Visualizing the World’s Flower Bouquet Export Market
Visualizing the World’s Flower Bouquet Export Market
For many, flower bouquets are the go-to gift choice when congratulating a colleague, visiting an ailing relative, or simply showing love and kindness to partners and friends.
And the global popularity of these carefully-arranged and vividly-colored bundles has led to the creation of a billion-dollar flower bouquet market. And demand for beautiful bouquets has kept growing, with global flower bouquet exports in 2021 reaching $11 billion—which is a 30.2% rise since 2017.
Louis Lugas Wicaksono uses data from World’s Top Exports to highlight the spread of this industry. In this image, he shows the flower bouquet exports across different countries in 2021.
Countries Trading the Most Flower Bouquets
Far at the top of the list and best known for their tulips, the Netherlands dominated the flower bouquet export industry in 2021.
| Rank | Country | Continent | Flower Bouquet Exports (2021 USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Netherlands | Europe | $5.7B |
| 2 |  Colombia | America | $1.7B |
| 3 |  Ecuador | America | $927.3M |
| 4 |  Kenya | Africa | $725.5M |
| 5 |  Ethiopia | Africa | $254.5M |
| 6 |  Belgium | Europe | $150.0M |
| 7 |  Italy | Europe | $140.9M |
| 8 |  China | Asia | $124.6M |
| 9 |  Malaysia | Asia | $90.5M |
| 10 |  Canada | America | $82.0M |
| 11 |  Israel | Asia | $77.5M |
| 12 |  South Africa | Africa | $70.4M |
| 13 |  Spain | Europe | $69.6M |
| 14 |  Germany | Europe | $65.8M |
| 15 |  Turkey | Asia | $59.4M |
 Rest of the world | $735.2M |
The small European nation exported $5.7 billion worth of bouquets in 2021, accounting for over half of global flower bouquet trade. This dominance comes from centuries of being the world’s largest producer of flowers and being a floral (Read more...)