes) and the Czech Republic (10,354 tonnes), with the United States the largest buyer outside Europe and Kazakhstan (51,238 tonnes) leading the rest beyond Europe and North America.

Rye Import Shifts Between 2023 and 2024

Between 2023 and 2024, the common reporter universe (60 countries with data in both years) rose from 1,500,912 tonnes to 1,726,911 tonnes, a change of 225,999 tonnes (15.1 percent). The totals listed for each year were 1,501,332 tonnes (80 reporters) and 1,726,950 tonnes (68 reporters). Denmark added 140,921 tonnes (from 38,456 to 179,377 tonnes, up 366.4 percent), Spain 89,707 tonnes (up 47.9 percent) and Germany 68,873 tonnes (up 14.0 percent). The United States fell 49,551 tonnes (down 14.6 percent), Latvia 48,252 tonnes (down 63.0 percent) and the Czech Republic 17,300 tonnes (down 62.6 percent).

What Four Years Did to Rye Imports

Between 2020 and 2024, the common reporter universe (55 countries with data in both years) fell from 1,938,222 tonnes to 1,725,391 tonnes, a change of -212,831 tonnes (-11.0 percent). The totals listed for each year were 2,019,460 tonnes (82 reporters) and 1,726,950 tonnes (68 reporters); 27 countries reporting in 2020 (81,238 tonnes combined, led by Russia with 77,511 tonnes) did not report in 2024. Germany fell 350,296 tonnes (down 38.5 percent) yet kept the lead by a 1.93 ratio, while Kazakhstan added 43,779 tonnes (from 7,459 to 51,238 tonnes) and Sweden 19,303 tonnes (from 9,115 to 28,418 tonnes, up 211.8 percent).

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#	Country	2020 (Tonne)	2020 (USD)	2021 (Tonne)	2021 (USD)	2022 (Tonne)	2022 (USD)	2023 (Tonne)	2023 (USD)	2024 (Tonne)	2024 (USD)
1	Germany	910.57K	$167.25M	761.85K	$172.27M	353.74K	$118.63M	491.4K	$119.21M	560.27K	$123.01M
2	United States	263.39K	$66.76M	249.66K	$69.25M	272.31K	$93.92M	339.33K	$121.95M	289.78K	$91.99M
3	Spain	338.78K	$63.11M	368.47K	$87.51M	234.8K	$83.88M	187.43K	$44.35M	277.14K	$57.15M
4	Denmark	7.59K	$2.37M	13.58K	$3.67M	38.05K	$12.51M	38.46K	$11.96M	179.38K	$37.41M
5	Netherlands	183.77K	$36.9M	273.72K	$62.56M	180K	$51.5M	158.98K	$44.65M	147.04K	$32.73M
6	Kazakhstan	7.46K	$1.02M	7.36K	$940K	2.74K	$477K	12.75K	$1.32M	51.24K	$5.84M
7	Sweden	9.12K	$3.35M	1.5K	$1.33M	2.59K	$1.64M	15.45K	$7.09M	28.42K	$8.19M
8	Latvia	40.8K	$7.5M	53.08K	$10.98M	39.98K	$11.2M	76.58K	$13.61M	28.32K	$5.18M
9	Belgium	36.23K	$7.49M	31.56K	$8.17M	18.62K	$6.35M	14.11K	$4.32M	25.14K	$5.63M
10	Italy	12.49K	$2.81M	26.69K	$7.1M	19.37K	$7.16M	16.43K	$6.14M	16.93K	$4.86M
11	Austria	7.15K	$1.93M	13.38K	$3.49M	13.96K	$5.48M	10.77K	$3.56M	14.62K	$3.82M
12	Portugal	20.07K	$4.18M	36.45K	$9.44M	25.85K	$8.67M	30.14K	$8.5M	13.92K	$3.37M
13	Norway	9.59K	$2.35M	10.17K	$3.04M	4.11K	$1.76M	3.95K	$1.8M	10.7K	$2.92M
14	Czech Republic	10.55K	$3.29M	7.32K	$2.16M	15.77K	$5.18M	27.65K	$7.26M	10.35K	$3.01M
15	United Kingdom	1.74K	$1.36M	8.41K	$5.97M	10.09K	$5.66M	3.34K	$2.73M	9.6K	$5.36M
16	Japan	20.48K	$7.68M	20.34K	$8.7M	10.85K	$6.11M	9.99K	$6.48M	8.75K	$5.06M
17	Israel	5.37K	$1.03M	20.83K	$4.7M	4.94K	$1.58M	4.68K	$1.25M	8.07K	$1.81M
18	Estonia	5.84K	$1.75M	8.39K	$2.02M	14.57K	$4.4M	10.23K	$3.75M	6.94K	$2.04M
19	Romania	3.34K	$765K	1.44K	$551K	3.84K	$1.22M	4.31K	$1.03M	5.53K	$1.24M
20	Lithuania	8.79K	$1.76M	32.07K	$6.32M	11.32K	$3.3M	3.42K	$1.2M	5.38K	$1.35M
21	Poland	6.55K	$3.53M	48.34K	$11M	19.94K	$6.39M	8.29K	$3.89M	4.85K	$3.57M
22	South Korea	3.62K	$4.73M	3.86K	$4.98M	3.84K	$6.4M	4.55K	$7.16M	3.8K	$5.93M
23	France	3.4K	$2.92M	3.02K	$2.33M	2.26K	$1.69M	3.1K	$2.83M	3.65K	$2.76M
24	Canada	2.92K	$1.13M	1.48K	$534K	1.06K	$366K	1.98K	$655K	3.1K	$968K
25	Switzerland	1.47K	$738K	2.2K	$1.29M	3.01K	$1.8M	1.45K	$1.03M	2.74K	$1.12M
26	Slovakia	1.09K	$520K	674.86	$364K	2.36K	$1.25M	1.95K	$1.07M	1.97K	$1.04M
27	Uzbekistan	-	-	0	$16K	1.57K	$220K	188	$23K	1.49K	$179K
28	Greece	177	$69K	1.17K	$308K	1.26K	$397K	948.93	$227K	1.14K	$280K
29	Hungary	6.36K	$1.48M	6.49K	$1.58M	7.09K	$2.53M	1.87K	$746K	1.01K	$372K
30	Slovenia	1.98K	$420K	2.27K	$689K	2.8K	$1.33M	2.4K	$1.31M	883.45	$617K
31	Serbia	2.08K	$602K	311.52	$262K	557.11	$488K	1.51K	$801K	784.22	$388K
32	Finland	769.89	$985K	586.2	$815K	8.76K	$3.55M	4.82K	$2.25M	719.9	$1.04M
33	Luxembourg	343.83	$299K	407.03	$229K	595.04	$324K	414.04	$389K	644.64	$446K
34	Bosnia and Herzegovina	571.24	$104K	807.98	$210K	743.95	$266K	816.09	$209K	584.52	$144K
35	Iceland	289.03	$80K	270.02	$89K	282.69	$180K	265.5	$121K	359.22	$142K
36	North Macedonia	349.28	$129K	51.86	$54K	188.35	$109K	335.43	$101K	272.77	$87K
37	Croatia	265.38	$168K	1.81K	$652K	1.39K	$813K	919.27	$449K	268.32	$270K
38	South Africa	429.29	$201K	282.3	$142K	257.27	$148K	258.33	$158K	203.82	$104K
39	Ireland	102.61	$174K	4.77K	$1.29M	3.55K	$1.57M	3.27K	$823K	192.89	$386K
40	Taiwan	31	$18K	24	$11K	0.13	$62K	199	$105K	182.82	$80K
41	Bulgaria	157.18	$92K	222.42	$129K	197.49	$109K	155.9	$95K	170.27	$78K
42	Montenegro	80.08	$24K	113.1	$33K	86.61	$39K	118.5	$36K	108.52	$24K
43	Azerbaijan	10.51	$18K	8	$5K	19	$9K	1.46K	$221K	79.7	$16K
44	Niger	-	-	-	-	-	-	19.49	$6K	51.13	$17K
45	Colombia	64.13	$32K	66.39	$34K	47.38	$29K	66.5	$46K	42.73	$28K
46	Ukraine	1.86K	$1.29M	1.41K	$2.37M	116.32	$250K	90.33	$68K	42.01	$158K
47	Namibia	3.01	$1K	2.99	$2K	32.37	$7K	0.76	$1K	26.94	$6K
48	Moldova	41.99	$31K	4.2	$6K	-	-	54.5	$14K	21.3	$22K
49	Togo	0.46	$1K	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	$0
50	Thailand	1.5	$1K	16.13	$12K	3.6	$3K	8.28	$6K	14.93	$10K
51	Chile	67.31	$28K	102.68	$40K	225.04	$163K	-	-	7.37	$20K
52	Malaysia	-	-	0.84	$7K	6.43	$9K	1.18	$1K	5.25	$3K
53	Argentina	-	-	6	$10K	7	$13K	-	-	4.25	$9K
54	Lebanon	1.25	$1K	0.8	$1K	0.91	$1K	1.91	$2K	3.1	$2K
55	Eswatini	4.35	$7K	3.94	$7K	3.64	$7K	4.4	$7K	2.99	$10K
56	Cyprus	2.02	$2K	2.02	$2K	5.49	$5K	6.6	$6K	2.94	$3K
57	Antigua and Barbuda	-	-	0	$0	-	-	-	-	2.91	$18K
58	Zimbabwe	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.04	$8K
59	Barbados	-	-	-	-	0.05	$0	-	-	1.2	$1K
60	Senegal	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	$1K
61	Samoa	-	-	0.45	$1K	0.33	$1K	0.3	$1K	0.36	$3K
62	Seychelles	-	-	0.04	$0	0.35	$2K	0.2	$0	0.29	$2K
63	Georgia	0.09	$0	-	-	0.14	$0	0.12	$0	0.2	$0
64	Lesotho	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1	$0	0.1	$2K
65	Maldives	0.06	$0	1.38	$1K	0.15	$1K	0.1	$0	0.05	$0
66	Cape Verde	0.01	$0	-	-	0	$0	0.01	$0	0.04	$0
67	Malta	-	-	-	-	0	$0	0.02	$0	0.04	$0
68	China	-	-	-	-	0	$0	-	-	0.01	$0
69	Tanzania	-	-	-	-	158.4K	$64.35M	-	-	-	-
70	Türkiye	0.03	$0	27.84K	$6.88M	8.94K	$2.51M	-	-	-	-
71	Belarus	3.45K	$4.29M	2.91K	$3.65M	-	-	-	-	-	-
72	Russia	77.51K	$15.71M	561.85	$1.37M	-	-	-	-	-	-
73	Albania	-	-	-	-	-	-	250.19	$55K	-	-
74	United Arab Emirates	94.23	$138K	148.78	$177K	105.42	$137K	107.02	$117K	-	-
75	Mozambique	0.01	$0	-	-	30.64	$53K	-	-	-	-
76	Brazil	-	-	-	-	30	$26K	-	-	-	-
77	Uruguay	99.8	$61K	49	$26K	48.05	$23K	28	$11K	-	-
78	Mongolia	-	-	3.32K	$738K	-	-	21	$5K	-	-
79	Ivory Coast	11.88	$1K	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
80	Ghana	-	-	0.12	$0	10.87	$9K	-	-	-	-
81	Uganda	17	$2K	-	-	0.35	$0	6.53	$2K	-	-
82	Oman	20.54	$25K	2.24	$3K	2.97	$7K	3.5	$7K	-	-
83	Hong Kong	3.13	$10K	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
84	Kuwait	2.35	$6K	2.78	$4K	-	-	-	-	-	-
85	Nepal	22	$15K	0.01	$0	2.22	$1K	-	-	-	-
86	Singapore	-	-	0.33	$3K	0.82	$1K	2.14	$2K	-	-
87	Rwanda	1.52	$1K	-	-	0.75	$1K	-	-	-	-
88	Panama	0.58	$1K	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
89	Gambia	-	-	0.03	$0	0.32	$0	0.56	$0	-	-
90	New Zealand	-	-	0.39	$4K	-	-	0.4	$3K	-	-
91	Madagascar	-	-	-	-	0.2	$0	-	-	-	-
92	Kyrgyzstan	0.16	$0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
93	Costa Rica	-	-	0.11	$0	-	-	-	-	-	-
94	Bahrain	0.75	$1K	0.62	$1K	0.1	$1K	0.09	$0	-	-
95	Grenada	-	-	-	-	0.8	$1K	0.08	$0	-	-
96	Trinidad and Tobago	0	$0	0.02	$0	0.01	$0	0.07	$0	-	-
97	French Polynesia	0.59	$1K	0.07	$0	0.06	$0	-	-	-	-
98	Guyana	-	-	-	-	0.06	$0	-	-	-	-
99	Bhutan	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.05	$0	-	-
100	Indonesia	-	-	0.03	$0	0.05	$0	-	-	-	-
101	Zambia	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.04	$0	-	-
102	Kenya	0.03	$0	4.3	$5K	25.14	$7K	0.03	$0	-	-
103	Morocco	0.62	$1K	-	-	0.08	$0	0.03	$0	-	-
104	Angola	-	-	0	$0	0.02	$0	-	-	-	-
105	Armenia	-	-	-	-	1.01	$0	0.02	$0	-	-
106	Botswana	1.91	$7K	0.1	$0	0.11	$0	0.01	$0	-	-
107	Jamaica	0.05	$0	0.02	$0	0.01	$0	0.01	$0	-	-
108	Timor-Leste	0.01	$0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
109	Bahamas	0.01	$0	0.11	$0	2.14	$3K	0	$1K	-	-
110	Egypt	0	$764K	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
111	Jordan	0	$2K	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
112	Sri Lanka	4	$2K	-	-	0	$0	-	-	-	-
113	Vietnam	-	-	0	$1K	0	$1K	-	-	-	-

Methodology

This table sums FAO Detailed Trade Matrix bilateral flows into yearly reporter totals for item Rye, import quantity and import value, 2020-2024. The rye imports series displays quantities below 1,000 tonnes to two decimals and larger quantities as whole tonnes; its values are full current US dollars without inflation adjustment. The 2024 rye imports ranking and shares use 2024 listed quantities; values are not used for ranking. In the rye imports data, zero means a reported nil or negligible flow; an empty cell means no quantity was reported. The rye imports change uses overlapping reporters only; countries entering or leaving the listed set are shown separately. Partner-derived gap filling and food-aid additions can apply, and unreconciled bilateral pairs mean an export entry and its mirror import may not match.