What does United Kingdom produce and export?

What does United Kingdom produce?

What does United Kingdom export?

United Kingdom's own tracked-export mix

Unlike the chart above, this treemap sizes each commodity by its share of United Kingdom's own $52.5 billion of tracked exports, not by world trade. Crude oil alone is 33% of it. See the full export dependency report for how United Kingdom compares with other countries.

Top-ten importer of

• Apples: #2, 5.3% of world imports, $427.3 million (2024)
• Gold: #2, 14% of world imports, $83.1 billion (2024)
• Sawnwood: #3, 5.9% of world imports, $2.3 billion (2024)
• Silver: #3, 13% of world imports, $4.2 billion (2024)
• Sisal: #3, 6.2% of world imports, $42.7 million (2024)
• Tea: #3, 5% of world imports, $381.3 million (2024)
• Yams: #3, 8.1% of world imports, $20.6 million (2024)
• Cheese: #4, 5.8% of world imports, $2.6 billion (2024)
• Chicken: #4, 5.7% of world imports, $2.1 billion (2024)
• Grapes: #4, 7.2% of world imports, $948.2 million (2024)
• Honey: #4, 5.1% of world imports, $118 million (2024)
• Mangoes: #4, 6.4% of world imports, $266.7 million (2024)
• Tomatoes: #4, 6.5% of world imports, $782.7 million (2024)
• Iridium: #5, 7.9% of world imports, $180.5 million (2024)
• Palladium: #5, 7.3% of world imports, $956.1 million (2024)
• Plywood: #5, 3.8% of world imports, $642.8 million (2024)
• Rhodium: #5, 9.3% of world imports, $699.1 million (2024)
• Avocados: #6, 3.6% of world imports, $336.6 million (2024)
• Cassava: #6, 4.2% of world imports, $144.3 million (2024)
• Lamb: #6, 4.5% of world imports, $407.7 million (2024)
• Platinum: #6, 8% of world imports, $1.2 billion (2024)
• Titanium: #6, 4.5% of world imports, $142.4 million (2024)
• Wool: #6, 1.4% of world imports, $40.9 million (2024)
• Cobalt: #7, 1.9% of world imports, $90.2 million (2024)
• Jute: #7, 1.6% of world imports, $3.4 million (2024)
• Lead: #7, 4.8% of world imports, $423.1 million (2024)
• Bananas: #8, 3.9% of world imports, $615.2 million (2024)
• Canola: #8, 3.2% of world imports, $428.3 million (2024)
• Cinnamon: #8, 2.2% of world imports, $18.3 million (2024)
• Ginger: #8, 4% of world imports, $52 million (2024)
• Lithium: #8, 1% of world imports, $36.5 million (2024)
• Olive oil: #8, 3.4% of world imports, $547.9 million (2024)
• Silk: #8, 1.8% of world imports, $6.6 million (2024)
• Tungsten: #8, 1% of world imports, $2.7 million (2024)
• Dates: #9, 4.1% of world imports, $101.2 million (2024)
• Molybdenum: #9, 5.2% of world imports, $423 million (2024)
• Natural gas: #9, 3.6% of world imports, $17.3 billion (2024)
• Oranges: #9, 3.5% of world imports, $192.5 million (2024)
• Peanuts: #9, 3.1% of world imports, $144.9 million (2024)
• Plantains: #9, 3.2% of world imports, $35.8 million (2024)
• Pork: #9, 3.3% of world imports, $1.2 billion (2024)
• Quinoa: #9, 2.4% of world imports, $7 million (2024)
• Vanilla: #9, 1.9% of world imports, $8.8 million (2024)
• Fishmeal: #10, 2.5% of world imports, $233 million (2024)
• Linseed: #10, 1.4% of world imports, $17.4 million (2024)
• Pepper: #10, 2.5% of world imports, $153.4 million (2024)
• Pineapples: #10, 2.9% of world imports, $82.3 million (2024)
• Silicon: #10, 3.9% of world imports, $156.6 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.

United Kingdom commodity by commodity

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

• Iridium #3 exporter
• Lamb #3 exporter
• Lead #4 exporter
• Palladium #3 exporter
• Platinum #2 exporter
• Rhodium #2 exporter
• Salmon #4 exporter
• Silver #2 exporter
• Wool #5 producer

United Kingdom in the pattern reports

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

What United Kingdom uses

United Kingdom had about 69 million people and a food supply of 3,435 kilocalories per person a day in FAO's 2023 food balance sheets. Its eight largest supplies among the commodities tracked there:

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

Who supplies United Kingdom

• Single-supplier markets. United Kingdom buys half or more of its imports from one country in 8 of 42 import markets of $250 million or more, among them natural gas from Norway (75%, $17.3 billion); salmon from Norway (76%, $611 million); olive oil from Spain (67%, $548 million); beef from Ireland (71%, $467 million); soybeans from Brazil (58%, $463 million); lead from Australia (90%, $423 million). Import dependency.
• A new largest supplier. silver: Kazakhstan (24% in 2022) to China (36% in 2024). Supplier shifts.

Downloads and citation

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

Data updated 22 October 2026.

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