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Brazil has the highest export volume of sugar of any country, at about **** million metric tons as of 2025/26. The second largest sugar exporter, Thailand, had significantly less export volume compared to Brazil, at about million metric tons of sugar that year.

Sugar production in Brazil

As well as being the top exporter of sugar, Brazil is also the top producer of sugarcane in the world by a large margin. In 2024, Brazil produced some ****million metric tons of sugarcane, almost twice as much as India, the second largest producer. Once the sugarcane is refined into pure sugar, Brazil produced nearly ** million metric tons of processed sugar in 2025/2026. This figure has fluctuated over the last several years. 

Global sugar consumption

Between 2010 and 2023, global sugar consumption has increased by over million metric tons, from 156 million metric tons to around *** million metric tons. In 2025/2026, most sugar was consumed in India, the European Union, and China, in that order. Though China has a larger population than India, India consumed nearly twice the volume of sugar of China in that year.