Honey market worldwide and in the U.S. - statistics & facts

Market leaders

As of 2020, India is the country with the highest number of beehives, at around 12.2 million, followed by mainland China and Turkey. In comparison, the United States only has about 2.7 million beehives. Despite the huge number of hives in India, China outstrips India in terms of production volume, producing about 458,000 metric tons of honey in that same year. Turkey, the next leading producer, produced only about a quarter of that volume

Though China is the leading country for production, New Zealand also has the highest export value of natural honey at about 330 million U.S. dollars, consisting of 14.4 percent of the overall export value. The United States is the leading importer of honey worldwide, purchasing about 441 million U.S. dollars of honey from other countries in 2020.

U.S. honey market

The value of honey production in the United States has seen some wide fluctuations since 2000 but has an overall positive trend. North Dakota is by far the top honey producing state, producing around 28 million pounds of honey in 2021, more than twice as much as the runner up, South Dakota. However, South Dakota had the largest stock of honey of any U.S. state in that year. In 2021, the average price of honey in the U.S. was 2.54 U.S. dollars per pound, up from up 2.1 U.S. dollars per pound in the previous year.

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