What does Spain produce and export?

What does Spain produce?

What does Spain export?

Spain's own tracked-export mix

Unlike the chart above, this treemap sizes each commodity by its share of Spain's own $29.9 billion of tracked exports, not by world trade. Olive oil alone is 23% of it. See the full export dependency report for how Spain compares with other countries.

Top-ten importer of

• Almonds: #2, 7.3% of world imports, $381.2 million (2024)
• Feldspar: #2, 18% of world imports, $123.4 million (2024)
• Avocados: #3, 5.9% of world imports, $553.7 million (2024)
• Olive oil: #3, 9.5% of world imports, $1.5 billion (2024)
• Potatoes: #3, 7.9% of world imports, $565.5 million (2024)
• Zirconium: #3, 9.3% of world imports, $160.1 million (2024)
• Beryllium: #4, 1% of world imports, $269,546 (2024)
• Shrimp: #4, 4.6% of world imports, $1.5 billion (2024)
• Soybeans: #4, 3.1% of world imports, $2.5 billion (2024)
• Copper: #5, 2.4% of world imports, $2.6 billion (2024)
• Sunflower oil: #5, 4.8% of world imports, $896 million (2024)
• Barley: #6, 3.6% of world imports, $331.7 million (2024)
• Coffee: #6, 3.3% of world imports, $1.1 billion (2024)
• Corn: #6, 4% of world imports, $1.9 billion (2024)
• Oats: #6, 4.7% of world imports, $52.1 million (2024)
• Pepper: #6, 3.4% of world imports, $205.7 million (2024)
• Pineapples: #6, 5% of world imports, $139.7 million (2024)
• Salmon: #6, 7.2% of world imports, $1.2 billion (2024)
• Bauxite: #7, 1% of world imports, $117.1 million (2024)
• Cheese: #7, 4.6% of world imports, $2.1 billion (2024)
• Palm kernel oil: #7, 6.3% of world imports, $68.6 million (2024)
• Pistachios: #7, 3.8% of world imports, $131 million (2024)
• Sorghum: #7, 1% of world imports, $27.2 million (2024)
• Steel: #7, 3.6% of world imports, $2.5 billion (2024)
• Uranium: #7, <0.1% of world imports, $31,526 (2024)
• Wheat: #7, 3.2% of world imports, $1.8 billion (2024)
• Coconut oil: #8, 2.8% of world imports, $220 million (2024)
• Crude oil: #8, 2.7% of world imports, $35.6 billion (2024)
• Honey: #8, 3% of world imports, $70 million (2024)
• Mangoes: #8, 3.2% of world imports, $131.9 million (2024)
• Orange juice: #8, 2.7% of world imports, $49.7 million (2024)
• Plantains: #8, 3.3% of world imports, $36.3 million (2024)
• Quinoa: #8, 2.7% of world imports, $8 million (2024)
• Sisal: #8, 3.6% of world imports, $24.9 million (2024)
• Hazelnuts: #9, 2.1% of world imports, $48.8 million (2024)
• Tomatoes: #9, 2.2% of world imports, $267 million (2024)
• Chickpeas: #10, 2.3% of world imports, $57.1 million (2024)
• Cocoa: #10, 3% of world imports, $564.2 million (2024)
• Natural rubber: #10, 2.4% of world imports, $408.2 million (2024)
• Oranges: #10, 3% of world imports, $167.5 million (2024)

Sources: FAOSTAT (crops and livestock), USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (minerals), Energy Institute Statistical Review (energy) for production; CEPII BACI for trade. Ranks count only the commodities on this site.

Spain commodity by commodity

One page for each commodity where Spain is a top-five producer or exporter with at least 3% of the world total.

• Almonds #3 producer, #2 exporter
• Avocados #5 exporter
• Fluorspar #4 exporter
• Grapes #3 producer
• Lamb #5 exporter
• Olive oil #1 producer, #1 exporter
• Orange juice #5 exporter
• Oranges #1 exporter
• Pepper #4 exporter
• Pork #4 producer, #2 exporter
• Quinoa #3 exporter
• Strontium #2 producer
• Tomatoes #4 exporter
• Tungsten #2 exporter
• Zinc #1 exporter

Spain in the pattern reports

What the cross-commodity reports under Patterns say about Spain, computed from the same data as this page.

What Spain uses

Spain had about 48 million people and a food supply of 3,377 kilocalories per person a day in FAO's 2023 food balance sheets. Its eight largest supplies among the commodities tracked there:

FAO reports a negative domestic supply for Spain's tea (−35 thousand tonnes; production 0 tonnes, imports 13 thousand tonnes, exports 49 thousand tonnes), meaning exports exceed production plus imports in the year. These are not counted as use and are left out of the table above.

FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets. Per-person rank counts countries of at least 1 million people. See consumption and self-sufficiency.

Who supplies Spain

• Single-supplier markets. Spain buys half or more of its imports from one country in 9 of 34 import markets of $250 million or more, among them soybeans from Brazil (71%, $2.5 billion); wheat from Ukraine (54%, $1.8 billion); salmon from Norway (53%, $1.2 billion); sunflower oil from Ukraine (66%, $896 million); palm oil from Indonesia (51%, $643 million); potatoes from France (64%, $565 million). Import dependency.
• A new largest supplier. crude oil: Nigeria (15% in 2022) to United States (17% in 2024); natural gas: United States (32% in 2022) to Algeria (36% in 2024). Supplier shifts.
• Suppliers losing. United Kingdom in gold (55% to 3.6%, −51 points).

Downloads and citation

This country's rankings as JSON · PDF summary. Cite as: Commodity Origins, "What does Spain produce and export?", https://commodityorigins.com/countries/ESP/ (CC BY 4.0).

Data updated 22 October 2026.

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