Different sorts of pasta on a wooden board.

In 2024, EU countries produced 6.0 million tonnes of pasta, worth €9.1 billion. Compared with 2023, the value of pasta production increased by 3%, while the volume produced fell by 5%.

More than two-thirds (69%) of all pasta was produced in Italy, amounting to 4.1 million tonnes. Spain followed at a distance, with 6% (367 000 tonnes), ahead of Germany with 5% (290 000 tonnes).

EU pasta production in 2024 (volume in tonnes and % of the EU total). Chart. See link to the full dataset below.

Source dataset: ds-056120

More than half of pasta exports traded within the EU

In 2024, EU countries exported 2.9 million tonnes of pasta and imported 1.7 million.

Italy led again, exporting 2.2 million tonnes of pasta, or more than three-quarters of all exports (77%). Spain was the second largest exporter with 131 000 tonnes, or 5% of the total.

Most pasta exports (55%) were sent to other EU countries, while the remaining 45% went to destinations outside the EU.

The top non-EU export destinations were the United Kingdom and the United States, taking in 25% and 23% of all pasta exported outside the EU, respectively.

On the import side, Germany was the top importer of pasta among EU countries, with 468 000 tonnes or 28% of all imports, ahead of France with 372 000 tonnes or 22% of the total.

EU trade in pasta in 2024 (volume in tonnes and % of EU members' total). Chart. See link to the full dataset below.

Source dataset: ds-045409 

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Methodological notes

  • The figures on pasta production presented in this article are a sum of 2 PRODCOM products: 
    • 10731150 Uncooked pasta (excluding containing eggs, stuffed or otherwise prepared) 
    • 10731130 Uncooked pasta, containing eggs (excluding stuffed or otherwise prepared) 
  • The figures of pasta import and export are the sum of following goods from the Combined nomenclature (CN): 
    • 19021100 Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared, containing eggs 
    • 19021910 Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared, not containing common wheat flour or meal or eggs 
    • 19021990 Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared, containing common wheat flour or meal but no eggs 
  • Due to quasi-transit trade, adding intra-EU trade and extra-EU trade can result in double counting. For example, pasta imported from Turkey via the Netherlands is cleared by customs for free circulation before being dispatched to Germany. In this case, the same pasta would be counted as imports both by the Netherlands and Germany. Specifically, it would appear in the Netherlands' extra-EU imports from Turkey and its intra-EU exports to Germany, while also being recorded in Germany's intra-EU imports from the Netherlands.

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