Romania ranks in the top ten producers of 1 commodity: sunflower oil (#8, 2.5% of world output in 2023). It is a top-ten exporter of canola (#5, 5.2% of world export value in 2024), corn (#7, 1.8% of world export value in 2024), silk (#7, 1.6% of world export value in 2024), wheat (#7, 4.3% of world export value in 2024), barley (#8, 5.3% of world export value in 2024).
Share of world production, 2023. Countries with no reported production are unshaded.
Romania's largest commodity exports by value. Each bar's share is that commodity's share of world trade in it, not its share of Romania's own exports — the two are unrelated and shown so a bar near 100% marks a commodity Romania dominates globally rather than one it merely exports a lot of.
Unlike the chart above, this treemap sizes each commodity by its share of Romania's own $6 billion of tracked exports, not by world trade. Wheat alone is 41% of it. See the full export dependency report for how Romania compares with other countries.
Pork: #10, 3.1% of world imports, $1.1 billion (2024)
Sunflower oil: #10, 2.8% of world imports, $526.9 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.
Romania commodity by commodity
One page for each commodity where Romania is a top-five producer or exporter with at least 3% of the world total.
What the cross-commodity reports under Patterns say about Romania, computed from the same data as this page.
What Romania uses
Romania had about 19 million people and a food supply of 3,649 kilocalories per person a day in FAO's 2023 food balance sheets. Its eight largest supplies among the commodities tracked there:
Largest domestic supplies of tracked commodities in Romania, 2023
FAO reports a negative domestic supply for Romania's canola (−292 thousand tonnes; production 1.8 million tonnes, imports 203 thousand tonnes, exports 2.4 million 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 Romania
Single-supplier markets. Romania buys half or more of its imports from one country in 3 of 12 import markets of $250 million or more, among them crude oil from Kazakhstan (54%, $4.7 billion); natural gas from Bulgaria (77%, $1.1 billion); sunflower oil from Ukraine (90%, $527 million). Import dependency.
A new largest supplier. crude oil: Russia (46% in 2022) to Kazakhstan (54% in 2024). Supplier shifts.
Suppliers losing. Russia in crude oil (46% to <0.1%, −46 points).
Downloads and citation
This country's rankings as JSON · PDF summary. Cite as: Commodity Origins, "What does Romania produce and export?", https://commodityorigins.com/countries/ROU/ (CC BY 4.0).
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